Exam 13: Social Psychology

Cynthia has recently begun a career with a Jewish-based agency. Up until this point in her life, she had not had any interaction with anyone who was Jewish. Based on the individuals she works with, she has found them to be a very close-knit group and who care for their own in the community who may need assistance. Additionally, she has found them to be very educated and assertive. Cynthia now holds the view that all Jewish people are the same: educated, close knit within their own group, assertive, and caring toward other Jewish folks who need help. Cynthia's view represents ________.

Explain conformity and discuss the social factors that influence the level of conformity.

Unfounded negative beliefs of which we are aware regarding the characteristics of an out-group are known as

The Robbers Cave study and the jigsaw classroom underscore a lesson confirmed by many other social psychology studies; that is,

A ________ attribution looks at ________ factors, while a(n)________ attribution looks at ________ factors.

Prejudice arises from a need to blame other groups for our present misfortunes, according to the ________.

When Clorinda was young, she heard the story that Walt Disney had been frozen and that when scientists find a cure for the disease he died from, they will bring him back to life. This is an example of a(n)________.

Galen decided to join GreenPeace after college and turned down three very financially lucrative job offers in the process. He believed that by joining GreenPeace, he could assist more people than he would via his job offers in the field of advertising. Which of the following BEST describes Galen's decision?

________ is helping others for unselfish reasons.

Your friend asks to borrow $50 from you. You tell him no. Then he asks for a mere $10, which you gladly give him. While you feel good to have helped him out, you may have just experienced the ________.

________ refers to the tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional influences on others' behaviour.

After a particularly difficult psychology exam, you and your friends confide in one another about the test, comparing your answers and reactions to the test. This is known as Leon Festinger's ________.

Kelly, who is in year 12, a cheerleader, and the class vice president, would be more likely to be positively predisposed to which of the following students?

The ________ heuristic can be summarised by the statement, "If most people believe that something works, then it must work".

In which of the following situations is the person more likely to be helped?

Asch also tried to rule out alternative hypotheses for his findings. He examined whether group norms affected participants' perceptions of the lines, and he then conducted his original study but asked participants to write, rather than call out, their responses. In this condition, he found the answers to be right more than 99 per cent of the time. Which of the six principles does this example demonstrate?

A persuasive technique involving asking for a small request before asking for a bigger one is called the ________.

Social psychology is best defined as the scientific study of ________.

Marika was confronted by the jealous girlfriend of a guy that Marika had dated. She backed down from the confrontation and fled the scene. Later, she asked several others what they would have done in that type of a situation and they agreed that they would have done the same thing. Marika felt better. This is an example of ________.

Milgram examined other explanations for obedience and was able to manipulate the independent variables such as the amount of feedback and proximity from the learner to the teacher, and the physical proximity and prestige of the experimenter. Milgram was not only trying to replicate his original findings, but he was also trying to demonstrate which of the other principles of scientific thinking?