Exam 13: D: Social Psychology

Which factor significantly decreased the likelihood of conformity in Solomon Asch's studies?

Individuals who experienced panic and interpreted the 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds as genuine breaking news fell prey to the ___________________ and failed to consider alternative hypotheses for these events.

________ theory proposes that we don't really change our attitudes but that we report that we have done so to make our behaviours appear consistent with our attitudes.

All of the following statements about deindividuation are true except

You have just listened to your professor lecture for an hour about material that you find thoroughly confusing.When the professor asks if anyone has any questions,you look around to other students in the class but no one else puts up their hand so you assume you are the only one that is confused.This is an example of

Imagine you are a contestant on the popular game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire,and you have been asked a question that you don't know the answer to.You have used up your other two lifelines,so you poll the audience as to the correct answer.Even though you think differently,you become convinced that the audience is correct as 87 percent of them agree on a particular answer.You have experienced which psychological phenomenon?

The Robbers Cave experiment showed that

Which groups of persons with psychological disorders experience an absence of contagious yawning?

Both Nicole and Sandy need to buy a new cellphone.They get pamphlets on the top-selling phones,including the Samsung Galaxy and iPhone.Nicole decides to buy the iPhone simply because it is an Apple product and she has a crush on the salesman at her local store,whereas Sandy decides to purchase the iPhone after making a spreadsheet of the pros and cons of each phone and carefully weighing her options.In this example,Nicole is influenced by the ____________ route to persuasion and Sandy is influenced by the _____________ route to persuasion.

Amanda,Sarah,Jonas,and William have been assigned a group project.Amanda ends up doing most of the work while the others get the same grade as she.This is an example of

Cults are to _______________ as Abu Ghraib is to _______________.

Which of the following individuals is least likely to make the fundamental attribution error?

Two important lessons from research on prejudice and discrimination is that _______________ increases prejudice and ____________ helps to decrease prejudice.

The main task of the Solomon Asch studies was

Prejudice is a(n)_________,whereas discrimination is a(n)________.

Sherif's "Robbers" experiment demonstrated that prejudice can be reduced by

Research on cognitive dissonance theory suggests that people are unlikely to experience dissonance and change their cognitions or behaviour when they have _______________________.

One variation of the Milgram paradigm was the touch proximity condition,where teachers were required to hold the learner's hand down on the shock plate.What percentage of participants in this condition shocked the learner to a voltage of 450 volts?

You can teach people to resist the influences of cults by exposing them to information consistent with cult beliefs,and then debunking that information.This reflects the _____________________ and is effective at immunizing people from undesirable beliefs.

A social psychologist has been invited to give a community lecture on the importance of Milgram's research.He asks a social psychology class for suggested titles.Which of the following titles might they suggest as the most appropriate?