Exam 13: Social Psychology

Rich is very happy to find that his new neighbor in his apartment building is a very attractive woman because he knows that living near someone __________.

According to dissonance theory, those who live right beside a floodplain will consider the possibility of flooding to be __________.

Melinda is trying to get accurate feedback from her employees about whether a new product she is planning to sell will be appealing to consumers. She would normally have her employees comment on the product in a group staff meeting; however, she recently learned about the Asch studies and is concerned about conformity pressures. What strategy could she use to reduce conformity?

In Asch's social pressure experiment, when the confederates said that a 6-inch line is equal to an 8-inch line, most real participants __________.

The idea that opposites attract seems to be __________.

In a variation of Milgram's experiment, research participants played an essential part in "teaching," but a confederate administered the shocks. Under these conditions, what percentage of the research participants continued to the end of the experiment?

John wants to perform well at everything he does. He knows that gathering a crowd of people around to watch him perform will help his performance, as long as the task he is performing is __________.

One variant of the Asch line-length experiment required that the participant write down her guesses in private. What was this change in procedure intended to explore?

Which of the following clearly illustrates or involves pluralistic ignorance?

Although love is difficult to define, how many basic kinds of love do there seem to be?

Abigail tends to avoid crowds whenever she can because of her concern about what people tend to do when they gather together in large numbers. She has felt this way since reading about Gustav Le Bon's claim that an individual, in the context of a crowd, __________.

Zeke is the public-relations director for Mr. Black, a gubernatorial candidate. In preparing Mr. Black for a debate, Zeke realizes that the arguments on Mr. Black's side are very weak. Instead of giving Mr. Black stronger arguments, Zeke loads Mr. Black with a bunch of tangentially relevant statistics. With this strategy, Mr. Black is most likely to persuade someone __________.

The foot-in-the-door method of persuasion is successful because people __________.

Victim dehumanization __________.

Which theory states that we really do not know ourselves directly, but that self-knowledge is achieved indirectly through the same methods that we use to understand others?

A group of like-minded individuals are discussing the best strategy for marketing their new product with the limited amount of funds available. One safe strategy would be to simply follow the same marketing campaign used with last year's products. However, some of the group members have expressed support for a new, untested strategy that will cost more money but could generate much greater sales. In this scenario, which of the following is most likely?

In a classic study, research participants did an extremely boring task and were then paid either $1 or $20 to tell someone else that it was interesting. When their actual attitudes toward the task were later measured, __________.

In Milgram's experiment on obedience, __________.

Halley found that he was more than willing to behave viciously toward members of a minority group when he was hidden by his KKK robes and surrounded by fellow KKK members, even though he tended not to behave this way the rest of the time. His behavior while robed reflects the influence of __________.

Imagine an Asch-style social pressure experiment in which the judgments are made more difficult (e.g., 6.5 vs. 6.25 inches) than in the standard task. Most likely, compared to the standard task, participants in the new version will __________.