Exam 15: Social Psychology

Which of the following is true about ratings of highly feminized faces by men and women?

All of the following are examples of symptoms of groupthink, EXCEPT:

All of the following are tendencies of feminine faces, EXCEPT:

In the age of the Internet, much of our self-presentation activities involve

The process of explaining the cause of your own or another's behavior is known as

According to Robert Zajonc, it is adaptive to be cautious around unfamiliar objects and people, and to be more open to familiar stimuli and individuals. This is the hypothesized basis for the

Researchers that study the limits of our understanding of the _______________________ point to the fact that "dispositions" and "situations" are so intricately interwoven that it may be scientifically useless to separate them.

As in the case of the Asch experiments, people are sometimes motivated to conform to avoid embarrassment or obtain approval from the group. This is called

The sex differences in facial features and other aspects of the body are collectively referred to as

Computer-mediated communication is most beneficial to adolescent boys because it provides a safe place to experiment with

In contrast to early research on the bystander effect, the more dangerous the circumstance and the more clear-cut the physical danger,

Studies of energy conservation attitudes among Californians illustrated that people are often unaware of the normative influences to conform in their own lives.

An attitude is more likely to predict your behavior if

People often find themselves drawn to others-for friendship, romance, or sex-for reasons that may not be immediately apparent to either person. This is called

Though groupthink is a risk in any situation in which a group must make an important decision under pressure, it has not historically affected political judgments.

Leon Festinger believed that humans were motivated to compare themselves with others in order to enhance their own self-images.

In his classic experiment on conformity, Solomon Asch asked naïve participants to perform this task in the presence of other individuals that were actually confederates of the experimenter.

Cross-cultural studies of physical attractiveness illustrate that all of the following aspects of attractiveness vary according to culture, EXCEPT:

The __________________ phenomenon describes the fact that the more people involved in a collective endeavor in which it is difficult to assess each person's individual contribution, the less effort each is willing to expend.

An attitude is a "feeling" experience, because it indicates like or dislike. A belief, in contrast, is a cognitive experience.