Exam 19: Interpersonal, Group, and Intergroup Processes

During groupthink, members experience an illusion of invulnerability and overestimation of their competence in decision making.

What type of personality was proposed by Adorno and colleagues (1950) to explain the development and expression of prejudice?

What factors, together with 'high satisfaction', have an impact on relationship commitment according to Rusbult's (1983) investment model?

To better solve complex mathematical problems, people should perform in the presence of an audience.

When an initial tendency of individual group members is intensified following group discussion, _________ occurs.

What are the four possible reactions of people when they are unhappy in their relationship and consider the possibility of terminating it?

Discuss the limitations of the social penetration theory in describing how friendships develop over time.

What cultural norm associated to the concept of 'authority' is used by Milgram to explain why people could potentially be influenced by an authority figure to behave aggressively or immorally?

What are the two different types of racism?

One of the first things we notice when we meet someone for the first time is their physical appearance.

Couples who are evenly matched in their____________, are more likely to be attracted to one another.

Social priming is the opposite of social facilitation.

What is a 'social norm'?

There are _________ differences in whether a larger or smaller size is seen as preferable. Men in Ghana have been reported to prefer ________ women compared to men in the United States.

Adorno and colleagues (1950) created a(n) ________-scale which correlates with participants' levels of __________.

According to the _____________ hypothesis, being exposed to someone or something repeatedly increases attraction, even if no information is provided about the object or person.

According to the social comparison hypothesis, people prefer those who:

Which of the following body shapes is rated as more physically attractive by men?

Before Milgram's obedience study became famous, its procedures were described to psychiatrists, and they predicted that only ________ of participants would continue with the experiment all the way through 450 volts. Astonishingly, Milgram found that __________ of the participants continued with the experiment all the way through the 450 volts.

Groupthink is most common in cohesive groups