Exam 19: Application Module E: Applying Social Psychology to the Environ

Suppose that you are a ninth grade 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 the MOST successful?

A badly rusted storage tank leaks into the river that supplies drinking water for a large region. The owners of the tank deliberately withhold information from nearby residents about the chemicals that had been stored in the tank. This is an example of the ____ trap.

Confronting people with the inconsistency between their attitudes and behaviors is a strategy for promoting behavior change known as ____. ​

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

People are LESS likely to engage in the commons dilemma when ____.

Jada knows that the lobby of her office is extremely crowded between 11:45 a.m. and 1:15 p.m.when people are going to lunch or picking up lunch orders. Although Jada hates crowds, simply knowing when the lobby is crowded increases her sense of ____ control.

Which of the following best describes the term learned helplessness ?

Suppose that you are a ninth grade 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 the LEAST  successful?

Air pollution is the ____ leading cause of mortality worldwide. ​

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

Worldwide, about _____ people die of malnutrition and hunger-related diseases every day.

____ territories are open to anyone who is not specifically excluded.

Personalization-for instance, putting up pictures in one's cubicle at work-is an example of ____.

People in high-context cultures tend to be____ than people in low-context cultures.

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

Research suggests that adding additional entrances to a mental health facility increases patients' sense of freedom and control along with a heightened sense of place among the therapists. This is an example of ____.

Worldwide, the rate of population increase is close to ____ million people annually.

Toni is the only person in her neighborhood to have a swimming pool. If more and more houses in the neighborhood build swimming pools, there is likely to be a water shortage in the area. This is an example of ____.

The most common occupational disease in the United States is ____.

The main distinction between the terms crowding and density is that crowding refers to ____, while density refers to ____.