Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

Research indicates that in an emergency, a female bystander is more likely to help a man than a woman.

The implicit association test is used specifically to assess:

Which of the following were both mentioned as possible causes for group polarization?

Self-perception theory asserts that counterattitudinal behaviour often serves to change attitudes because of the uncomfortable state of emotional tension evoked by these behaviours.

All of the following were mentioned as ways that people can maintain prejudices when confronted with contradictory information EXCEPT:

In subsequent experiments examining the factors that influence conformity, Asch determined that:

All of the following were discussed as environmental factors that increase the likelihood of aggression EXCEPT:

The Asch conformity results involving the judgement of line lengths are all the more startling because the study did not employ any

All of the following marriage suggestions are supported by the results from marital research EXCEPT:

Jared is very upset at the low score he received at his piano competition. Jared typically receives low scores but this time he thought he would do better. He begins to believe that the three judges were all against him from the start. In this case, Jared would be attributing his low score to the:

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:

Social identity theory asserts that prejudice arises in large part from people's need to enhance their self-esteem.

The out-group homogeneity bias refers to the tendency:

The frustration-aggression hypothesis asserted that frustration inevitably leads to aggression and all aggression is the result of frustration. Subsequent research has revealed that:

If a task is complex but still well learned, the mere presence of others typically serves to enhance performance.

A positive or negative evaluative reaction towards a stimulus is a(n) _.

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 girls questions in as much detail as she does to other children. In fact, the little girl is very bright but in responding to Mrs. Snyder in the way Mrs. Snyder expects, the little girl's grades begin to slip downward. The little girl appears to have entered into a _.

Roger is on a date with Heidi at an amusement park. They go on a rather scary roller coaster ride and after the ride, Roger's heart is pounding hard and he is emotionally aroused. Mistakenly, he starts to assume that these feelings are actually being produced by his reaction to Heidi and as a result, he starts to fall more in deeply in love with her. This example best demonstrates the:

Malvine has always campaigned for clean air and water, often doorbelling for candidates running for political office on a clean environment platform. She is dismayed to learn that her favourite restaurant is polluting the fresh water stream that runs behind it but she continues to eat lunch there twice a week. She later cancels her membership in an environmental group, saying that the group is too radical. Which of the following psychological processes is evident here?

In his study of murders, Raine found that when murderers who had committed their crimes as a planned predatory act were compared to impulsive murderers, the impulsive murderers had _.