Social Psychology CH 13, 14

Question 1

Blank psychology studies how behavior, thoughts and feelings are affected by: the presence and behavior of others, social features of the situation, and beliefs about other people.

Answer 1

Social

Question 2

This type of formation takes place in about 5 seconds. We need only thin slices of behavior to do this.

Answer 2

Impression formation

Question 3

Once we form impressions about people and believe something about them other information is encoded to support what you believe is called blank.

Answer 3

Conformation Bias

Question 4

Inferences about the causes of an observed behavior or event is called Blank.

Answer 4

Attribution

Question 5

Blank attributions is belief that a specific behavior is due to stable characteristcs (personality) of the person.

Answer 5

Person

Question 6

This type of attribution is a belief that a specific behavior is due to the characteristics of the current environment.

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Situation

Question 7

This is a tendency to attribute other people’s behavior to their personality or other stable characteristics rather than to the situation or context the person is in. This is learned over time, after age 8 and is pervasive in individualistic cultures but not collectivistic (stable role-oriented) cultures.

Answer 7

Fundamental Attribution Error (person bias)

Question 8

Blank is your motivation to feel good about yourself. Self serving bias in attributions about your behavior.

Answer 8

Perception of Self

Question 9

In perception of self, Blank is always related to your stable, personal characteristics and blank is attibuted to the context

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positive outcomes

Question 10

People have blank bias when they see themselves as better than average.

Answer 10

Systematic

Question 11

people receive which type of feedback more? Positive or Negative?

Answer 11

Positive

Question 12

This is happening when people feel obligated to return favors.

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reciprocity norm

Question 13

This is when a gift is given before making a reuqest; it’s effect is that it increases compliance. Large requests that are refused can increase compliance with a smaller request

Answer 13

pre-giving

Question 14

People are motivated to avoid or minimize the discomfort from their attitudes, beliefs, or behavior not harmonizing.

Answer 14

Cognitive Dissonance

Question 15

a public agreement to buy a product at a lower price increases the liklihood that they will buy it at a highter price.

Answer 15

low-ball tecnique

Question 16

an agreement to a small request that shows commitment to a specific attitude increases compliance to a larger request consistent w/that attitude

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foot-in-door tecnique

Question 17

people are motivated to BLANK to what others are doing or thinking.

Answer 17

conform

Question 18

blank is when you rely on the “wisdom” of the group when a situation is novel.

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informational influence

Question 19

this type of influence is adopting behaviors of the group to increase acceptance and feelings of closeness

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normative

Question 20

people are motivated to obey legitimate Blank.

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authority

Question 21

Blank are more likely to conform to authority.

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Females

Question 22

Physically attractive people are commonly judged as more intelligent, competent, sociable and moral than less attractive people. What is this called?

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Attractiveness Bias

Question 23

In a series of experiments conducted in the US and Korea, these types of adults were perceived as more naive, honest, helpless, kind and warm that mature faced adults of the same age and sex.

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baby faced (baby face bias)

Question 24

in experiments, people who met initially on the Blank liked each other more than people who initially met this way.

Answer 24

internet

face-to-face

Question 25

the group against whom the comparison is made is called….

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reference group

Question 26

blank are the schemas we have about groups of people. These can be explicit (conscious) or implicit (unconscious).

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stereotypes

Question 27

Implicit stereotypes are measured through blank and implicit association tests.

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priming

Question 28

blank attitudes - those formed through direct experience or repeated associaions-influence behavior automatically.

Answer 28

implicit

Question 29

early research suggested that blank attitudes correlate little if at all to actual behavior. subsequent research indicates that these attitutudes must be recalled and though about before they can affect behavior.

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explicit

Question 30

by using blank (if most people believe this it probobly is true) people can arrive at attitudes through superficial thought

Answer 30

heuristics

Question 31

when we freely and with little incentive do something contrary to an attitude, we may alter the attitude to better fit the action. this is called the blank

Answer 31

insufficient justification effect

Question 32

the presence of other can cause either improved performance, blank, or worsened performance, blank

Answer 32

social failitation

social interference

Question 33

the presence of others leads to heightened drive and arousal, which - in line with Zajonc’s theory - improves performance on blank tasks and worsens performance on blank tasks

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dominant

non-dominant

Question 34

blank anxiety is at lease part of th cause of social interference

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evaluation

Question 35

pressure to perform well can lead to a decline in performance or blank

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choking

Question 36

becuase of blank we consciously or unconsciously modify our behavior in order to influence other’s perceptions of us

Answer 36

social pressure

Question 37

public service messages can be made more effective if they portray the undesireable behavior as abnormal or blank

Answer 37

non-normative

Question 38

the more bystanders present at an emergency the less likely any of them are to help. this may be a result from both blank and blank influences

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informational and normative

Question 39

when most or all of the people in a group initially agree, group discussion typically moves them toward a more extreme version of their initial view - a phenomenon called

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group polorization

Question 40

blank occurs when group members are more concerned with group cohesion and unanimity than with genuine appraisal of various approaches to a problem.

Answer 40

groupthink