Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

In a study conducted by Darley and Gross, participants watched a video of a nine-year-old girl, Hannah, answering questions and were then asked to judge her academic potential. Participants who were told she was ___________ rated her lower in ability.

Sets of norms that specify how people in a particular social position are expected to behave are __________________.

Affection, deep caring, and a commitment to being available for a partner, contribute significantly to satisfaction in long-term relationships. This is ____________ love.

If you have five people competing as one team in a tug-of-war contest, their combined effort level is likely to be ________.

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

What factors serve to increase prosocial behaviour?

Under what conditions is the minority most likely to influence the majority?

What types of information lead us to form a situational rather than a personal attribution?

Being in a good mood has been found to be one of the factors that __________ the helping behaviour.

Jill blames a man for imagined wrongs that he has committed against her and views him in such a way that his human characteristics are de-emphasized. Both of these factors would best be considered as different types of self-justifications and make it more likely that Jill will ______________.

An experiment by Sherif (1935) demonstrated that the autokinetic effect occurs when ________.

Describe Milgram's obedience experiment. Do you believe the results would be similar today? Why or why not?

According to Freud, performing an act of aggression discharges aggressive energy and temporarily reduces our tendency to aggress. This is the principle of ________________.

The best-known approach to reducing prejudice is based on a principle called ________.

According to learning principles, how might violent video games teach people to behave aggressively? Does evidence support this view?

How do social norms, self-reinforcers, and empathy influence helping behaviour?

All of the following were discussed as environmental factors that increase the likelihood of aggression 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

Having an authority figure who is physically close and who is perceived as legitimate are factors that are both most strongly associated with ________.

Social structure theory is to sexual strategies theory as ________.