Exam 12: Social Psychology

The central route to persuasion is one in which:

When Van goes to university he resolves to be a good student even though being on the varsity football team will absorb a lot of his time. 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:

Happy couples attribute bad outcomes to the situation and good outcomes to each other. In terms of attribution theory, happy couples are making ____________, suggesting that the couple ____________.

The actor/observer effect is most likely to occur in the case of a negative event. This is due to the:

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

"I love independent cats because they are interesting, even though people find them aloof." In this argument, the conclusion is ____________, the premise is ____________, the qualifier is ____________, and the counter-argument is____________.

Dr. Garza removed an area of the brain of a rhesus monkey. The monkey is now extremely friendly, explores objects that he used to fear, and puts everything in his mouth. The area of the monkey's brain that was removed was the:

Gottman has found that a marriage that has ____________ positive as negative interactions is in trouble and a marriage that has ____________ positive as negative interactions is in good shape.

When the United States military was integrated, many people expected that it would be a disaster. In fact, integration of the military was hugely successful. In terms of social psychology, a major reason for this success was most likely that black and white soldiers:

The main advantage of a stereotype is that it ____________; the main disadvantage is that it ____________.

Lucia has just declared a major in engineering. You could predict that she will now see other engineering students as ____________ and see liberal arts students as ____________.

The process of moving from a passionate to a companionate relationship primarily involves:

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

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

A lawyer defending a man in a rape trial tries to get women on the jury while the prosecutor tries to get men. The motive in both cases is that women jurors tend to make much harsher judgments of the woman who was raped than do male jurors. The most likely explanation for this gender difference is the:

In Milgram's obedience studies, about ____________ of the participants administered maximum shock and ____________ of them tried to quit the study.

Monkeys with low levels of serotonin have been found to:

A group of microbiology students have been working on a semester-long project that will determine 50 percent of their course grade. A week before the project is due, they 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 of the other members have doubts, none of them feels comfortable saying so. The group ignores the possibility of being caught and convinces themselves to falsify the report. This is an example of:

When white participants in a psychology study were shown pictures of black faces, the ____________ was immediately activated. With more time, the ____________ were activated.

According to the idea of kin selection, Hannah is mostly likely to behave altruistically toward her: