Exam 12: Social Psychology

A group of microbiology students has been working on a semester-long project that will determine 50 percent of the students' course grades.A week before the project is due,the students realize they have made a critical error and their results are useless.One member of the group argues strongly that they should falsify their results so they will be able to turn in a successful project.Though all the other members have doubts,none of them feels comfortable saying so.All the members ignore the possibility of being caught and convince themselves to falsify the report.This scenario is an example of:

The idea of reciprocal helping applies best to which of the following situations?

When Milgram decreased the physical distance between the teacher and the learner in his obedience studies so that the teacher could see the learner,the level of obedience:

Each of the following has been shown to be a reason for bystander apathy EXCEPT:

Who would be the most persuasive spokesperson for selling a new brand of prenatal vitamins to women?

In which of the following ways are long-distance relationships most different from relationships with partners that are geographically close?

Sam is passionately in love with Hailey.He cannot stop thinking about her and spends all his free time with her.His work is suffering,and his friends complain that he is obsessed with her.Sam and his friends might understand this situation better if they knew that passionate love:

The Stanford prison study illustrates that people:

The primary difference between conformity,compliance,and obedience is the:

Len and Maria just got married and have a wonderful sexual relationship.If their marriage is typical of those in American culture,they can expect that:

As put forth in the book,"among strangers ________ created enemies,but among enemies ________ created friends."

In the ________,people will be more likely to agree with a small request after they have refused a large request.

In line with what you know about evolutionary theories of attraction,how might older females make themselves more attractive to members of the opposite sex?

According to the mere-exposure phenomenon,greater familiarity with an item typically leads to ________ attitudes about that item.

When Van goes to college,he resolves to be a good student even though being on the college football team will absorb a lot of his time and is important to him.When he thinks about what has happened at the end of his day,he usually winds up thinking about football.He has to make an effort to shift his thoughts to what happened in his classes.You could predict that Van will find it much easier to fulfill his football obligations than his academic obligations,because of:

The active and conscious effort to change an attitude through the transmission of a message is known as:

Americans may feel particularly good about themselves after Team USA wins an Olympic gold medal because social identity theory states that:

To create hostility and prejudice between two groups of boys for his Robber's Cave Study,Sherif:

Which of the following phenomena can explain why people generally prefer a mirror image of themselves as compared to a normal photograph of themselves?

Who would be seen as the most desirable romantic partner?