Exam 10: Social Psychology

According to a recent national poll on racial prejudice, Canadians are becoming

When we change or adopt a behaviour or an attitude to be more consistent with the attitudes or behaviours of others around us, we demonstrate

The four components of attitude are thought, feelings, intuition, and sensation.

What is cognitive dissonance?

When searching for a mate, the majority of people look for someone with complementary needs.

That aggression results from blocking or interfering with the attainment of a goal is the central idea behind the

Sometimes minorities and others who have not been responsible for a frustrating situation become targets of displaced aggression-a practice known as scapegoating.

Attitudes are to ________ as behaviours are to ________.

A source of communication is most persuasive when the source is credible, attractive, and likable.

Which of the following statements is true about abused children and their parents?

Both Sigmund Freud and Konrad Lorenz believed that aggression

Which of the following are the components of persuasion?

Which of the following best describes cognitive dissonance?

People will contribute more, or work harder in a group in which

According to the realistic conflict theory, prejudice develops because

Research has shown that liking for others tends to increase as they become more familiar. This is the reason why ________ is an important variable in interpersonal attraction.

In a situational attribution, behaviour is attributed to a personal trait, motive or attitude.

When a person performs an action simply because an authority figure has given an order, the term that describes the behaviour is

Geneva may be making the fundamental attribution error when she says that Pauline failed the test because

Prejudice consists of behaviours toward a group, while discrimination is the attitudes or beliefs about a group.