Exam 13: Social Behavior

According to Hazan and Shaver's model of infant attachment and romantic love,adults with which of the following attachment styles are MOST likely to report more intense emotional highs and lows in their romantic relationships?

Joe has been calling Jill each evening and talking with her everyday at lunch,but now he is deeply despondent because she is out of town.Joe is in the throes of

When people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen they have

The fundamental attribution error refers to the tendency of

When you ascribe the cause of your friend's car accident to the fact that it was snowing,you are making an internal attribution.

Which of the following is NOT a defining feature of a group?

In many cultures,a key element associated with physical attractiveness is

According to the romantic love as an attachment perspective,one's intimate relationships in adulthood follow the same form as one's attachments first formed

People from individualist cultures appear to be less prone to the fundamental attribution error and more prone to use of the self-serving bias.

The NASA personnel who were in charge of the space shuttle launch had clear evidence that freezing temperatures could pose a problem for the shuttle,but they chose to ignore the evidence and proceeded with the launch anyway.The process that would BEST explain why the launch went ahead,even though there was evidence that indicated it should be delayed,is

The idea that males and females of approximately equal physical attractiveness are likely to select each other as partners refers to the

Karen is a graduate student in psychology and proposes to use Milgram's procedure to study whether men or women are more likely to exhibit obedience.Most likely her faculty advisor will tell her

Frequently,companies use professionals such as doctors and dentists to recommend products in advertisements since professionals are most likely to be perceived as having

The bystander effect should be strongest in

The beliefs people have concerning the object of an attitude describes the ____ component of an attitude.

Dallas watches as Rhoda missteps in the cafeteria and spills coffee on herself and two other students.If Dallas concludes that Rhoda is an uncoordinated "klutz" who wasn't paying attention to what she was doing,he has

Advertisements that include phrases like "limited supply available" or "for a limited time only" are making use of which of the following social influence techniques?

Obedience is a form of compliance in which people change their behavior in response to

Censoring dissent,pressuring to conform,omitting contradictory evidence,and polarizing ingroup and outgroup are basic features of which of the following?

According to the notion of defensive attribution,we tend to explain the setbacks that befall other people in terms of