Exam 13: social Psychology

In one experiment,Darley and Latané placed participants in a room to work on a task and then caused smoke to enter the room.People working alone went to report the problem ___ percent of the time; people working in groups reported the problem ___ percent of the time.

In Asch's conformity experiment,

Describe three factors that may reduce people's willingness to obey authority.

The part of the brain that is believed to be involved in helping us identify the emotional facial expressions of other people is the ___.

According to Freud,love is a(n)___ sexual energy in which sexual desire is transformed into a socially acceptable form.

Generalized impressions of groups of people based on the social category they occupy are known as ___.

The tendency to use dispositional attributions to explain the behaviour of other people is called

What is a social norm?

Speaking broadly,individualistic cultures view conformity ___; collective cultures view conformity ___.

Which of the following is true about the frequency of aggressive incidents?

The structure involved in the control of emotions and identifying emotional facial expressions is the ___.

What is the label applied to acts that are designed to reduce one's own personal distress or to receive rewards?

Which of the following products is most likely to be marketed using the central route to persuasion?

Name the three elements of love popularized by Rubin.

A group is best defined as

Regarding gender differences in emotional sensitivity,researchers believe that

The Kitty Genovese murder and subsequent research helped psychologists understand that when people fail to help others,it is usually because

Which of the following people is most likely to change her attitude?

Agreed-on expectations about what members of a group are expected to do are known as ___ norms.

When Yuki suggests her twelve-year-old daughter invite her school friend,Agathe to the house,her daughter responds,"She made me so angry! I'm NOT speaking to her." Yuki's daughter is exhibiting ___.