Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

Alan and Allison have been married ten years. According to research by Gottman and his colleagues, which of the following ways of dealing with their anger is likely to help keep their marriage happy?

Which of the following was mentioned as one of the ways that media violence can increase the likelihood of aggressive behaviour?

Jennifer has just signed up for Match in order to find a date. All things being equal, she is likely to choose

Which of the following conclusions regarding the results from obedience studies is most accurate?

Imagine that you have just arrived at university and are living in a dorm. You meet someone who is physically attractive and you'd like to get to know this person better. After a long dinner conversation, you learn that this person shares many of your attitudes and beliefs, but is only visiting and happens to live on the other side of the province. Based on the factors that have been shown to predict interpersonal attraction, your similarity to this person would be likely to increase your feelings of attraction, and the fact that they live far way would be likely to your feelings of attraction.

If you do poorly on this exam and conclude that it is really the professor's fault for making the exam too hard, you are basing your explanation on

To use the door-in-the-face technique for persuasion you must first

The principle of group polarization refers to how:

Wood and colleagues found that minority influence is strongest when it remains independent of majority pressure.

Which of the following brain regions is known to be involved in aggression?

Jan needed a new phone so she went to the phone store where they offered her the latest Samsung for 50 dollars. She agreed to buy the phone. Then they told her that she would have to sign a new contract for 80 dollars a month. Jan has just experienced

At times, people tend to underestimate the impact of situational factors and overestimate the impact of personal factors when explaining other people's behaviours. This is termed a _.

A meta-analysis of 60 different studies examining the possible causal mechanisms of deindividuation revealed that the primary factor that disinhibited behaviour was ________.

People are most likely to aggress against another person when they perceive that the other person's behaviour was

Elliot is led to a room with nine other people. All ten people are then shown a picture of two lines. The line on the left is clearly shorter than the line on the right. But, when the experimenter asks everyone which line is shorter, all of the other people say that the line on the right is shorter. When it is Elliot's turn to respond we would expect him to say that:

One of the factors that has a positive impact on attraction is the fact that people often assume that other positive personality characteristics such as intelligence, morality, and sociability are associated with _.

Before Dr. Smith's receptionist led a new patient into his dental office she told him that the little girl was not very bright. Armed with this information, Dr. Smith did not pay much attention when the little girl asked him questions about the examination after he had finished. He didn't really believe she would understand his explanations. Dr. Smith had of less intelligent people.

Suppose that someone has just opened a new restaurant near your school and you have been convinced to walk around for three hours on a very hot day carrying a big, heavy sign advertising this restaurant. You would probably rate this activity as most enjoyable if someone paid you $1 to do it according to _.

One of the following findings is FALSE regarding the response of White males presented with light-toned and dark-toned versions of Black faces and dark-toned and light-toned White faces. Their amygdala became:

Cognitive dissonance theory best explains the relationship between attitudes and behaviour when counterattitudinal behaviours do not threaten one's self-worth or when the attitudes that are initially held are weak or unclear.