Exam 16: Social Psychology

Pat normally avoids working with people outside her ethnic group,but she recently worked with Barb and found her to be unlike the others.What effect will Pat's attitude toward Barb have on her prejudice toward other people of different ethnicity?

If you were a car salesperson and you were instructed to use the low-ball technique,which of the following would be an example of that technique?

Children develop some of their own attitudes about the behavior of others through parental modeling.This means that children

Sometimes a member of a group will not do his fair share of the work because he knows others will cover for him and that his individual effort cannot be identified.This phenomenon is known as

The fundamental attribution error is our tendency to overestimate the importance of situations on others.

Equity theory is used to explain why relationships endure or end.

Culturally determined rules and guidelines that tell us how to behave in groups are called

Speakers are generally less persuasive if they obviously want to change our opinions,such as a salesperson trying to convince us to buy a car.Which speaker characteristic does this demonstrate?

The fundamental attribution error suggests that we underestimate the power of the situation when examining other's behavior but not when examining our own behavior.

Stereotyping is not always negative.

Regarding one's reasons for falling in love,women tend to value ______ more than men.

In contrast to attribution theory,cognitive dissonance theory

When prejudiced people are made angry,prejudice is ______,even if the target group is not responsible for the angry situation.

Beliefs that predispose us to act and feel in certain ways are known as attitudes.

Studies of listener characteristics have concluded that women are more easily persuaded than men.

When people speak with one another back and forth in a small group,this is known as an interactive dialogue.

When a group is unanimous about an issue,conformity is at its highest point.

According to social psychologists,______ are beliefs that predispose us to act and feel certain ways.

Women place more emphasis on physical attractiveness when falling in love compared to men.

Groupthink tends to occur more often if the group is