Exam 13: social Psychology

The insula located beneath the frontal cortex is involved in empathy.

Imagine you are a school teacher and you are assigning a group project.Which of the following would most reduce social loafing?

What is the difference between a situational and a dispositional attribution?

After a motor vehicle accident,Veronica CANNOT seem to make accurate moral decisions.Veronica probably sustained damage to the ___.

Ariba is participating in a replication of Asch's study.Which of the following manipulations would decrease the tendency for her to conform?

Which of the following factors does NOT lead to an increase in aggression?

Carlos asks his colleague for two dollars to buy a cup of coffee.After his colleague says yes,he then asks for ten dollars to buy a sandwich as well.Which of the following persuasion techniques is Carlos using?

When others are present,we may feel that we do NOT bear the burden of responsibility to act.This is known as diffusion of ___.

Jillian and ten of her friends volunteer every year to put together baskets for families in need.They complete the task using an assembly-line type of system,so the task is completed quickly and efficiently.This would be an example of a/an ___ task.

Aina and Josefa want to encourage their children to do well in school and develop an internal sense of academic pride.Which of the following is most likely to produce that result?

Name the structure that is involved in eliciting emotional states from other people.

In an experiment by Jones and Harris,people were presented with either a pro-Castro speech or an anti-Castro speech.When people were told that the pro-Castro writer's position had been assigned,NOT chosen,people

Bruce was shocked when he saw a nun throw her gum wrapper on the sidewalk.This is because

Which of the following cases is the best example of self-perception theory?

Rosalie scored very well on her first test.She told others that her success was due to her hard study efforts.When she failed the next test,she attributed it to the test being too difficult.What form of attribution bias does this describe?

Communal gender roles are associated with aggression and control.

Gil runs in local marathons.Whenever he wins,Gil congratulates himself for training so hard.Whenever he loses,however,Gil consoles himself by telling himself that his job has kept him so busy he has NOT been able to train enough recently.Gil is exhibiting ___.

Suppose that Omer was a participant in the Stanford Prison experiment.Although the experiment was planned to take 14 days,Omer ended up participating to the conclusion of the experiment,or for

Describe the mechanism proposed by Zajonc to explain social facilitation.

Which brain structure(s)that is/are active during social cognition is/are larger in humans than in other animals?