Exam 15: Social Psychology

A teacher assigns his class a group project but wants to minimize social loafing. Which of the following strategies might he employ?

A piano student mastered a difficult piece of music after many hours of practice at home. At his next lesson, he played the piece for his piano teacher. He then performed it in front of an enthusiastic audience, and finally, in front of a critical panel of judges. According to the theory of social facilitation, which of these was likely to be his worst performance?

An angry father insists his teenage son wrecked the car because he is always careless. This explanation is an example of

Which of the following people is likely to have the highest testosterone level?

What can be concluded from Solomon Asch's series of experiments in which participants were asked to judge the lengths of lines?

The children you are baby-sitting for left toys all over the playroom, and you want their help cleaning up. Which approach is least likely to be effective?

Environmental explanations for aggression are least able to account for

The key finding of research on obedience to authority is that

Homeowners were asked to display a small "Be a Safe Driver" sign in their windows. Later, they were asked to install a large, ugly "Drive Carefully" sign on their front lawns. How likely would they be to agree, compared to people who had never been asked to display the small sign?

What is the impact of pornography?

Refer to the table below, showing results of Stanley Milgram's famous experiment. -Based on the data, _______ percent of participants fully obeyed the experimenter's commands, continuing with the experiment until it reached the 450-volt level.

Social loafing is least likely to occur when

Increased testosterone secretion is related to all of the following except

A person who _______ is most likely to engage in effort justification.

Refer to the table below, showing results of Stanley Milgram's famous experiment. -What is one potential criticism of Milgram's experiment?

People from individualistic cultures are more likely than people from collectivistic cultures to

Refer to the figure below. A research participant is shown the image above. She is asked to indicate which line from the group on the right matches the first line shown. If she is alone, she will choose _______, if she is in a group of six people who all choose B, she is most likely to choose _______.

Refer to the table below, showing results of Stanley Milgram's famous experiment. -Suppose that researchers repeated Milgram's study with 50 new volunteers. Based on the data above, it is likely that the majority of the new volunteers would

Which of the following people would have the greatest likelihood of being sentenced to death?

When your aunt states that a criminal should be locked up "because that's what he has coming to him," she is advocating which function of punishment?