Exam 8: Behavior in Social and Cultural Context

When people are in large crowds and anonymous situations:

Who conducted the "obedience study" in which an authority figure commanded participants to violate their ethical standards?

Solomon Asch set up an experiment in which eight people were shown a 10-inch line, and they had to choose the line (from a group of three) that matched the original line in length. Through this experiment, Asch was studying:

According to C. P. Snow, "more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of ________ than in the name of rebellion."

Before Milgram's study of obedience began, psychiatrists predicted that one person in ten would administer the highest voltage.

When we make situational attributions, we are identifying the cause of an action as something:

From the standpoint of social and cultural psychology, some cultures and individuals are just inherently evil.

What criticisms have been raised regarding Milgram's comparison of his study with the brutality of the Nazis during World War II?

The part of a person's self-concept that is based on his or her identification with a nation, religious or political group, occupation, or other social affiliation is called:

Garret has a tendency to take credit for his good actions, but he attributes his mistakes to factors beyond his control. This is an example of:

When students were held as "prisoners" in the Stanford prison study, how did they respond during the first days of the experiment? Why did the researchers end the study at Day 6, instead of Day 14 as initially planned?

The "banality of evil" means that:

While stuck in a traffic jam, Yani notices a frustrated driver frequently honking his horn. Yani thinks to himself, "That driver is a real jerk!" This is an example of a _______________ attribution.

According to attribution theory, the explanations we give for our behavior and the behavior of others generally fall into two categories:

Which of the following is an example of entrapment as it relates to obedience?

In the Milgram study, under which of the following conditions were the participants (teachers) most likely to disobey orders from experimenters?

Janet, an administrative assistant at a London firm, is trying to find reasons for her boss's hostile behavior. She is likely to:

The social psychologists who conducted the Stanford prison study found dramatic results within a short period of time.

Explain the term "deindividuation" and how it affects people. Is the effect on behavior always the same, or can it vary?

In the Stanford prison study, male college students agreed to participate in a two-week experiment to discover what would happen when they took on the roles of prisoners and guards. The researchers found that: