Exam 2 Jeapordy

Question 1

According to Festinger, what is the most efficient way to reduce dissonance?

Answer 1

Change cognitions

Question 2

According to Aronson, what is required for dissonance?

Answer 2

It must threaten a concept of the self:
I am a good person
I am a competent person
I am a reasonable person

Question 3

What theory that explains dissonance findings as self‐discovery rather than self‐justification?

Answer 3

Self-Perception Theory

Question 4

What are the three components of an attitude?

Answer 4

Affective
Behavioral
Cognitive

Question 5

What is the defining feature of an attitude?

Answer 5

The evaluative component

Question 6

According to the theory of planned behavior, what best predicts behavior?

Answer 6

Intention

Question 7

What three factors influence intention?

Answer 7

Attitudes
Percieved Control
Subjective Norms

Question 8

What is the type of conformity caused by informational social influence and descriptive norms?

Answer 8

Private Conformity

Question 9

Why does public conformity occur?

Answer 9

Normative social influence

Question 10

What is a collective?

Answer 10

An assembly of people who are all doing the same activity but not interacting with each other.

Question 11

In the Stanford Prison Study, participants later reported forgetting who they really were and identifying with their Stanford Prison identities (e.g., “John Wayne,” Prisoner 416). This is known as __________.

Answer 11

Deindividuation

Question 12

According to Zajonc, what is the arousal in social facilitation?

Answer 12

The mere presence of others

Question 13

Name the three independent variables employed by impression management researchers who sought to demonstrate that cognitive dissonance effects were simply due to impression management concerns.

Answer 13

Bogus pipeline
Privacy of the dependent measure
Changing the researcher