Exam 15: Social Psychology

_____________ motivations and influences to conform reflect the desire to obtain approval from the group or avoid embarrassment-as in the case of participants in the Asch experiment.

The details of the Kitty Genovese murder in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, gave rise to interest in this social psychological phenomenon.

In studies of cheater detection using the Wasson selection task, which variant of the task was easiest for undergraduates to perform?

The _________________ includes overestimation of your own contributions, and your positive attributions.

This kind of influence on conformity is based on a rational desire to seek realistic information about some situation from the group and adjust behavior accordingly.

The main problem with research on the fundamental attribution error is that

The deliberate attempt to exterminate an entire people, which is often present in intergroup conflicts, is called

Laying aside a powerful, immediate desire, response, or goal in the service of more important, overriding long-term goals is called

The fact that people who exhibit self-control in one situation often exhibit self-control in other situation is evidence that self-control is

According to research, age affects physical attractiveness such that,

A(n) _______________ is a "feeling" experience, because it indicates like or dislike. A(n) _______________, in contrast, is a cognitive experience.

In the Kitty Genovese investigation, it was later found that no one watched anything for anywhere near as long as half an hour. The first attack lasted only a few moments.

Women tend to rate highly masculinized faces as more attractive in all of the following contexts, EXCEPT:

According to evolutionary psychologists, a large degree of facial symmetry may be evidence that

Seventy percent of heterosexual couples in a nationally representative sample interviewed in 2009 reported that they met over the Internet, with online dating accounting for the majority of these meetings.

These explanations describe how the effects of some behavior would have benefited the survival and reproduction of human beings over evolutionary time and therefore evolved through natural selection.

In a study of the normative influence on energy conservation among a group of Californians, this was the best predictor of a person's self-reported conservation efforts.

All of the following are results from longitudinal studies of studies of self-control, EXCEPT:

When attractiveness researchers speak of the averageness of a face, they are actually talking about

The human motivation to feel like a "valuable member of a meaningful universe" as a way of transcending and defeating death is a part of