Exam 16: Social Thinking and Social Influence

Meaningful evaluations are based on comparing yourself with people of similar backgrounds, abilities, and circumstances.

Zimbardo interpreted the results of his simulated prison study as an indication of the

If you were sitting alone in your dorm room, picking your nose, and a stranger entered the room, you would probably stop picking your nose due to which form of social influence?

Every day we must guess how people will act, often from small shreds of evidence. We do this through a form of social cognition called

If one person in a group begins to resist the orders of a legitimate authority, other people are more likely to

If a politician wants to create favorable public attitudes concerning a controversial issue that he or she supports, the politician should

If you vote for candidates who support environmental causes, this represents which component of your attitude?

Regarding attitudes, which of the following statements is FALSE?

When a friend tells you that she will be vacationing at a particular beach resort, you immediately tell her that you would never go back to that beach resort because on one trip it rained the whole time and the other you got sunburned and sick from the seafood; thus, your negative attitude regarding this beach resort was acquired through chance conditioning.

Mrs. Allen sees a student, Tionna, leaving school. She believes that Tionna is "sneaking out" because she prefers to spend time at the mall with her friends rather than leaving due to a family emergency. Mrs. Allen is attributing Tionna's behavior to a(n)

In a study on social loafing, people played tug-of-war while blindfolded. Compared to when they thought they were pulling in a group, people showed which of the following behaviors when they thought they were pulling alone?

The person who agrees to a small request initially is more likely, in order to be consistent, to comply later with a larger demand. This describes the

Since you have no objective standards for rating the difficulty of the psychology test you just took, you ask other students who also took the test whether they thought the test was "hard," which illustrates your use of __________.

We are more likely to comply with a request if

Jana wants to learn to be more self-assertive. Her first step will be to convince herself that she has the three basic rights, which are the right to refuse, to right a wrong, and to __________.

To prevent getting flustered in an actual situation, it is essential to continue practicing assertive behavior until your responses become almost automatic. This important principle is called __________.

Threats of ridicule or rejection for nonconformity are referred to, collectively, as

In the sidewalk experiment, various numbers of people stood on a busy New York City street and, on cue, began looking at a sixth-floor window across the street. Soon many of the people walking on the street stopped and looked up at the window. Which of the following factors tended to sway the most people to stop and look up at the window?

Stevie has had three professors, each of whose last names began with the letter W . Each time, Stevie did not enjoy the class and made a poor grade. Therefore, he only selects classes in which the professors' names do not begin with W's . Stevie's negative attitude and avoidance of professors whose last names begin with W's are due to which of the six ways of acquiring an attitude?

An important difference between brainwashing and other types of persuasion is that brainwashing