Exam 8: Behaviour in Social and Cultural Context

The validity effect was called the "Big Lie" by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister.

In variations of Stanley Milgram's study on obedience, people were more likely to disobey when the experimenter left the room.

In Stanley Milgram's study on obedience, once the "learner" cried out in pain, 85% of the participants refused to deliver any more shocks.

The fundamental attribution error is especially prevalent in collectivist cultures, such as India or Japan.

Adora and Yvette, together with twelve of their closest friends from college, are planning to go to Florida during reading week. As members of the anonymous crowd of college students, Adora and Yvette will most likely:

Match these definitions with the terms they define. -Rules that regulate social life, including explicit laws and implicit cultural conventions.

Social cognition is an area in social psychology concerned with social influences on thought, memory, perception, and other cognitive processes.

Research suggests that a person is:

The validity effect is the tendency of people to believe that a statement is true simply because it has been repeated many times.

When Milgram and his team set up several variations of his original study, they found that people were more likely to disobey under all of the following circumstances EXCEPT when:

One way for a person to cope with the unpleasant state of tension associated with cognitive dissonance is to:

Which of the following is NOT a hallmark of having an ethnic identity?

Attribution theory examines:

The tendency, in explaining one's own behaviour, to take credit for one's good actions and rationalize one's mistakes is called:

Research on social roles suggests that:

The contact and friendship opportunities at multi-ethnic schools lead to harmony and cooperation between different ethnic groups.

Which of the following is NOT a reason that people conform to social pressure?

You are required to participate in a perception experiment and so you join seven other students seated in a room. You are shown a 10-inch test line and must choose the line that matches it in length from a choice of three lines. The experimenter, Solomon Asch, is interested in studying:

Which of the following describes "diffusion of responsibility"?

In the social-psychological view, the horrifying violence of one group against another is due to inner aggressive drives that are part of human nature.