Exam 8: Social Behavior

The approach that says an individual's traits and personal characteristics combine with settings and circumstances to produce behavior is called ________________.

Milgram measured levels of obedience among American subjects because he wanted to test the "Germans are different" hypothesis.

Stanley Milgram's urban overload hypothesis states that _________________________.

Imagine you are walking alone in a large city, injure yourself, and need help. How could you use your knowledge of Latané and Darley's five-step model of helping behavior to increase the likelihood of receiving help? Be specific.

Many of Milgram's subjects showed clear signs of distress and anxiety, yet only a few of them later regretted participating in the study. Was Milgram's study ethical or unethical? Explain your reasoning. Be sure to address the issue of informed consent in your answer.

How do researchers explain the unusually high suicide rate in honor states in the U.S.?

According to one study, the higher rates of suicide in honor states cannot be attributed to higher rates of depression, but they can be attributed to ________________________.

Which of these measurement technologies would be most useful for describing and comparing marriage ceremonies in different cultures?

According to Cohen and Nisbett's analysis of honor cultures, people who grow up in societies that have a tradition of herding are especially courteous and polite to strangers.

A meta-analysis by Nancy Steblay found that people living in small towns were generally more helpful than people living in medium-sized cities and large cities.

According to researchers, which of these is NOT associated with honor cultures?

What is the Riverside Situational Q-Sort (RSQ)? What is its purpose? How does it operate?

In the United States, people who live in so-called honor states commit suicide at an unusually low rate because they do not want to bring shame upon their family.

In their study of low-cost helping in 23 nations, Robert Levine and his colleagues discovered that people living in simpatía cultures were especially helpful.

How did Levine and his colleagues investigate low-cost helping in 23 different nations? What were the major findings of the study?

In Levine's study of large cities in 23 nations, what did the research assistant do to give people an opportunity to either help or not help?

Which of these is NOT a finding from Bond and Smith's meta-analysis of 133 Asch-style conformity studies in 17 countries?

A ________________________ tests the same underlying hypothesis but in a different setting using a different method.

Use Markus and Kitayama's concepts of the independent self and interdependent self to explain why Westerners, as a group, are less likely to conform and East Asians, as a group, are more likely to conform.

Using a modified version of Asch's procedure, Canadian researcher John Berry found higher rates of conformity ___________________________________.