Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

When forming impressions of people, when people tend to attach more importance to initial information that is learned about a person, this is termed the .

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 personal attribution that Kim is being overly critical?

Under which of the following conditions would we expect the presence of other people to have the strongest negative effect on performance?

A phone solicitor calls and asks if you would be interested in volunteering to work on a local political campaign. The job involves working 20 hours per week, you must work on Saturdays and Sundays for the next six months, and you receive no financial compensation. After politely refusing this request, the solicitor asks if you would be willing to work one evening a month on the campaign. This example best demonstrates the persuasion strategy known as:

You are conducting a conformity experiment patterned after the one utilized by Solomon Asch. Under which of the following conditions would you expect conformity to be the highest (i.e., the most people will conform)?

Repeated exposure to a stimulus tends to increase people's liking for it is a phenomenon called _.

Which of the following is least likely to be emphasized by a theorist taking a social learning view of aggressive behaviour?

An elderly woman accosts Susan, a news anchorwoman, on the street one day. It seems the older woman watched the television news last night during which Susan reported on a newly developed method of birth control. The woman is opposed to all methods of birth control for religious reasons and she assumed that Susan personally believes in birth control. The woman is committing the _.

The text makes an important distinction between prejudice, which refers to a negative attitude towards people based on their membership in a group, and which refers to how people are treated unfairly based on their group membership.

The central route to persuasion has been found to be the most effective for people who:

Research studies have determined that levels of conformity tend to be between individualistic cultures compared to collectivist cultures.

The norm of social responsibility, which asserts that people should help others and contribute to the welfare of society, was mentioned as one of the social learning/cultural factors that may or may not contribute to _.

Pat smokes cigarettes and strongly believes that doing so is bad for one's health. On a health questionnaire, Pat initially answered "No" to the question, "Do you engage in any health-harming behaviours?" Pat felt uncomfortable with that answer and changed it to "Yes." Of the alternatives below, Pat's answer-changing behaviour best reflects the notion of:

Carl Word and his colleagues found that White university students who were assumed to already hold prejudiced attitudes sat further away, conducted briefer interviews, and made more speech errors when interviewing black students. Which of the following constructs most readily explains the results from this study?

Cognitive dissonance is more likely to occur when a person feels that her actions are coerced and when the counterattitudinal behaviour her sense of self-worth.

When we are unaware of the role that our behaviour played in shaping another person's behaviour and we then interpret the other person's behaviour as evidence that our expectation of the other person was correct all along, a is said to have occurred.

One of the reasons that people are attracted to physically beautiful individuals is that:

Under which of the following conditions would you expect the least likelihood of social loafing?

The phenomenon in which people lose their sense of personal identity and self-awareness as a result of the anonymity provided by being in a large group of people is called:

Jon and Madison have been dating for several weeks and are both considering making their relationship exclusive and not seeing other people. According to the work on close relationships , their relationship will tend to grow closer and deeper if