Exam 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Dr. Chen found that class projects were of poorer quality when students worked in groups than when each student did an individual project. This difference can be explained by the phenomenon of:

In a classic cognitive dissonance study, researchers paid participants either $1 or $20 to say a dull task was interesting. The _____ graph of the results would show that a _____ percentage of the $20 participants rated the task as interesting.

Repeated exposure to novel stimuli causes people to have more positive feelings about them. This is known as:

Briefly describe Sternberg's triangular model of love. Name the four types of love based on the dimensions. Then, select and identify two specific kinds of love specified by the model. Illustrate each type of love you select in a brief one- or two-sentence vignette of a couple experiencing it.

The pressure of social roles and the presence of demands for obedience have been cited to explain events at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where U.S. soldiers tortured and humiliated Iraqis in 2004. This explanation given by Americans for America's own failures reflects the:

In social psychological experiments, an individual who secretly works for the experimenters is called a(n):

Attitudes and attributions are aspects of social cognition.

Events at Abu Ghraib affirm the continued relevance of Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment.

The mental process of inferring the causes of people's behavior, including one's own, is called:

Briefly outline the procedure and results of Stanley Milgram's classic obedience study. Evaluate Milgram's procedure with respect to the ethical guidelines of contemporary psychology.

A _____ might study the political attitudes of individual voters. A ____ might study the behavior of political parties.

Courtney is enrolled in an advanced physics class at her high school. She is one of only three girls in the class and she is aware of the notion that girls perform more poorly in math and science than boys. This knowledge may actually hinder Courtney's performance in the class as a result of:

The local basketball team consistently performs better in front of the home crowd on their home court. This BEST illustrates:

In determining the causes of others' behavior, people overemphasize _____ factors; this is the _____.

Many of Milgram's participants were traumatized by their participation in his experiment.

The fundamental attribution error involves:

In recent years, political commentators have lamented that the political divide between the "red states" and the "blue states" has become a chasm. Technological advances such as the Web and social media have only exacerbated this trend. Social psychologists might point to the phenomenon of _______ in explaining these developments.

The goal of advertising is to encourage people to view products or services favorably, and, ideally, to purchase them. Advertising's objective, therefore, is:

Groupthink has been implicated in the United States' controversial 2003 decision to invade Iraq.

A magazine publisher asks you to commit to a brief trial subscription. Having committed to the trial subscription, you may be more likely to buy a year-long subscription. This exemplifies the ___________ compliance technique.