Exam 12: Social Psychology

You are in the market for a new car.You go from dealer to dealer and find they all follow the same procedure: every salesperson offers you a soda and asks you to take a test drive.Which two psychological techniques are behind the offer of the soda and the test drive?

Which statement is more likely to be true concerning attributions made by Americans versus Chinese people?

While watching Jeopardy,your roommate says,"Alex Trebek knows all the answers.He must be a genius." You tell your roommate she probably would not have said that if she had attended class the day the instructor discussed the topic of ______.

When we make situational attributions we are identifying the cause of an action as something _____.

In Zimbardo's prison study,male college students agreed to participate in a two-week experiment to discover what would happen when they took on the roles of prisoners and guards.After the prisoners staged a revolt,the researchers found that _______________.

The hormone associated with aggression seems to be ___________.

How are proximity to others and attraction correlated?

After a group of gang members learned that their friend had died in a seemingly random accident,several of the friends started blaming a rival gang for the death.Even though there was no evidence whatsoever that the death had been intentional,the more the friends talked the more passionate they became in their belief that an act of revenge was necessary.What concept from social psychology may contribute to an act of violent revenge in this case?

Imagine 100 individuals are asked to take part in a replication of Milgram's famous study on obedience.How are these 100 people likely to respond?

Of the following,a ________ would probably not be viewed as a 'compliance professional.'

A teacher decides against assigning group projects in which all group members get the same grade.What social psychological phenomenon might the teacher be concerned about?

A bank loan officer thinks people who speak with an accent are lazy;consequently,he refuses to grant them loans.The loan officer's belief is an example of _____ .His refusal to grant them loans is an example of _____.

Because of the way that they lead to discrimination,stereotypes are always negative.

What actual event could have been predicted based on the results of Zimbardo's classic prisoner study at Stanford University?

Stereotypes assume that members of the same group must have distinct differences between them.