Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

People make judgements about the causes of their own and other people's behaviours.For these judgements,psychologists specifically use the term ____________________.

Studies showing that children who watch more violent TV programs are more likely to have committed a serious crime by the time they are 30 provide evidence that is most consistent with the ____________ view of aggression.

Out-group derogation specifically refers to the tendency to:

A man who works in a hostile environment shows little or no reaction when other individuals provoke or anger him.This continues for many years until finally one evening,he almost kills his neighbour after she unlocks the door to her apartment "too loudly." According to Edwin Megargee,this man would be said to have ____________ and provides evidence most consistent with the __________ model of aggression.

A generalized belief about a group or a category of people is best known as a ________________.

Physical attractiveness during the college years is unrelated to life satisfaction in middle age.

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 the _________________,and in this case,it appears to have been produced by the _________________.

The results of Albert Bandura's "Bobo doll" experiments demonstrated how ___________ can increase ______________.

You make sure that you look really nice,buy your parents lunch,and then start sobbing in front of them begging for a car.Which route to persuasion are you using?

If you have five people competing as one team in a tug-of-war contest,their combined effort level is likely to be:

Many studies suggest that the tendency to attribute other people's behaviour to personal factors may reflect Western society's emphasis on individualism.This finding is most useful when attempting to explain why the _________________ is less common in _______________ cultures.

Men are more likely than women to have sex with several different people because historically this made it possible for them to father more children,according to the _____________________.

Given the stereotype that "Blacks are not as intelligent as Whites," if the black students score as much as the white students on difficult questions,then the questions are described as being a(n)____________,which is a finding that is consistent with the ___________.

Participants in a study freely engage in a behaviour that is contrary to their attitudes.This behaviour causes an increase in physiological arousal,but the experimenter tells the participants that this arousal is the product of a pill (actually a placebo)that they have taken.Under these conditions,we would not expect participants to change their attitudes to be more in line with their behaviour,a finding that is most consistent with:

Muzafer Sherif found that when groups of people viewed a stationary dot of light in a dark room,the people perceived the dot to move in a phenomenon called _____________.When comparing their experiences in small groups,after viewing the dot,groups came to slightly different conclusions regarding how much the dot had moved which provided some insight into how _________ are formed.

Social loafing is to ______________ as social compensation is to ______________.

Which of the following statements regarding physical attractiveness is FALSE?

The fact that Japanese individuals typically sit farther apart when conversing than Americans do and that the Greeks are more likely than the Western Europeans to touch during a social interaction are best considered as examples of:

Cognitive dissonance theory and self-perception theory are similar in that both:

People tend to underestimate the impact of situational factors and overestimate the impact of personal factors when explaining other people's behaviours,according to the ___________________.