Exam 10: Behavior in Social and Cultural Context

The theory that addresses the question of how people make judgments about the causes of behavior is __________ theory.

Individuals who made predictions about Milgram's study on obedience before it began all said they would disobey the authority figure early in the procedure.

Blaming the victim often results when a person strongly believes in the

"Mary earns high grades because she is a genius" is an example of a

In the Milgram experiment on obedience,the _______ was a confederate of the experimenter.

Your textbook describes 25 men who served as Greek military police.At first the men were only ordered to stand guard outside while people were being tortured.Over time,they were ordered to play a larger and larger role,until they found it fairly easy to torture another human being.What concept does their story demonstrate?

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

Research on contemporary suicide bombers indicates that they are often

According to your textbook,more than half of hotel guests agree to reuse their towels when hotels put notices in guest bathrooms that say

Entrapment occurs when someone in authority asks you to do something,and you want to disobey,but instead you agree to do it.

If a person had a sudden appendicitis attack in a public place,she would be more likely to be helped if

Carlos and his work associates form a close,friendly group and they usually work well together.However,they may face a problem involving an extreme form of conformity called

Resistance to groupthink can be fostered by all of the following EXCEPT:

Cognitive dissonance is

According to the just-world hypothesis,attributions are affected by the need to believe that the world is fair,that justice prevails,and that good people are rewarded and bad guys punished.

Some psychological scientists maintain that ideological belief systems may have evolved in human societies to be organized along a left-right dimension,consisting of what two core sets of attitudes?

Altruism is the willingness to take selfless or dangerous action on behalf of others.

Behavior that occurs when we change our actions or attitudes because of real or imagined group pressures is called

Which factor accounts for the greatest amount of variation in political attitude?

_______________ is defined as a gradual process in which individuals escalate their commitment to a course of action to justify their investment of time,money,or effort.