Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

Jean is happy in a romantic relationship but feels that there could likely be another relationship that would make her even more content. If we only examine the comparison level of Jean's current relationship, we would predict that she would _________ the relationship.

Discuss the aspects of the communicator and message that are important factors in persuasion. Include a description of the difference between the central and peripheral routes to persuasion.

When explaining our own behaviour, when we make more personal attributions for successes and more situational attributions for failures, then ____________ has occurred.

According to the text, a(n) __________ is a positive or negative evaluative reaction toward a stimulus.

Which of the following brain structures or neurotransmitters has NOT been linked to aggression?

Which of the following best represents the peripheral route to persuasion? A person is persuaded because ________.

Participants in a study freely engage in a behaviour that is contrary to their attitudes. This behaviour causes an increase in physiological arousal, but the experimenter tells the participants that this arousal is the product of a placebo pill they have taken. Under these conditions, we would not expect the participants to change their attitudes to be more in line with their behaviour, a finding that is most consistent with ______________ theory.

How does Sternberg's model expand on the passionate-companionate love distinction?

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

How does the social structure model explain gender differences in mate preferences?

Some people are intense supporters of their favourite sports team. These people are not actually on the team and get intangible benefits when their team wins. Yet their self-esteem is strongly affected by the performance of the team. The theory that would best explain this effect is the ______________ theory.

What are the three components in Sternberg's triangular theory of love?

Professor Price is concerned about the drinking habits of his students. He knows that many of them drink to get drunk at least twice a week. He decides to give them a substance abuse lecture but is unsure whether or not he should mention safe ways to drink or merely focus on instilling fear in them about drinking at all. After reviewing the past research he decides that a more effective way to persuade the students is ______________.

The fact that the guards in the Stanford Prison study, who did not know that they were being observed, did not use their actual names, and wore reflective sunglasses that prevented direct eye contact, all suggest that _____________ may have played a key role in producing the results obtained in this experiment.

You overhear a group of people arguing about the arrest of several political activists. The first person you hear takes the position that the activists weren't doing anything wrong. A second person responds that, while admittedly not knowing the details of what happened, they feel certain 'the protesters wouldn't have been arrested if they weren't doing something wrong'. What concept is demonstrated by the statement made by the second person?

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

Under which of the following conditions would you expect the LEAST likelihood of social loafing? When ________.

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

You have just received your results on an exam. Although you thought that you were prepared, you didn't do very well. You can't recall exactly what the questions asked but clearly remember how much work you put in preparing for it. You decide that the reason you performed poorly must have been because the exam questions were unfair in some way. You wonder why your instructor is trying to make things difficult for your class and don't consider the possibility that there was nothing wrong with the exam and the course material was simply difficult. What concept would be most relevant here?

A psychologist is attempting to explain the source of various gender differences in mating behaviour. When explaining the fact that men tend to prefer younger women and women tend to prefer older men, he claims that this makes sense because older men have more earning potential, younger women are more economically dependent, and this age difference is consistent with most cultural expectations regarding relationships. This psychologist's views are most similar to those advanced by