Exam 8: Behaviour in Social and Cultural Context

The social psychologists who designed the two-week prison study asked the participants to extend the study by an extra week because results weren't evident yet.

Despite the criticism over the famous Prison Study, the researchers involved, Haney and Zimbardo, continued to increase public awareness about the:

The primary reason why people obey is that they:

The part of a person's self-concept that is based on his or her identification with a nation, culture, or ethnic group or with gender or other roles in society is called:

Which of the following is NOT an example of a norm violation?

An international student reads in her psychology textbook that the fundamental attribution error is especially prevalent in her home country. She is most likely from:

Match these definitions with the terms they define. -a state of tension that occurs when a person simultaneously holds two cognitions that are psychologically inconsistent, or when a person's belief is incongruent with his or her behaviour

Match these definitions with the terms they define. -the tendency to explain favourably the behaviours of members of groups to which we belong

In Asch's conformity experiment, the presence of one other person who gave the correct answer was enough to overcome agreement with the majority.

Psychologists use the terms "brainwashing" and "coercive persuasion" interchangeably.

An attitude is a belief about people, groups, ideas, or activities.

Which of the following suggests that the speaker is making the fundamental attribution error?

Each person has ________ social role(s).

Our authors explain the benefits of reviewing the psychological research on culture when travelling to a different country. What advice do they give? What examples help illustrate the need for this advice?

In research with 15 000 men and women in 19 countries, psychologists found that:

Which of the following was NOT a criticism of Milgram's study?

Replications of Asch's conformity studies have shown that conformity reflects social norms.

Describe the technique that Joseph Goebbels called the "Big Lie."

Which of the following is an example of entrapment?

John knows and likes the Chinese minority in town, but he privately believes that Anglo culture is superior. This example illustrates: