Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

Research that paired homosexual men together for a date found that the men's liking for their partner and desire to date them again were most strongly influenced by:

The tendency to prefer people in a group to which we already belong and to attribute more positive qualities to these individuals is called in-group favouritism.

Social comparison can have the most negative impact on helping behaviour at which stage in the helping process?

The _________________ refers to the tendency of people to view individuals outside their group as being more similar to each other than are members of their own group.

You are leading a group of 25 adults on a tour of your campus and as you pass the tennis courts,you all stop to watch.Half of the courts contain students who are just to play tennis,while next to them are several exceptional tennis players from your college tennis team.According to the social facilitation effect,which of the following would you expect?

A group of public officials is meeting to decide what to do about a budget shortage.The principle of group polarization would predict that this group of people would be most likely to reach a highly conservative decision if:

According to Sternberg,consummate love occurs when all forms of love are present in a relationship.This is the ________.

According to this theory,attitudes are relatively good predictors of future behaviour when people have positive attitudes towards their behaviours,when subjective norms support their attitudes,and when they believe that behaviours are under their personal control.This is the ______________.

Aaron has been trying to improve his time in the 100 metre run.He often practices at the track late at night with his girlfriend timing him.To his amazement,when his friend,Benjamin,who is an excellent runner,volunteers to run with him,his time actually ______________.

Which of the following was mentioned as one of the factors that can increase obedience?

The peripheral route to persuasion is said to occur when people are persuaded because:

Suppose you were designing an obedience study and wanted to reduce or lower the obedience rates found by Milgram.Which of the following would most likely generate the results you want?

The tendency for the average opinion in a group of like-minded individuals to become more extreme after discussing an issue is called __________________.

All of the following are gender differences that have been found with regard to important characteristics for dating partners and spouses EXCEPT:

Before asking you for a favour,your roommate vacuums the apartment and cleans the bathroom.Which of the following persuasion techniques is your roommate using?

In the Roland Irwin and Alan Gross (1995)study discussed in the text,children who played a violent video game were ____________ likely to be aggressive.

Nora was driving the store clerk crazy! She was trying to find a swimsuit to take on vacation with her next week and not one suit she tried on flattered her figure at all.Nora,attributing the problem to the fact that manufacturers are not making swimsuits in flattering styles anymore,may be exhibiting:

Realistic conflict theory originally assumed that prejudice was primarily caused by an actual threat to one's personal welfare,but research indicates that it is more strongly triggered by ________________.

In the case of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster,the NASA official who gave the final go-ahead for the mission was never informed about the many engineers who strongly opposed the launch.The fact that this information never reached the official best illustrates which of the following groupthink processes?

Social exchange theory offered an explanation for the possible factors that: