Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

Results from the Irwin and Gross study examining the impact of two different video games on aggressive behaviour obtained all of the following results for boys who played the violent video games EXCEPT:

The results of the famous Stanford Prison study may have been due in large part to _____________,which refers to how people can lose their sense of personal identity and self-awareness as a result of the anonymity provided by being in a large group of people.

If an individual sees a member of an out-group as threatening,it is expected that the ________ will show more activation.

Imagine that you have just arrived at university and are living in a dorm.You meet someone who is physically attractive and you'd like to get to know this person better.After a long dinner conversation,you learn that this person shares many of your attitudes and beliefs,but is only visiting and happens to live on the other side of the province.Based on the factors that have been shown to predict interpersonal attraction,your similarity to this person would be likely to increase your feelings of attraction,and the fact that they live far way would be likely to __________ your feelings of attraction.

Research indicates that the primary aspect of deindividuation that disinhibits behaviour is:

Under which of the following conditions would we expect the presence of other people to have the strongest negative effect on performance?

Which of the following brain regions is known to be involved in aggression?

At times,people tend to underestimate the impact of situational factors and overestimate the impact of personal factors when explaining other people's behaviours.This is termed a ___________.

Repeated exposure to a stimulus tends to increase people's liking for it is a phenomenon called ________________.

A young child decides to dress more like his peers in order to avoid their rejection and teasing.This child is best demonstrating the effect of:

Crowding and heat were mentioned as two environmental factors that increase the likelihood of __________.

Research studies have determined that levels of conformity tend to be ___________ between individualistic cultures compared to collectivist cultures.

According to marital researcher Gottman,what are the four behaviours (termed the "Four Horseman of the Apocalypse")that are significantly associated with poor marital outcomes?

Wood and colleagues found that minority influence is strongest when it remains independent of majority pressure.

The tendency to prefer people in a group to which we belong and to attribute more positive qualities to people in this group is called:

The norm of social responsibility,which asserts that people should help others and contribute to the welfare of society,was mentioned as one of the social /cultural factors that may or may not contribute to __________.

Which of the following was mentioned as one of the ways that media violence can increase the likelihood of aggressive behaviour?

Research has determined that the impact of a minority influence on a group is largest when:

In both humans and animals,it appears that in acts of impulsive aggression,low levels of the neurotransmitter ___________ may play a role.

According to _____________ theory,prejudice is motivated by the competition for limited resources.