Exam 10: Behavior in Social and Cultural Context

Jimmy and Janie believe all women are nurturing,moral,and beautiful,and therefore should not enter into a "rough-and-tumble" professional lifestyle that involves power.Jimmy and Janie demonstrate

Simply exposing people repeatedly to a product can make them like that product more.

Adora and Yvette,and twelve of their closest friends from college,are planning to go to Key West during spring break.As members of the anonymous crowd of college students,Adora and Yvette will most likely

Which of the following statements about attitudes is true?

A norm is a given social position that is governed by a set of rules for proper behavior.

The philosopher Hannah Arendt,when covering the trial of Adolf Eichmann,used the phrase the banality of evil to explain how this Nazi officer supervised the deportation and death of millions of Jews.What did she mean by this phrase?

When the seven confederates chose the line that was obviously wrong in Solomon Asch's famous experiment,he found that

___________ consists of a negative stereotype and a strong,unreasonable dislike or hatred of a group.

Most people are overly pessimistic about their own abilities,competence,and other good qualities.

When we make dispositional attributions we are identifying the cause of an action as something

Research on us-them social identities shows that

Milgram concluded that obedience in his study was a function of

Which of the following describes "diffusion of responsibility"?

Distinguish between ethnic identity and ethnocentrism.

Discuss why it is difficult to measure prejudice today by directly asking individuals if they are prejudiced,and distinguish between explicit and implicit prejudice.Then,discuss four clever ways psychologists have for measuring implicit forms of prejudice.

In Milgram's obedience study,many participants who administered the highest shock adopted the attitude "It's his problem,I'm just following orders." This is an example of

An attitude is a belief about people,groups,ideas,or activities.

_______________ is a tendency for all people on a team or a mission together to agree with each other and suppress any dissension among their ranks.

Deindividuation would be most likely to occur

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