Social Psychology

Question 1

Elaboration Likelihood Model

Answer 1

There are two routes of communication: a central route and a peripheral route.
A listener is most likely to be perceptive to persuasion via the peripheral route when:

• the communicator is appealing (e.g., is of high status), - The listener is uninvolved with the message or is distracted,
• The message appeals to fear.
  A listener is most likely to be receptive to persuasion vai the central route when:
• The message has RELEVANCE to the recipient

Question 2

Piferi, Jobe, and Jones (2006) asked college students why they donated money or provided other assistance to victims of 9/11. The results of a follow-up study indicated that students who gave which of the following reasons were most likely to continue to give assistance one year later?

Answer 2

• Relieve others’ distress was cited as reasons for still giving one year later

Question 3

Actor-Observer Bias

Answer 3

refers to a tendency to attribute one’s own actions to external causes while attributing other people’s behaviors to internal causes. It is a type of attributional bias that plays a role in how we perceive and interact with other people.

Question 4

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 4

Tendencies to make DISPOSITIONAL attributions to another rather than SITUATIONAL. (Audience disliking actor due to role they played, attributing the character’s traits to the person rather than the fact that they were acting

Question 5

Culturally encapsulated psychologist

Answer 5

Interprets/defines client’s realities through their own assumptions

Question 6

Deindividuation

Answer 6

loss of self- awareness in groups (reserved kid turns belligerent at concert w others)

Question 7

Adolescent antisocial behavior is most common in those under what parenting style?

Answer 7

Rejecting-Neglecting

Question 8

In adolescence, siblings usually tend towards what changes in their relationships with other siblings?

Answer 8

More distant and less intense

Question 9

Social Facilitation Theory

Answer 9

Predicts that the mere presence of others will increase the likelihood that the dominant response will be activated.

Question 10

According to Hostile Attribution Bias:

Answer 10

Aggressive children are more likely than Non-Aggressive children to interpret the ambiguous actions of peers as intentionally hostile.

Question 11

Cognitive Dissonance Theory and this theory share the idea that an uncomfortable experience or sensation is the primary cause of attitude change.

Answer 11

Balance Theory

Question 12

Primary and Recency effects

Answer 12

Usually the first speaker is most memorable

Question 13

Social Exchange Theory states what?

Answer 13

Predicts the decision to stay or leave a relationship is due to the perceived costs and awards of the relationship

Question 14

Impact of Social Roles on Behavior was looked at with which study and buy whom?

Answer 14

Zimbardo’s Prison Study

People will behave sometimes in irrational ways under certain conditions based on roles given to them by society in

Question 15

Bandura’s Social Learning Theory applied in a work setting would look like what?

Answer 15

BEHAVIORAL

Question 16

Idiosyncratic Credit

Answer 16

Describes an individual’s capacity to acceptably deviate from group expectations. Idiosyncrasy credits are increased each time an individual conforms to a group’s expectations, and decreased each time an individual deviates from a group’s expectations