Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

According to the text,remaining independent in the face of pressure,being consistent over time,and appearing to maintain an open mind are all factors that are most relevant to:

Within the context of a person trying to explain why she did well on a psychology exam,a personal attribution is to a situational attribution as:

Performing an act of aggression discharges aggressive energy and temporarily reduces our impulse to aggress,according to Sigmund Freud's principle of __________________.

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

You are conducting a conformity experiment patterned after the one utilized by Solomon Asch.Under which of the following conditions would you expect conformity to be the highest? When:

Attitudes are relatively good predictors of future behaviour when people have positive attitudes toward their behaviour,when subjective norms support their attitudes,and when they believe that their behaviour is under their personal control.This is known as:

Alison is at a workshop where a presenter is attempting to persuade people to make a rather risky but potentially profitable financial investment.After carefully considering the presenter's arguments,Alison finds this person's idea sound and compelling and decides to invest.This example best demonstrates the:

If you wanted to predict whether someone would buy Tropicana orange juice,you should assess the attitudes toward:

John is set up for a blind date.He hears that his date is friendly and fun.Because of these expectations he smiles when he meets her and he is relaxed.Because he smiles and is relaxed,she smiles and is relaxed.John thinks that,yes,she is friendly and fun.This would be an example of:

The assertion that people should help others and contribute to the welfare of the society is asserted by the _____________,and was mentioned as one of the social learning/cultural factors that may contribute to ___________.

Your mother is confident that the reason you do well in school is because you are smart.She is making a(n)________________ attribution for your performance.

According to the text,the sets of norms that specify how people in a particular social position are expected to behave are called the social ___________.

Parents warn a new babysitter 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 catharsis principle predicts that media violence should serve to ____________ the tendency to aggress but/and the social learning view asserts that media violence serves to ____________ the tendency to act aggressively.

The technique that involves an initial large request followed by a smaller request is a(n)__________________ technique.

When we perceive that someone's negative behaviour toward us was intended or controllable,we are more likely to __________.As people who are generally angry and aggressive tend to perceive others as __________,this may contribute to a vicious cycle of aggression.

When a persuader gets you to commit to some action and then-before you actually perform the behaviour-the cost is increased,s/he is using the _________________ technique.

Based on his research,John Gottman (1998)concluded that marital satisfaction and divorce rates can both be predicted with about ______ accuracy.

Which of the following brain regions has been shown by animal research to be involved in aggression?

Research suggests that which of the following faces would be rated as most attractive?