Exam 13: Social Psychology

When members of the personnel department at a company conduct hiring interviews, they listen to applicants' explanations for their performance at previous positions. They make inferences about the reasons applicants did what they did; in other words, the personnel officers are __________.

Groupthink is particularly likely when the group is __________.

Assume Mark never does what he says he's going to do, and you explain that by calling him "undependable." In this case, you have made a(n) __________.

Research on bystander intervention suggests that if you are attacked on the street, __________.

Recent research has revealed that people who are conservative politically are also more likely to be __________.

Because humans cannot entirely know the subjective experience of others, they have incomplete information when they attempt to explain the behavior of others. This is one reason why we experience __________.

In Milgram's experiment, research participants who were fully obedient __________.

David sees a woman who may be in distress while walking through a crowded festival. She is clutching at her throat as though choking, but no one nearby is assisting here. David springs into action to assist her because he is aware of diffusion of responsibility and realizes that __________.

A cruel leader has been instructing his servants to punish citizens in a rebellious town by firing mortar rounds on them from a distance, causing many civilian casualties. Based on findings from the Milgram studies, we can expect that the servants would be less likely to obey these commands inflict harm on the citizens if __________.

Social facilitation __________.

Kitty Genovese __________.

When subjects wearing identical robes and hoods were asked to deliver electric shocks to another person, they __________.

Donald asserts that some of his best friends are Jewish, but he appears to be influenced by some negative Jewish stereotypes, although he emphatically denies holding any such beliefs. One method for assessing whether he may hold such stereotypes, even though he denies it, would be through __________.

Love tends to heighten under conditions that __________ it.

Homogamy refers to our tendency to __________.

Lindsey knows that he will be trying to persuade an intelligent and attentive listener in a setting that is free from distraction, and so he plans to utilize the central route to persuasion. This means that he will be relying on __________.

Stanley Milgram's experiment wherein a research participant acted as a "teacher" and thought he administered shock to a "learner" was designed to investigate __________.

A study made use of a vignette describing a motorcycle accident in which a driver did less than he might have to help another person. How did Hindu Indians tend to explain the driver's behavior?

Bob is attracted to Louise, a woman in his class. Research suggests that if he wants Louise to be attracted to him, he should __________.

The results of a standard Asch line-judgment task compared to one in which the lines are difficult to distinguish indicate that __________.