Exam 12: C: Social Psychology

Normative social pressure is based on:

Any group of people who feel a sense of solidarity and exclusivity in relation to nonmembers is __________.

Which of the following conditions is conducive to creating a group think effect?

Failure to critically evaluate ideas when concern is for reaching agreement is called _________.

According to Festinger,the feeling of discomfort that results from the realization that our beliefs and our behaviors are discrepant is called:

Discrimination differs from prejudice in that it is:

Jim has written a book,but it looks like he will not get it published.He said,"I don't care about publishing it.It is the joy of writing it that counts." This illustrates ___________.

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:

When others act,our attention is focused on __________.When we act,our attention is focused on ___________.

A new self-image makes it more difficult to refuse later requests with the ___________ technique.

Behavior directed at helping others with no thought or expectation of personal gain is called _______ behavior.

The Milgram obedience study has been criticized on the basis of:

Which of the following phenomena usually involves an excessively negative,overgeneralized assumption about a socially defined category of people?

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

The factor most likely to determine whether group think becomes a problem for a group is group _______.

The most important situational variable in altruism is the _______.

The major problem associated with groupthink is which of the following?

_______ may result when a person performs in a group in which his or her contribution is not easily observable.

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

The fundamental attribution error refers to: