Chapter 13 Quiz Flashcards
If we encounter a person who appears to be high on drugs, and we make the fundamental attribution error, we will probably attribute the person’s behavior to:
moral weakness or an addictive personality.
Jacqui become aware that her attitudes and her actions clashed, so tried to reduce the discomfort by attempting to change her attitude. In this example Jacqui was experiencing:
cognitive dissonance
In the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, students played roles of either prison guards or prisoners. The study had to be called off after 6 days because the “guards”:
became abusive toward the “prisoners.”
TRUE or FALSE: Asch’s conformity experiments demonstrated that individuals will sometimes knowingly provide an incorrect answer if they see that everyone else in the group has provided that same incorrect answer.
True
In Milgram’s experiments, the rate of compliance was highest when:
the “learner” was at a distance from the “teacher.”
The other-race effect occurs when we assume that other groups are __________ (more/less) homogeneous than our own group.
More
Evidence of a biochemical influence on aggression is the finding that:
a higher-than-average level of the hormone testosterone is associated with violent behavior in males.
Studies show that parents of delinquent young people tend to use beatings to enforce discipline. This suggests that aggression can be:
learned through observation of aggressive models.
After vigorous exercise, you meet an attractive person, and you are suddenly seized by romantic feelings for that person. This response supports the two-factor theory of emotion, which assumes that emotions, such as passionate love, consist of physical arousal plus:
our interpretation of that arousal.
The bystander effect states that a particular bystander is less likely to give aid if:
other people are present.
