Exam 19: Applying social psychology to the environment

The subjective feeling that there are too many people in a given space is called ____.

In the study about how to encourage hotel guests to reuse their towels thereby promoting conservation, which type of message was the most effective?

After a badly rusted storage tank leaked into the river that supplies drinking water for a large region, the owners of the tank deliberately withheld information about the chemicals that had been stored in the tank.This is best described as the ____ trap.

A teenager riding in the backseat of a car watches someone throw a match into the veld.The fire will not be detected by local authorities for several hours, at which point acres and acres of land will have been burnt.The teenager, having not reported what he saw to anyone, apparently fell into the social trap known as ____.

One of the key barriers to solving environmental problems such as overpopulation and global warming is ____.

Of the following approaches to encouraging people to conserve water and energy, which has been MOST effective?

Suppose that you are a Grade 9 teacher, and you are trying to get your students to conserve more water and energy in their daily lives.Which of the following approaches is likely to be MOST successful?

Zinhle knows that the lobby of her office is extremely crowded between 11:45 and 13:15 when people are going to lunch or picking up lunch orders.Although Zinhle hates crowds, simply knowing when the lobby is crowded increases her sense of ____ control.

Research suggests that the major components of air pollution affect the health of ____ people in the USA.

A high-context culture is ____ than a low-context culture.

Personalisation - for example putting up pictures and cartoons in one's cubicle at work - is an example of ____.

Which of the following is an example of a secondary territory?

The most common occupational disease in the USA is ____.

The concepts of sensory overload and cognitive control are related to crowding in that sensory overload tends to ____ crowding and cognitive control tends to ____ crowding.

Worldwide, about _____ people die every day from hunger- or malnutrition-related diseases every day.

Worldwide, the population increases by about ____ million people annually.

Which symptom is NOT a typical indicator of post-traumatic stress disorder?

Suppose that you and your four roommates decide to get a dog.Unfortunately, you are all fairly selfish with your time; no one takes responsibility for the dog, and no one communicates about the dog's needs.As a result, the dog rarely gets fed, only goes on walks occasionally, and has never once made it to the vet.In short, he is neglected, and he ultimately ends up costing you thousands of rands in emergency room bills (which could have been avoided had you taken him to the vet early on).Social psychologists would say that the dog is a victim of ____.

Which of the following is the BEST example of the one-person trap?

Confronting people with the inconsistency between their attitudes and behaviours is a strategy for promoting behaviour change known as ____.