Exam 10: Social Psychology

According to the contact hypothesis, which of the following factors increases the chances that intergroup contact will reduce prejudice?

After Sasha agreed to baby-sit for her next-door neighbours, she was informed that their three nephews would be there, too. This is an example of the:

Identify four qualities both men and women across cultures look for in a mate.

The self-serving bias is a tendency to

When people are presented with information regarding the number of attitudes they share in common with another person, they tend to like this other person best when the person shares

Research on attitudes suggests that they allow us to do all of the following except

Alexis has learned a new karate routine that she will use in competition. She has become quite skilled at executing her moves, and knows the pattern by rote. She performs adequately when she is training in the karate club, but when she is in the competition she performs flawlessly and with much greater intensity and focus, and consistently wins. Her competition performance could be best attributed to

Kitty Genovese was stabbed repeatedly in front of her apartment house, but not one of the 38 neighbours who witnessed her plight intervened or called the police. This incident stimulated the interest of social psychologists in

The realistic conflict theory would predict that the amount of prejudice would

Dan refused an initial phone request for a $24.00 donation to send four needy children to the circus, but he did agree to a second request to give $6.00. This is an example of the

In us-versus-them thinking, the "us" is

The social learning theory of aggression holds that people learn to behave aggressively by observing aggressive models and by having their aggressive responses reinforced.

Asch's and Milgram's experiments indicate that we are

When does social facilitation help or hurt someone's task performance?

Appeals based on fear are most effective when the presentation outlines definite actions the audience can take to avoid the feared outcome.

What is social loafing, and what factors lessen or eliminate it?

According to social learning theory, aggressive behaviour is caused by poor social conditions, like excessive heat, crowding, and loud noise.

Why is it that proximity is related to friendship formation?

Students often report that when they work in a group, someone will not do their part to complete the group project. The person not doing enough to help the group is engaged in:

In his now-classic experiment, Solomon Asch found that, as expected, few people conformed to the judgments of others, even when under pressure to conform.