Exam 13: Social Psychology-Part C

Stereotyping is a useful process.

There is a strong relationship between what a person is and what a person says or does.

Physical attractiveness is associated with increases in income for women but not men.

The potential physical costs of having sex are much greater for women than they are men.

Milgram's study of obedience demonstrated that most people will not hurt another person when instructed to do so by an authority figure.

Genuine altruism indirectly promotes the survival of our own genes.

We tend to underestimate the variability among members of different categories.

African Americans are equally as likely as Whites to mistake a camera for a gun if held by an African American male.

Groups usually will make better decisions than will individuals.

Research supports the old adage "Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

A recruiter who stands in front of the country's flag and urges you to enlist and "be all you can be" is using heuristic persuasion.

You are more likely to become obese if your friend becomes obese.

Restaurants that offer you a dessert on the house are using the norm of reciprocity to encourage you to return.

Research suggests that the ideal shape of a female may change over time and across cultures,but the ideal hip-to-waist ratio remains fairly constant.

Larger groups provide more opportunity for deindividuation and diffusion of responsibility.

Dispositional attributions usually are made when an action is consensual.

Most people would rather accept being cheated and get less than what they are owed than punish the cheater and get nothing.

Blaming the poor call made by a referee on his general incompetence and impaired eyesight is an example of a dispositional attribution.

Human beings are the most social species on the planet.

When participants in Steele and Aronson's study (1995)were asked to list their race at the top of an exam,African American students scored more poorly than did their SAT scores suggested they should.