Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

When referring to judgments people make about the causes of their own and other people's behaviours, psychologists use the term:

Tamara is careless at the office one day and accidentally prescribes the wrong medicine for a twelve year-old patient. When her new associate catches the mistake, he assumes she does not know the difference in medications and that she must not be practicing very good medicine, and that she may not be very bright. This tendency to underestimate the role of situational factors when explaining Tamara's behaviour is the:

Remaining independent in the face of pressure, being consistent over time, and appearing to maintain an open mind were all factors that:

All of the following were mentioned as factors that increase the likelihood of a bystander helping EXCEPT:

Jean is happy in a romantic relationship but feels that there could likely be another relationship that would make her even more content. If we only examine the comparison level of Jean's current relationship, we would predict that she would the relationship.

Cognitive dissonance theory assumes that counterattitudinal behaviours change attitudes because they generate an uncomfortable state of tension, while another theory argues that the same changes are the product of logically inferring attitudes based on the observation of behaviour. This is _.

You watch a commercial for running shoes in which a very famous athlete claims that they use the shoes and they are the best. You decide to buy the shoes. You have been influenced by

A psychologist is discussing altruism and claims that the ability to put ourselves in the place of another and to share what that person is feeling is essential for altruism to occur. This explanation is most consistent with which of the following?

Which of the following gender differences in mate preference has been found?

Cross-cultural studies examining the consistency of the fundamental attribution error and the self-serving bias have shown that:

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

In a carefully controlled experiment, a doctor orders a nurse to administer 50 mg of a drug to a patient. The nurse knows that the recommended dose is 20 mg and the maximum allowed dose is 40 mg. In one condition, the doctor gives the nurse the order by telephone. According to research by Milgram, approximately what percentage of nurses receiving the order by phone will comply with the 50 mg order?

Which of the following characteristics would be the least likely to enhance the persuasiveness of a communicator?

The negative-state relief model is most relevant to which of the following?

Suppose that someone has just opened a new night club and you freely choose to carry a big, obnoxious, heavy sign advertising this business around campus for three hours on a very hot day. According to , you would probably rate this activity as the most enjoyable (or the least boring) if someone paid you to do it.

According to this theory, people are social because they have a basic need to relate their behaviours, feelings, and beliefs to other people in order to help them assess the level of their abilities and to determine whether their responses are normal. This is the _.

We have a natural tendency to categorize our environment. When we categorize people, we will tend to show

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 ideas sound and compelling and decides to invest. This example best demonstrates:

When presented with Milgram's experimental design, a group of experts and lay people estimated that approximately 1 percent of the participants would be completely obedient. The results from his study indicated that the percentage of his male and female participants that obeyed the experimenter until the conclusion of the experiment was ________.

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?