Exam 12: Social Psychology

Imagine you are recruiting people to volunteer to do part-time tutoring of elementary school kids.Dissonance theory would suggest that a successful strategy to enhance the commitment of the volunteers would be to pay them:

Jayden has just received a large bill for his recent surgery and a letter from his insurance company denying coverage for the surgery.Jayden has no idea how he will pay the doctor's bill,and he feels angry and helpless.According to the cognitive-neoassociationistic model,Jayden is most likely to respond to his mail aggressively if he:

A group of microbiology students have been working on a semester-long project that will determine 50 percent of their course grade.A week before the project is due,they realize they have made a critical error and their results are useless.One member of the group argues strongly that they should falsify their results so they will be able to turn in a successful project.Though all the other members have doubts,none of them feels comfortable saying so.All the members ignore the possibility of being caught and convince themselves to falsify the report.This scenario is an example of:

White participants in a psychology study were asked to decide,as rapidly as possible,whether an object that they had been briefly shown was a gun or a tool.Before seeing the picture,they were briefly shown a picture of either a black face or a white face.When the subjects saw a black face,they:

Whose behavior is LEAST likely to be prevented by an antidepressant that raises levels of serotonin?

The Stanford prison study illustrates that people:

Given what you know about the role of gender in creating ingroup/outgroup biases,you could predict that the largest number of close friendship groups would be found in:

Kate comes from a very small town where everyone is white and there is a great deal of prejudice against people of color.When Kate first meets her college roommate,she is very upset to discover that she is black.Kate quickly discovers that her roommate is smart,funny,and empathetic.Kate starts to like her roommate quite a lot,but feels anxious and tense whenever they are together.Kate is experiencing:

In making causal attributions,people from Eastern cultures differ from those in Western cultures in that they:

Professor Marcus believes that student athletes are lazy and academically incompetent.Every time she has an athlete in one of her classes who is a poor student,she takes note of and remembers it.Every time she has an athlete in her class who is an excellent student,she ignores it.Through this mechanism,Professor Marcus _____ her stereotype of student athletes.

Research suggests that one of the best ways to make a romantic relationship work is to:

Christi will be starting college in the fall.She is filling out the questionnaire that will be used to match roommates.To maximize the probability that she and her roommate will become friends,Christi ought to:

Catalina has gotten an entirely new haircut that she is eager to show her boyfriend.A social psychologist might advise her that initially her boyfriend is likely to:

Human beings have evolved as social animals who live in groups,in part because:

The behavior of participants in Milgram's obedience studies is distressing.Why might it also be adaptive?

Creativity is undermined when extrinsic motivation replaces intrinsic motivation.Which concept in social psychology could provide the best account for this finding?

Who is most likely to be involved in a happy and satisfying relationship?

Kwamie is interviewing for a job as a software engineer.He has been warned that the person doing the interviewing does not like African Americans and may be hard on him because of his race.Though Kwamie is determined not to let this warning affect him,he performs poorly during the interview.Research suggests that Kwamie may be:

In the medical field,interns and residents are required to work such long shifts that they are perpetually exhausted and do not function optimally.Dissonance theory would suggest that a possible motivation for this policy is to:

Shared goals that require cooperation can result in reduced: