Exam 13: Social Psychology

The ________ is a persuasive technique involving having someone agree to a request and then revealing that there are additional hidden obligations.

Behaviour that is intended to help others is often referred to as ________.

Mike is a great football player. Last Saturday, his new girlfriend attended the game to watch him play, and Mike played even better than usual. Mike's enhanced performance demonstrates the phenomenon known as ________.

The approximate number of people that each of us knows reasonably well is ________.

The Bay of Pigs invasion, the Challenger explosion, and countless other meetings where group unanimity comes at the expense of critical thinking and sound decision-making, is known as ________.

You and your group have had four weeks to complete a group project for your economics class. You are now four days away from the due date, and you and one other group member have been putting in all of the time and effort. The other two members come occasionally to group meetings and do the minimal work required. This unfortunate situation is known as ________.

Despite warnings from NASA engineers that the shuttle might explode because rubber rings on the rocket booster could fail in freezing temperatures, the project managers of the Challenger agreed to launch it after a series of bitterly cold days in January. This is an example of intelligent people making a catastrophic decision due to the phenomenon of ________.

The ________ is the claim that our attributions and behaviours are shaped by a belief that the world is fair and people always get what they deserve.

Roger felt the need to blame other groups for his misfortunes, despite the fact that he could have taken the reins of his own life any time, rather than wallowing in the ________.

The ________ is a persuasive technique that involves making an unreasonably large request before making the small request you are hoping to have granted.

________ is the act of treating members from out-groups differently from members of one's own group.

The out-group ________ bias refers to the tendency to view all individuals outside of one's group as being highly similar.

According to Asch and others, all of the following are social factors that influence conformity EXCEPT

In order to reduce the influence of cults, McGuire demonstrated that the best way is to first introduce reasons why the perspective might be correct and then debunk it in an approach known as the ________.

The way we each affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of others and are, in turn, affected by others is the study of ________.

Some researchers examining the validity of the Implicit Associations Test (IAT)have suggested that an absence of correlation between the IAT and measures of explicit prejudice actually supports the IAT's validity. This is because the IAT is believed to measure unconscious, or implicit, prejudice. The result is that the validity of the IAT can be supported whether correlations with other measure of prejudice are low or high. This is a problem for which of the six principles of critical thinking?

Discuss bystander nonintervention and what factors influence intervention.

Discuss attitude change and the types of persuasive techniques that can be used on people.

Devoid of any retribution, thousands of fans at a football game swarmed the field, climbed on the goal posts, yelled, screamed, and took their clothes off. This behaviour of normally mild-mannered citizens is known as ________.

________ suggests that we start with a small request before asking for a bigger one.