Exam 8: Behaviour in Social and Cultural Context

Match these studies with the researchers who completed them. -conformity studies

Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, used a technique called the "Big Lie." He knew that people begin to believe that a statement is true simply because it has been repeated a number of times. The formal name for this technique is:

The primary reason why people obey is that they:

Match these definitions with the terms they define. -the belief that one's own ethnic group, nation, or religion is superior to all others

Londoners were stunned when a 10-year-old boy was stabbed to death by four teenagers. There were at least 10 witnesses, but no one called the police or aided the boy. Based on your reading, what reasons could explain this bystander apathy?

A gradual process in which individuals escalate their commitment to a course of action to justify their investment of time, money, or effort is called:

Dissent and altruism are a matter of personal conviction, but situational factors are also involved. Analyze five situational factors that are involved when a person decides to "rock the boat" and choose conscience over conformity.

The teachers in Milgram's experiment would sweat, stutter, groan, and dig their fingernails into their flesh, but they still obeyed.

________ is a tendency for all people on a team or a mission together to agree with each other and suppress any dissension among their ranks.

"We have all sorts of personalities and lots of little quirks, whereas they all act alike and react the same." This assumption would be an example of the cognitive schema called:

People might obey, when they really want to disobey, if they define their task in terms of routine jobs and duties.

Match these definitions with the terms they define. -a gradual process in which individuals escalate their commitment to a course of action to justify their investment of time, money, or effort

Rules that regulate human life (including social conventions, explicit laws, and implicit cultural standards) are called situational attributions.

Which of the following is NOT a key process of coercive persuasion?

The fundamental attribution error is sometimes called correspondence bias because of the underlying assumption that people's dispositions correspond to their behaviours.

The origins of prejudice suggest that:

The tendency to explain favourably the behaviours of members of groups to which we belong is known as ethnocentrism.

Match these definitions with the terms they define. -the process by which members of minority groups come to identify with and feel part of the mainstream culture

Solomon Asch, in his experiments testing conformity, wanted to know what people would do when a group unanimously contradicted an obvious fact. What was found in Asch's studies and in the many replications of his work?

Ethnocentrism can be reduced by: