Exam 13: Social Psychology

Authoritarian personalities would agree with all but which of the following statements?

Wei is from China and Peter is from the United States. Regarding their decisions about where to go to college, which of the following is true?

People walking around downtown at night hear a commotion in a parking garage, with some sounds of yelling and objects being thrown. None of them goes to investigate or call the police. The next day they learn that a young woman was beaten and robbed during the episode. Based on what is known about the bystander effect, it is most likely that the people who heard the altercation __________.

What is the difference between obedience and compliance?

Two research participants read a story about a waiter who maintains his cool in the face of a very rude customer. Asked to explain the waiter's behavior, person A says that a crucial part of the waiter's job is to accept mistreatment from customers. Person B says that the waiter is a very secure, unflappable person. Most likely __________.

Charles tries to watch a debate on television because he knows the moderator, but he is distracted by constantly having to chase his toddler around the room. Which aspects of the debate are least likely to affect his attitude toward the debate topic?

Regina lives in a __________ culture, and so she strives to stand out by achieving personal goals. She also regularly neglects social obligations in order to pursue her own path in life.

In a variant of the Asch line-length experiment, a single confederate was asked to deviate from the majority judgment, but by giving an answer that was even further from the truth than the group's. What effect did this have on the judgment made by the true participant?

Say three girls go to see Green Day in concert. Which one will like the concert most, according to dissonance theory?

Ronald has been identified by personality testing as having a very authoritarian personality. We can predict from this that, compared with others, Ronald will tend to __________.

When given a series of vignettes and asked to explain the behavior of the individuals described in the vignettes, Rena, a woman from India, is found not to display the fundamental attribution error. She most likely lacks this bias because __________.

In one study, participants were invited to choose one of five pens. Four of the pens were of the same color, while the fifth pen was a unique color. East Asian participants, when faced with this task, are more likely than European Americans to choose one of the four same-colored pens. What does this result reveal?

A defense attorney must defend a client whom she does not believe is innocent. According to dissonance theory, under what condition might she be more likely to come to believe in her client's innocence?

Brandon asked his neighbors to watch his puppy for just 15 minutes while he ran to the store. The next week he asked them to take his puppy for an entire weekend. Research suggests that __________.

Studies of bystander intervention in emergencies indicate that, in order to help, the bystander must __________.

Increasing the psychological distance of a research participant from the administration of shocks in Milgram's experiments results in __________.

When Milgram's research participants were seated next to the "learner" and had to hold his hand down on a shock plate to administer shocks, __________.