Exam 13: C: Social Psychology

____ is helping others for unselfish reasons.

____ theory suggests that we acquire our attitudes by observing our behaviours.

The ____ suggests that we,humans,have a biologically based need for interpersonal connections.

The process of assigning causes to behaviour is called ____.

Nokia,Billy,Jamal,and Samara are assigned a group project.Jamal ends up doing almost the entire project because the others did not contribute much to the project.This phenomenon is known as ____.

____ theory suggests that we don't really change our attitudes,but that we report that we have done so,so as to appear consistent.

A persuasive technique involving asking for a small request before asking for a bigger one is called the ____.

____ is a phenomenon that occurs when the more people there are at the scene of an emergency,the less each person feels responsible for the negative consequences of not helping.

____ is an evolutionary principle that creates a predisposition toward distrusting anything or anyone unfamiliar or different.

The ____ is a persuasive technique involving having someone agree to a request and then revealing that there are additional hidden obligations.

The ____ is a persuasive technique that involves making an unreasonably large request before making the small request you are hoping to have granted.

People from southern regions of the United States are more likely than people from other regions of the country to adhere to a ____,a social norm of defending one's reputation in the face of a perceived insult.

People,over the years,have claimed to see flying saucers.This is an example of ____.

The ____ suggests that we're more positively disposed toward people,places,or things that resemble us.

____ is the tendency to engage in uncharacteristic behaviour when people are stripped of their usual identities.

The ____ is an approach to convincing someone to change his or her mind about something by first introducing reasons why the perspective might be correct.

____ is an emphasis on group unanimity at the expense of critical thinking.

____ is the tendency of people to change their behaviour as a consequence of group behaviour.

When Corinna was young,she repeatedly heard the story that Walt Disney had been frozen,and that when scientists find a cure for the disease he died from,they will bring him back to life.This is an example of a(n) ____.

The ____ refers to the tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional influences on others' behaviour.