Exam 13: D: Social Psychology

"Mommy,Mommy,Mommy," your young son asks frantically."Can we please buy a new Xbox console with all of the games and the wireless controllers so that we don't have to sit near the television?" "No," you reply,"we can't afford to buy all of that!" Seemingly unperturbed by your reject,your son comes back with "Then can we just buy one new game for the system we have?" "Okay,I guess so," you answer,not realizing that your son has used social psychological techniques and has just used the _____________ technique to get what he wanted.

It is 1951,and you are required to participate in a perception experiment.You join seven others seated in a room.You are shown a 25-cm test line and must choose the line that matches it in length from a choice of three lines.The experimenter,Solomon Asch,is studying

With respect to pseudoscience marketing techniques to falsely enhance persuasion,_______ capitalizes on the idea that if many people believe it,it must be true.

Which statement provides an explanation of the fundamental attribution error?

Zimbardo is to ________________ as Milgram is to _________________.

A woman reportedly gets stuck to a toilet in an airplane bathroom for several hours after flushing the toilet created a vacuum-like force that bound her to the seat.This,and other false stories,are known as

Attitudes that can be strongly predictive of our behaviour are those that are

Social psychology is best defined as the scientific study of

Prejudice arises from a need to blame other groups for our present misfortunes according to the

According to the ______________ model of persuasion,there are two alternative pathways that can be used to persuade others.

Which of the following examples best reflects the name-letter effect?

Females engage in higher rates of _____________ aggression than males.

The prime minister notices that his closest advisers never seem to disagree with him or with each other on a lot of important issues,such as arms control.He worries that he is not getting the pros and cons of different issues because his advisers are engaging in

Which social psychology theory best explains the fact that the majority of the riots that took place following the trial of the police officers accused of beating Rodney King did not take place in white neighbourhoods,but rather in the neighbourhoods of Asian Americans and Asians who had recently immigrated to the United States?

The Walkerton,Ontario,E.coli fiasco was the result of

Examples such as UFO sightings,cow mutilations by aliens,and crop circles demonstrate how _________________ can lead to mass hysteria and collective delusions.

When members of a group give priority to the cohesiveness of the group over the facts of a situation,they are engaging in what social psychologists call

Research suggests that cults promote groupthink in the following ways except

________________ is the tendency of people to engage in atypical behaviour when stripped of their usual identities.

In Solomon Asch's study,which factor increased the rate of conformity?