Exam 12: Social Psychology

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 is due primarily to a process of:

Which of the following is NOT associated with low levels of serotonin in people?

Tyronne really disliked the latest hit song when he first heard it. He would grimace every time it was played on the radio. After hearing the song many times, he is surprised to realize that he has come to like it. Tyronne is experiencing:

Among the factors contributing to the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib was that the guards:

Sinead really likes Perry when they first meet at a party. When he tells her that he is on the varsity basketball team, she decides that he must not have many intellectual or academic interests. Sinead's views are based on:

When someone employs a stereotype, he is judging a person in terms of their:

Given what you know about the role of gender in creating ingroup/outgroup biases, you could predict that the largest number of close friendship groups would be found in:

Gottman's research identifying factors that create a good relationship suggests that one reason why parent-child attachment seems to predict the quality of subsequent adult relationships may be that:

Which explanation would you be LEAST likely to give for your own behaviour?

A U.S. presidential candidate's acceptance speech at the party convention greatly influences the way in which many voters see the candidate. Who was most likely to have a more favourable opinion of Senator Obama after his speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention?

Based on the results of the Milgram studies, which of the following soldiers would you expect to have the least trouble carrying out his orders?

People are often advised not to make hasty decisions about other people. The research on thin slices of behaviour would suggest that this advice is:

Since coming to university, Roger has eaten many kinds of foods that he had never even heard of before. He has found that he dislikes oysters but enjoys sushi. What difference could you predict between his attitudes to oysters and sushi?

A smaller percentage of Canadians vote in elections than do citizens of other democracies. Work on attitudes and behaviour in psychology would suggest that the best way to increase voting in this country might be to:

Mr. Ahkbar is the principal of a military school that has only had male students. For the first time this fall, girls are being admitted. The boys are very hostile to this decision and Mr. Ahkbar is worried that there will be trouble. What would you advise Mr. Ahkbar to do in order to decrease hostility and better integrate the female students into the school?

Professor Marcus believes that student athletes are lazy and academically incompetent. Every time she has an athlete in one of her classes who is a poor student she takes note of and remembers it. Every time she has an athlete in her class who is an excellent student she ignores it. This is a mechanism by which Professor Marcus _____ her stereotype of student athletes.

Ichiro is worried because his relationship with his girlfriend seems less solid than it has been. He can't really identify a problem, but they seem to be more impatient and distant with each other. Based upon Gottman's work, what would you suggest that Ichiro do?

In making causal attributions, people from Eastern cultures differ from those in Western cultures in that they:

In terms of their sex life, the happiest couples:

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 or a white face. When the subjects saw a black face, they: