Exam 10: Social Psychology

Your province's legislature wants to raise the age for getting a driver's permit to the age of 19 to decrease accidents, cut insurance costs, and save gasoline. Which group is most likely to have the strongest attitude against the passage of this law?

Jamila is a 24-year-old aide in a home for the elderly. When she first started working, she thought that all elderly people were alike. Her attitude about elderly people is best explained by

The social learning theory of aggression emphasizes all of the following except that

In Zimbardo's experiment, one group of normal people tormented another group of normal people because of

Aggression in response to frustration is almost always aimed at the cause of the frustration.

Our overall impression or judgment of another person is influenced more by the first information we receive about the person than by information that comes later. This phenomenon is called the

Describe the effects of acting altruistically on the actor.

Attributions try to

The critical aspect of first impressions is that they

What is the relationship between prejudice and discrimination?

Which of the following is an example of the matching hypothesis?

The foot-in-the-door technique involves

Which best describes the effects of the presence of others on performance?

Which of the following biases seems to stem from a desire to protect our self-esteem and look good in the eyes of others?

The halo effect is a glow or feeling that surrounds highly attractive people.

If members of a group are disposed to make the group be more cohesive, then they are more likely to make decisions based on solidarity or uniformity rather than objectively evaluating solutions.

Ezio and his friends are constantly teased by a group of boys in his grade four class, who make comments about their clothes, their haircuts, and their behaviour in class. Teasing by this group typifies the actions of

What percentage of the subjects in Milgram's original obedience experiment administered what they thought was the maximum 450-volt shock?

Which of the following is an example of the mere-exposure effect?

Which of the following statements regarding the effects of social facilitation is most supported by the research evidence?