Exam 9: Cognitive Motivation: Social Motivation and Consistency

In social facilitation, _____ tends to trigger whatever response is dominant.

The first _____ theory was developed by Fritz Heider.

Reduced helping in the presence of others is called:

Presenting people with very large requests, followed by a second smaller request is called the:

In helping behavior situations with high danger to the victim, the bystander effect:

Which of the following did Asch NOT find was a factor that affected conformity motivation?

An Olympic athlete's tendency to do better when competing against others directly than when practicing alone is due to:

Individuals who expend more effort than others to achieve a desired goal are:

In Darley and Batson's (1976) study of seminary students, the level of helping was most influenced by:

In Heider's _____ theory, relationships between people and objects may be positive or negative.

A relationship is said to be unbalanced if a married couple:

Other people seek our _____ when they want us to change our behavior in response to a direct request.

Which of the following is NOT one of the factors Milgram identified in his obedience study?

. One way in which an individual can yield to conformity is by assuming that the group is right and that he or she is incorrect. This is called:

In Festinger and Carlsmith's study, the $1 group had insufficient _____ for engaging in behavior contrary to their attitudes about the experiment, thus causing them to enjoy the experiment more.

In Festinger and Carlsmith's experiment, which group rated the experiment ass the most enjoyable?

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons for not helping in an emergency?

A change in behavior in response to a direct order is called:

Charlie smokes but believes smoking causes cancer. In order to reduce cognitive dissonance, he decides that smoking does not really cause cancer. What has he changed to reduce dissonance?

People who reduce their fat intake to reduce dissonance associated with diet and heart disease are using which of the following dissonance reducing techniques?