Exam 17: Interpersonal Processes

Culture also influences the efficacy of leadership styles. In the United States, managers tend to be more concerned with _____, whereas in China managers tend to be more concerned with _____.

According to your textbook, adopting a laissez-faire leadership style will likely lead to:

According to the textbook and with regard to dispositional variables, which one of the following is the reason for why people hid Jews from the Nazis?

According to your textbook, gratitude is linked with all of the following EXCEPT:

Which type of variable refers to the circumstances in which people find themselves?

There are different leaderships styles that a person might adopt when working with a group of people. What is the difference between a task-oriented leader and a relationship-oriented leader? When would a task-oriented leader be better, and when would a relationship-oriented leader be better?

According to your textbook, a normally non-aggressive animal will immediately attack after stimulation of the:

James Gilligan interviewed men who had been incarcerated for violent crimes. Based on those interviews, he concluded that the source of violence is (the):

The idea that aggression is "like a pilot light that is always on but can burst into flames if conditions threaten reproductive success" applies to which perspective?

There are two types of leaders. _____ leaders refers to the group members who take responsibility for seeing that the group completes its task whereas _____ keep the group working as a unit with as little negativity as possible.

I ask a colleague if she would be kind enough to read over a paper I just finished writing. When I tell her it is about 56 pages long, she regretfully declines due to too much of her own work to do. When I ask her to read the 10 page long introduction, she agrees. This is an example of:

Numerous species will utter an alarm call when they detect a potential predator. If you think about it, the smart and safe thing would be to run for cover when you see a predator. Uttering the alarm call will surely draw attention to you. Based on the authors' discussion about mother birds feigning a broken wing and chimps adopting orphaned chimps, why would an individual utter an alarm call?

Comparisons between humans and non-humans in the area of aggression have revealed which one of the following to be true?

According to the psychodynamic approach, teasing a buddy, enjoyment of football, and violent movies all reflect:

In the Asch studies, subjects who were asked to identify a matching line and were faced with a group of confederates who unanimously chose the wrong line also chose the wrong line approximately _____ of the time as compared to 1% of the time without pressure.

The tendency of people to seek out and spend time with others is referred to as:

It is believed that men in the southern United States resort to violence more often than men in the northern United States because the south is a culture of:

I hold the door for other people, both males and females, because it makes me feel good. I teach in a very relaxed manner because I like it when students speak freely. I call my mom every weekend because talking to her relaxes me. All of these support the notion of:

In an experiment in which a doctor instructed 22 nurses to administer an overly large a dose of a drug:

The purpose of developing the General Aggression Model was to: