Exam 8: Behavior in Social and Cultural Context

The_______________ is a controversial method for measuring prejudice, which pairs positive and negative words with black or white faces and then measures the participant's reaction time.

When people are asked to think of heroes they personally know, they generally name only men.

Ethnocentrism can be reduced by:

Entrapment is a gradual process in which individuals escalate their commitment to a course of action to justify their investment of time, money, or effort.

Results of Stanley Milgram's study on obedience showed that:

Cognitive dissonance is:

Discuss why it is difficult to measure prejudice today by directly asking individuals if they are prejudiced, and distinguish between explicit and implicit prejudice. Then, discuss five clever ways psychologists have for measuring implicit forms of prejudice.

According to the textbook, the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba was a result of:

When President George W. Bush launched an invasion of Iraq, claiming that the country had weapons of mass destruction and was allied with Al-Qaeda, he and his team ignored evidence from intelligence agencies that neither claim was true. Some in the intelligence agencies attributed this error to a process called:

When a group believes that they are totally correct in all of their decisions, it is a sign that _____________ may be occurring.

A norm is a given social position that is governed by a set of rules for proper behavior.

Which of the following is a symptom of groupthink?

Before conducting his study of obedience, Stanley Milgram asked a number of psychiatrists, students, and other adults to predict how many people they thought would deliver shocks at the highest levels. What predictions did they make?

Who conducted an experiment on conformity in which people were asked to judge the length of lines?

The part of people's self-concept that is based on their identification with racial or ethnic groups is called their:

Describe the technique that Joseph Goebbels called "The Big Lie."

If a person had an epileptic seizure in a public place, she would be more likely to be helped if:

Describe the two general types of attributions people use to explain the behavior of themselves and others, and discuss key concepts in attribution theory, such as the fundamental attribution error, the self-serving bias, and the just-world hypothesis.

In variations of Stanley Milgram's study of obedience, people were more likely to disobey when the experimenter left the room.

Bystander apathy results from: