Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

Which of the following statements regarding follow-up studies on Milgram's obedience experiment is most accurate?

The factor of perceived responsibility is most closely associated with which of the following?

Norman Triplett accurately predicted that bicycle racing times would be faster when individuals raced in groups.This effect is currently explained by the modern construct called ______________.

The tendency for members of a group to suspend critical thinking because they are striving for agreement is specifically called:

Groupthink occurs when the average opinion of a group of like-minded individuals becomes more extreme after discussing an issue.

Cognitive dissonance theory best explains the relationship between attitudes and behaviour when counterattitudinal behaviours do not threaten one's self-worth or when the attitudes that are initially held are weak or unclear.

Self-perception theory asserts that counterattitudinal behaviour often serves to change attitudes because of the uncomfortable state of emotional tension evoked by these behaviours.

The primacy effect refers to people's tendency to attach more importance to the initial information that they learn about someone.

Carl Word and his colleagues found that White university students who were assumed to already hold prejudiced attitudes sat further away,conducted briefer interviews,and made more speech errors when interviewing black students.Which of the following constructs most readily explains the results from this study?

The research of Richard LaPiere demonstrated that there was a rather surprising discrepancy between people's ____________ and their ___________.

___________ refers to the tendency for group members to suspend critical thinking in order to achieve agreement.

The central route to persuasion has been found to be the most effective for people who:

The belief that prejudice is created by people's need to feel good about themselves is proposed by _______________.

A new babysitter is warned by a child's parents that their son is very aggressive and loud.As a result of this initial expectation,the babysitter behaves in such a way that these very behaviours are evoked from the child,thus confirming what the sitter was initially told.This example best demonstrates the phenomenon called:

The illusion of unanimity and self-censorship are most relevant to which of the following?

Which of the following is one of the two primary ways that the bystander effect can inhibit people from helping others?

Unprovoked aggressive acts that are designed to establish a dominance hierarchy among members of a particular species are called social aggression and are attributed to higher levels of __________.

A positive or negative evaluative reaction towards a stimulus is a(n)________.

Self-perception theory asserts that:

A person goes to a scary movie on a date.Afterwards,she misinterprets her increased emotional arousal from the movie as being due to the fact that she must be highly attracted to her date.This phenomenon is known as _____________.