Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

Which factor decreases the likelihood that Joyce will conform to the opinion of her group?

Which of the following factors has been shown to have the least impact on obedience rates?

As you drive through an intersection, you notice that a car has been in an accident. You do not stop to help because there are a number of people at the scene, even though no one seems to be doing anything. Why didn't you help?

The tendency to prefer people in a group to which we belong and to attribute more positive qualities to people in this group is called:

A couple has been together for several years and they are now deciding whether to end their relationship. Based on Thibaut and Kelley's social exchange theory, one of the primary factors that will affect their decision is:

A psychologist who is discussing the causes of racism and prejudice argues that these negative beliefs are caused primarily by people's needs to enhance their self-esteem and to feel good about themselves. This psychologist's explanation is most consistent with:

The tendency to prefer people in a group to which we already belong and to attribute more positive qualities to these individuals is called in-group favouritism.

Anne has been practicing her new ballet moves all week. She wants to earn a role in the local ballet company's latest show. Although she has learned the moves very well, she is still making mistakes the night before the audition. According to the social facilitation phenomenon, at the audition, in front of an audience, Anne will:

In a groupthink situation, people tend to go along with the group's thinking in order to maintain a unanimous position. This is quite similar to the concept of

In the case of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the NASA official who gave the final go-ahead for the mission was never informed about the many engineers who strongly opposed the launch. The fact that this information never reached the official best illustrates which of the following groupthink processes?

Liam doesn't like the new iPhone. In order for us to make a situational attribution and assume that it really is something about the phone (and not just Liam's opinion), which of the following has to be true?

Gerri's boyfriend wants her to type his term paper for him, so he first asks her to type the cover page. After she does this, he then asks her to type the whole paper. Gerri appears to be a potential victim of

Asch found that all of the following factors served to decrease conformity in his experiments except:

The phenomenon of groupthink is likely to occur under all of the following circumstances EXCEPT:

Shawna is on a diet and doing very well, losing about ten pounds in the weeks before Thanksgiving. She believes that six small meals is a healthy way to eat. When she sits down at her grandmother's Thanksgiving dinner, she cannot help herself and has second helpings of just about everything, including the pumpkin pie. She realizes that no one forced her to eat as much as she did. She therefore is likely to experience:

The belief that prejudice is created by people's need to feel good about themselves is proposed by _.

When trying to persuade someone, which of the following strategies would be the most effective?

To make it psychologically easier to aggress toward others, the aggressor may blame the victim for imagined wrongs and become convinced that the victim "deserves it." This type of cognition is known as a:

Social exchange theory offered an explanation for the possible factors that:

A sexist man assumes that an assertive and strong woman whom he has just met must be a "feminist" and thus he is able to maintain his more general belief that women are passive and dependent. This example best demonstrates: