Exam 12: Social Psychology

Miriam believes that she is not an attractive woman. As a result, she wears drab clothes and no makeup. Whenever a man shows interest in her, she thinks that he is just being kind. Miriam's behaviour is an example of a(n):

Imagine that you are recruiting people to volunteer to do part-time tutoring of elementary school kids. Dissonance theory would suggest that a successful strategy would be to pay them:

Yolanda is interviewing for a job as an engineer. She is doing very well until the interviewer asks her if she believes that a woman can really devote the time to being an engineer. After that, she stumbles over answers and becomes distracted. Yolanda is showing the effects of:

The idea of inclusive fitness is designed to explain the problem that:

In order to create hostility and prejudice between two groups of boys for his study, Sherif had to:

Naomi was raised as a vegetarian. When she gets to university she decides that she will eat meat so that she will be more like everyone else. Even though she really wants to stop being a vegetarian, Naomi finds that she can't bring herself to eat meat. Naomi's situation demonstrates the effect of ____________ on attitudes.

The major factor which determines whether the presence of other people produces social facilitation or social loafing is:

Brain scan research suggests that stereotypes are activated ____________, producing immediate negative responses; cognitive judgments more ____________, leading to less discriminatory responses.

When public schools were desegregated, people thought that simply having black and white kids attend school together would reduce stereotypes and prejudice. Given the literature on groups and prejudice, why did this approach not work?