Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

Which of the following factors that increase the impact of minority opinions may be the most influential factor?

Having a victim who is located remotely (i.e., farther away) is one of the factors that decreases obedience.

Jorge is at a dating service looking to find a suitable mate. Research on physical attractiveness would suggest that he will choose to date

Your mother is confident that the reason you do well in school is because you are smart. She is making a(n) ________________ attribution for your performance.

According to social exchange theory, a key role in fostering close relationships is played by ______________.

The social exchange theory of relationships asserts that the amount of self-disclosure is one of the key factors that determine how close and deep a relationship becomes.

What evidence supports a genetic role in aggression?

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

Gerri's boyfriend wants her to type his term paper for him, so he asks her and she says "no". A little later, he asks her if she will type the references and she agrees. Gerri appears to be a potential victim of

All of the following were mentioned as ways that prosocial behaviour can be increased EXCEPT

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.

Solomon Asch demonstrated that a substantial percentage of participants conformed to obviously inaccurate line judgements made by several confederates. Follow-up interviews with the participants revealed that ______________________ responsible for these results.

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 _______.

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

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.

Anna and Lucy have been married for almost 30 years. Deep caring for each other and being affectionate have been very important to them. Anna and Lucy show ___________ love for each other.

You watch a commercial for a new iPhone in which the narrator explains the benefits of the new camera system over any other phone on the market. You are convinced and go out and buy the phone. You have been influenced by

A person with covert prejudicial feelings towards gays and lesbians would most likely have the slowest reaction times to which of the following word pairs presented using the implicit association test?

Some studies found that when people freely engage in counterattitudinal behaviour, they experience increased physiological arousal. Which of the following statements regarding this finding is most accurate?

In the study conducted by John Darley and Paget Gross (1983) that was discussed in the text, subjects saw a video of a young girl named Hannah and were asked to rate her academic potential. They found that the ability of a young girl was judged to be lower when ________.