Exam 13: Social Psychology

When Jeffrey was in Iraq, the colonel who was in command of his unit told the troops to destroy all the homes in the towns they passed through.Jeffrey didn't think that this was the right thing to do, but he followed the colonel's orders.The process that best explains Jeffrey's actions in this instance is:

Clarence was celebrating his favorite team's Super Bowl victory on his own when some of his friends showed up and invited him to a "street party" to celebrate.There were hundreds of people at the party, and as the party progressed, Clarence began to vandalize property with some of the others in the group.It appears that the "street party":

The observation that inconsistent behavior produces tension is the central idea in which of the following?

When the surgeon's patient died, the intern decided the surgeon was incompetent.This illustrates:

According to Sternberg's triangular theory of love, ____________________ is the motivational component that underlies arousal and sexual attraction.

The study of how people use processes such as perception, memory, thought, and emotion to help make sense of other people as well as themselves is:

Name and describe the three components of an attitude.Provide a concrete example to show how the three components work together.

Conformity occurs when:

Negative attitudes about a group that are not consciously recognized are known as:

Blair listens as Harold tells him about his high grade in philosophy.Blair decides that Harold must be very bright if he scores at the top of the class on his philosophy exams.Blair's attribution for the cause of Harold's high grade is consistent with:

Treating a person in an unfair way, simply because of his or her membership in a particular group, would constitute:

A House of Representatives committee quickly reached a consensus that some generally minor changes needed to be made to the immigration laws.After a lengthy, well-balanced discussion, they produced a quite radical bill that would almost stop immigration completely.Their decision appears to be an example of:

Psychologists use the term ____________________ to refer to the impairment that is found when an individual performs in the presence of others.

Which of the following is true regarding Sternberg's views of love?

Sternberg suggested that:

Sarita and Amarbir met for the first time today.Their parents have arranged a marriage between these two, and the ceremony will be held in three months.Based on Sternberg's theory concerning the relationship between the passage of time and the three components of love, you should predict that over the next 10-15 years, Sarita and Amarbir's relationship will slowly develop:

According to Sternberg's triangular theory of love, commitment is:

In trying to understand why some ethnic neighborhoods are dominated by poverty, people often infer that the residents are lazy and unmotivated.This type of inference illustrates:

People raised in Asian cultures are more likely to focus on situational factors, which would lead to the prediction that people in these cultures would be less likely to make the fundamental attribution error when judging someone else's behavior.

A comedian walks on stage, looks very serious, and starts to destroy large melons with a sledgehammer.At first, no one in the audience is sure what to do, and the entire auditorium is quiet.After a few minutes, however, several people at the back of the room start to laugh.Other people soon join in, and soon the entire audience is laughing loudly as the comedian continues to destroy various types of fruit.This is an example of: