Exam 12: Social Psychology

Sarah wants to do particularly well at her upcoming piano recital.What should she do to ensure a great performance?

Based on the work of Tajfel and Turner (1978),we know that for groups to show ingroup favoritism,they:

Prejudice can be reduced through all of the following EXCEPT:

Sharrita has just started a new job.She is smart,attractive,funny,and reliable,yet her coworkers do not seem to like her.The literature on the Pratfall effect suggests that it might help her relationship with her coworkers if she:

The idea of inclusive fitness is designed to explain why:

In light of Asch's work on conformity,you could predict that obedience in the Milgram study would have DECREASED greatly under which of the following conditions?

It is most evolutionarily adaptive for people to form ________ attitudes ________.

White participants in a psychology study were asked to decide,as rapidly as possible,whether an object that they had been briefly shown was a gun or a tool.Before seeing the picture,they were briefly shown a picture of either a black face or a white face.When the subjects saw a black face,they:

Nonverbal communication is so powerful that people have been able to correctly judge each of the following from viewing people's body language EXCEPT:

The main conclusion of Milgram's studies is that:

Stanley Milgram's experiment illustrated the phenomenon of:

Jerry is someone who doesn't think very highly of postal workers.Which of the following statements would be most consistent with the concept of outgroup homogeneity?

If someone wants to create an attitude that will last a long time,he or she should use the ________ method of persuasion.If someone wants to create an attitude that will last only a short time,he or she should use the ________ method of persuasion.

________ is critical for group formation,as it helps us to predict that in response to friendly actions people will likely behave cooperatively,whereas in response to hostile actions people will likely behave more aggressively.

The failure to offer help to someone observed to be in need is referred to as:

Sometimes after a big football game fans will riot,getting into fights and destroying property.People in such a crowd will often do things that they would never do on their own.This effect is due primarily to a process of:

Mrs.Smith wants to ensure that all of her students are working hard on their group projects.In order to decrease the possibility of social loafing,she should use what type of grading policy for their group projects?

Darius has volunteered to work 2 hours a week as a tutor.He tells the volunteer coordinator that he cannot do more.Gradually,he agrees to add an extra hour here and there,until finally he is tutoring 12 hours a week.Darius has gotten into this situation through the compliance technique known as the:

Evolutionary theories of partner selection claim that females should seek out partners who are wealthy,as financial security is a proxy for:

Online dating websites,like eHarmony,use personality matching to pair potential relationship partners.Their formula for pairing partners is based on: