Social Pyschology Quiz

Question 0

What is the maligrAm study ?

Answer 0

Experiment where college students were put in jobs of authority

Question 1

What is the zimbardo experiment?

Answer 1

Experiment regarding obedience that resulting ppl obeying the professor when told to shock the person to the extreme

Question 2

What is social Loafing?

Answer 2

Tendency for people in a group to exert to less effort

Question 3

What is deindivduation?

Answer 3

Loss of self awareness and self restraint occurring in a group situations. Ppl lose sense of responsibility in groups

Question 4

What is group think

Answer 4

Mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision

Question 5

What is self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 5

When we believe something to be true about others (or ourselves) and we act in ways that cause this belief to come true

Question 6

What is cognitive dissonance

Answer 6

Act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of thoughts (cognition) are inconsistent. When attitudes are inconsistent with our actions we change our attitudes to reduce dissonance