Exam 10: Social Psychology

If you ever have the misfortune of injuring yourself in front of a large crowd of people, how can you best ensure that someone in the crowd will help you?

You find that you are beginning to like the person sitting next to in your psychology class more and more. What might you be experiencing?

A participant in a study conducted by Bibb Latané and John Darley on the bystander effect might ____.

Cognitive dissonance is most accurately described as stemming from ____.

Based on what you know about prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination, which sequence best represents how the three processes often develop?

Norms are ____.

Randa just failed her history exam because she neglected to study. Afterward, she attributes her test failure to the fact that her boyfriend kept her up too late the night before when he refused to turn down the stereo so that she could sleep. The next day she aces her biology test. Randa attributes her success on it to her own intelligence. Randa appears to be engaging in which attributional bias?

In a jigsaw classroom, students ____.

Abu was attending a concert with friends when a fight broke out in the crowd near the stage. From Abu's perspective, all he could see was a small group of people scuffling while the rest of the crowd calmly watched. Because the majority of the crowd seemed to be calm, Abu decided that the people must be playing around instead of fighting. And consequently, he did not intervene or go for help. Abu's behavior is best described as an example of ____.

Which individual is processing an argument on the central route of persuasion?

In which of the following situations would the audience be most likely to trust the communicator?

People from ____ cultures are less likely to engage in the fundamental attribution error.

Persuasion is NOT reduced by the awareness that the communicator is trying to persuade us when _____.

Biological research has suggested that being romantically attracted to another person is most associated with ____.

The mere exposure effect is related primarily to which aspect of attraction?

Maria and Becka are assigned a class presentation where they must try and persuade their classmates to buy one of two cars. Maria is trying to sell her car through the central route of persuasion, while Becka is restricted to utilizing the peripheral route of persuasion. Compare how they might construct their respective presentations.

Describe the five steps of helping as proposed by John Darley and Bibb Latané.

A persuader who acknowledges the other side of an argument will be perceived as more trustworthy by the audience. This is a factor associated with the ____ category of persuasion variables.

Describe the research of Solomon Asch and the reasons why we conform to the behavior of others.

Which of the following experimental conditions produced the lowest rate of obedience all the way to the 450-volt level in Milgram's experiments?