Chapter 13 - Social Psychology Flashcards
How many of the subjects in Milgram’s obedience study gave the highest level of shock?
a. about 1/3
b. about 1/2
c. about 2/3
d. about 3/4
about 2/3
What are the two types of causal attributions that people make?
a. dispositional and situational
b. environmental and situational
c. personality traits and dispositional
d. nature and nurture
dispositional and situational
Doni enters an elevator and she continues facing the back instead of turning around to face the elevator door. In this example,
a. Doni has violated a role.
b. Doni has violated a stereotype.
c. Doni has violated a norm.
d. Doni has violated her gender role.
Doni has violated a norm.
The primary reason why most people obey is that they:
a. are deeply convinced of the authority’s legitimacy.
b. are impulsive and don’t think through their actions.
c. were taught that disobedience is sinful.
d. don’t realize that someone might suffer through their actions.
are deeply convinced of the authority’s legitimacy.
Which of the following is an example of entrapment?
a. A friend convinces you that it would be fun to stand backwards in the checkout line of the grocery store, and before you know it, other customers are gawking at you.
b. A friend suggests that in auditioning for the part of James Bond in a local production, you should emphasize his fears as well as his strengths, and before you know it, you are laughed off stage.
c. A friend states that just because you are the bride there is no reason that you, rather than the groom, should write the thank-you cards, and before you know it, you are getting the blame.
d. A friend who is moving asks you to bring over a few empty boxes; when you arrive he asks you to fill the boxes with dishes, and before you know it, you’ve packed his kitchen.
A friend who is moving asks you to bring over a few empty boxes; when you arrive he asks you to fill the boxes with dishes, and before you know it, you’ve packed his kitchen.
Social __________ refers to the effect of social influence on thought, memory, perception, and beliefs.
a. entrapment
b. attribution
c. attitudes
d. cognition
cognition
A person approaches you and your friend for some money. When your friend refuses to give him any money, you attribute your friend’s behavior to her inherently greedy nature. A social psychologist is likely to say that you have just made a(n):
a. false attribution.
b. external attribution.
c. dispositional attribution.
d. situational attribution.
dispositional attribution.
Janis, an administrative assistant at a London firm, is trying to find reasons for her supervisor’s behavior. She is likely to:
a. overestimate her supervisor’s personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation.
b. leap to the attribution that her supervisor’s behavior corresponds to work demands.
c. explore the personality traits and the environmental constraints to derive an explanation.
d. ignore dispositional attributions in favor of situational attributions.
overestimate her supervisor’s personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation.
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, used a technique called the “Big Lie”. He knew that people begin to believe that a statement is true simple because it has been repeated a number of times. The formal name for this technique is:
a. the familiarity effect.
b. diffusion of responsibility.
c. the validity effect.
d. symbolic racism.
the validity effect.
Coercive persuasion involves all of the following EXCEPT:
a. there is no one simple explanation given for a person’s problems.
b. the person is isolated.
c. the person is subjected to entrapment.
d. the leader promises salvation.
there is no one simple explanation given for a person’s problems.
Angela is a participant in an experiment and joins seven other students seated in a room. She is shown a 10-inch test line and must choose the line that matches it in length from a choice of three lines. The experimenter, Solomon Asch, is interested in studying:
a. visual perception.
b. depth perception.
c. conformity.
d. absolute threshold.
conformity.
Lucas is making his way across a busy campus between classes. He notices smoke coming from the side of the cafeteria but figures that someone already called the fire department. What phenomenon does this illustrate?
a. diffusion of responsibility
b. self-serving bias
c. deindividuation
d. just-world hypothesis
diffusion of responsibility
The statement “All academics are socially inept” provides an example of the summary impression called:
a. mental set.
b. stereotype.
c. mindlessness.
d. discrimination.
stereotype.
Your friend tells you they are developing a crush on their neighbor. After taking Dr. Gelech’s psychology course, you tell your friend that they are likely experiencing the ________________ effect.
a. evolutionary attraction
b. sociobiology
c. marketplace
d. homophily or mere-exposure
homophily or mere-exposure
As you walk through the mall, someone hands you a free popcorn sample and begins to tell you about a sale they are having. The free sample is meant to exploit the:
a. scarcity effect
b. social proof effect
c. reciprocity effect
d. tipping effect
reciprocity effect
