Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

Having an authority figure who is physically close and who is perceived as legitimate were both mentioned as factors that increase:

If you wanted to increase the level of obedience in a standard Milgram experiment, which of the following would you do?

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

A person who changes her personal investment strategy based on the advice of her knowledgeable financial advisor is best demonstrating the power of social influence.

Sometimes people will live up to others' stereotypes of their group because of fear and self-consciousness. Why?

Elizabeth has every good intention of sticking to her New Year's diet resolution. However, Elizabeth does not believe that her weight is under her control, and she has a very negative attitude about eating less food every day. Which of the following statements best explains what will happen to Elizabeth?

All of your friends want to go out to the new Sushi restaurant for dinner. You don't. But you decide to go along anyway, even though you would prefer to go to the new steak house. Your behaviour is an example of

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

Kristin has been in a romantic relationship for several months. Initially, her feelings for her partner were very intense and ranged from ecstatic highs when seeing her partner to sometimes heart-breaking lows when her partner was away. These feelings have faded somewhat and recently, she has also noticed more feelings of affection and caring for her partner. The difference between her initial and recent feelings best demonstrates the difference between:

The phenomenon of how the mere presence of others can function to increase the likelihood of an individual's dominant response in a given situation is called _.

Let's say that you are a pretty good chess player. According to the theory of social facilitation, if an audience watches you play, you should

You see an individual on the bus punch someone else in the nose. You immediately conclude that the first person is very aggressive. You have just committed the

There is the notion that people may want to be positively judged by the company they keep and this is a possible reason why has a positive impact on attraction.

Studies with animals have found that if conditions are arranged such that an animal is continually defeated in fights with other animals of the same species, it will become more submissive. This effect is increased if the animal is when it suffers its first defeat.

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 placebo pill they have taken. Under these conditions, we would not expect the participants to change their attitudes to be more in line with their behaviour, a finding that is most consistent with theory.

The primacy effect refers to people's tendency to attach more importance to the initial information that they learn about someone.

The influence of the minority is more powerful if they maintain a highly consistent position over time.

When Sarah takes her new boyfriend home to meet her parents she is very nervous. Trying to explain that he is anxious about the meeting, she introduces Brendon, telling her parents that he is anxious, nervous, and very quiet. Later on, after having calmed down considerably, when her brother comes home she introduces Brendon as quiet because of his nervousness and anxiety about meeting her family. Based on the primacy effect, which of the following will be true about Brendon's impression on Sarah's parents and her brother?

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 girl's questions in as much detail as she does to other children. Mrs. Snyder is showing __ .

Paulo has always believed that tuition for higher education should be free. However, he has just changed his attitude to be more positive about paying for his education. In order to determine whether this change was the result of cognitive dissonance or self-perception, what would you look for?