Exam 12: C: Social Psychology

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

To relieve dissonance,people will try to change _______,so that attitudes,beliefs,and behavior will once again support one another.

Social comparison theory suggests that we often learn about our behaviors:

Early studies indicated that women conformed more than men.Later research has shown that women's conforming behavior is motivated by their desire to ________.

Prejudice differs from discrimination in that it is:

Bill thinks that drug use is bad,but he has friends who use illicit drugs and he sometimes gets high himself.Socializing with drug users and using drugs himself illustrate which component of attitude?

The tendency for people to exaggerate the importance of their contributions in shaping events is termed ___________.