Exam 13: D: Social Psychology

Groupthink can be avoided by

When 68-year-old Mrs.Blake had a flat tire on a fairly isolated highway,she received help from a passerby in less than 10 minutes.One year later,she had a flat tire on a busy freeway and an hour elapsed before someone finally stopped to offer assistance.Mrs.Blake's experience best illustrates

In 1986,the space shuttle Challenger was launched despite warnings of danger from NASA engineers that parts might malfunction due to weather conditions.Which concept best characterizes the decision to go ahead with the launch?

The tendency to give too much emphasis to personal factors when accounting for other people's actions is called _______.

Even though he thought the Army Reserve's short hair regulation was silly,Ted really wanted the extra money Reserve duty provided to him,so he kept his hair short.This is an example of

Following the direct orders of someone in a position of higher authority is called:

Research has indicated that when we set the stage for the self-fulfilling prophecy,we are _____________ that behaviour.

Freire did very poorly on his last arithmetic test.The tendency to make the fundamental attribution error might lead his sixth-grade teacher to conclude that Freire did poorly because

Over-simplified generalizations about the characteristics of a group are called

In the famous Milgram experiment on obedience,who received a shock?

Asch (1951)used __________ to study informational conformity.

When a group exerts such strong pressure to conform that it prevents people from expressing critical ideas,the group is suffering from __________.

A relatively stable organization of beliefs,feelings,and behaviour tendencies toward something or someone else is a(n)__________.

In the Milgram experiment on obedience,the dependent variable was the:

As the number of people present during an emergency increases,what can be predicted about the likelihood that any one individual will help?