Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

The tendency to be more alert to information that is received first and the tendency for initial information to shape how subsequent information is perceived may both help to explain:

A generalized belief about a group or a category of people is defined as a ____________.

When a group of like-minded people gathers and discusses an issue,the group's opinion,attitude,or decision may become more extreme through the processes of normative social influence and informational social influence.

Sternberg's triangular theory of love can best be viewed as taking the original passionate-companionate love distinction and:

The assumption that life is fair and that people get what they deserve and also deserve what they get is the ___________.

You are conducting a conformity experiment patterned after the one utilized by Asch.Under which of the following conditions would you expect conformity to be the highest (i.e. ,the most people will conform)?

The fact that people may want to be judged positively by the company they keep was one of the reasons offered as to why people desire to affiliate with people who are _________.

Based on the research examining the factors that contribute to affiliation,it appears that the statement "opposites attract" is most accurate.

Juan is in the process of forming an opinion about someone when a friend,who is taking a psychology class,tells him to avoid making snap judgements and to carefully consider the evidence.The net result of this advice is that Juan feels more accountable for his opinions.The advice of Juan's friend should most likely decrease:

Madeline and Matthew are both committed to making their relationship work.Whether or not they are successful may be determined by whether or not the rewards of the relationship outweigh the costs according to __________________.

Studies on the impact of similarity on interpersonal attraction have found that similarity:

Which of the following statements regarding the impact of media violence is most accurate?

The average attitude of generally like-minded people in a group becomes even more liberal over time in large part because several members of a group want to avoid the disapproval of other key group members.This tendency for attitudes to become more extreme is called group polarization,and in this case,it appears to have been produced by ________________.

One of the reasons that people are attracted to physically beautiful individuals is that:

When forming impressions of people,when people tend to attach more importance to initial information that is learned about a person,this is termed the ____________.

The principal has just told Mrs.Snyder,a kindergarten teacher,that a new little girl will be joining her kindergarten class.The little girl is African-American and Mrs.Snyder believes that African-American children are not as bright as European-American children.Consequently,when speaking to the little girl,Mrs.Snyder speaks slower and tends not to explain answers to the little girls questions in as much detail as she does to other children.In fact,the little girl is very bright but in responding to Mrs.Snyder in the way Mrs.Snyder expects,the little girl's grades begin to slip downward.The little girl appears to have entered into a __________________.

Which of the following factors that increase the impact of minority opinions may be the most influential factor?

Think back to the example in the textbook,when Kim says that Art 391 is boring.Under which of the following conditions are we most likely to make a situational attribution that Art 391 is indeed boring?

Pat smokes cigarettes and strongly believes that doing so is bad for one's health.On a health questionnaire,Pat initially answered "No" to the question,"Do you engage in any health-harming behaviours?" Pat felt uncomfortable with that answer and changed it to "Yes." Of the alternatives below,Pat's answer-changing behaviour best reflects the notion of:

Studies have revealed that when identical and fraternal twins are compared,the identical twins are more similar in their _____________ behaviours.