Exam 13: Behaviour in a Social Context

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

Which factor affects the negative cycle that often develops with regard to the anger in a relationship?

After Gerri reluctantly agreed to type her boyfriend's psychology term paper, he told her it might actually be 75 pages long. Gerri appears to be a potential victim of

You are watching golf and see Tiger Woods scowl. You would be making a fundamental attribution error if you assumed that he ________.

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.

What are some causes, symptoms, and consequences of groupthink?

The fundamental attribution error refers to how people tend to __________ the importance of personal factors and ___________ the importance of situational factors when explaining other people's behaviour.

To make it psychologically easier to aggress toward others, the aggressor may blame the victim for imagined wrongs and become convinced that the victim "deserves it." This type of cognition is known as a

Jan needed a new phone so she went to the phone store where they offered her the latest Samsung for 1500 dollars. She said no, so they offered her the phone for 800 dollars. She agreed to buy the phone. Jan has just experienced

If you wanted to increase obedience in a Milgram obedience study, which of the following would you do?

Research suggests that a tendency to attribute people's behaviour to personal factors is

Eight people are participating together in a lab study on group performance. Four people have been labeled as "Group A" and four have been labeled as "Group B". Each person has their group label attached to their shirt. They are asked to allocate some resources for another part of the experiment and to rate the participants on a number of scales. In this study we would expect

In a psychology experiment, the experimenter forces you to write a counterattitudinal essay in favour of raising tuition. After you do so, you asked what you really think about raising tuition. According to the theory of cognitive dissonance, you will

Research suggests that which of the following faces would be rated as most attractive?

You always considered yourself to be someone who hated exercising. However, when you stop to think about it, you realize you've actually been very active in recent years and do in fact work out pretty frequently. According to Daryl Bem's self-perception theory (1972), how would you be likely to respond to this observation?

The increased tendency to perform one's dominant response in the mere presence of others is called ________.

Repeated exposure to a stimulus tends to increase people's liking for it, according to a phenomenon called ________________________.

An employee works at an electronics store, and gets paid commission on the sales made. After selling a digital camera to a customer, the employee convinces the customer to add a memory card, a case, and some other essentials that go with the camera. The employee has used ___________.

Summarize Solomon Asch's study on conformity ("line judgment" study) and the results he obtained. List and define the two different types of social influence that may have produced these results and discuss three different factors that have been shown to influence conformity.

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