Exam 10: Social Psychology

Mandy just found out she did not win this year's Management Award for Excellence. She immediately blames the poor conditions she has to work in and the fact that the rest of her team are incompetent. Mandy has probably just engaged in

In a dispositional attribution, behaviour is attributed to a personal trait, motive or attitude.

The Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Zimbardo demonstrated the powerful influence of

Ezio and his friends are constantly teased by a group of boys in his grade four class, who make comments about their clothes, their haircuts, and their behaviour in class. The teasing by these boys could easily cause Ezio and his friends to develop

How important is physical attractiveness in attraction?

What kinds of aversive events and unpleasant emotions have been related to aggression?

Of the following choices, the best definition of aggression is

Which of the following is an example of prejudice?

Which of the following is not true about roles?

You are helping high school sophomores who are candidates for student government. Give these students three "good" (though somewhat dubious ethically) principles for persuading others to vote for them and techniques you could use in conducting the campaign (e.g., the foot-in-the-door technique, the door-in-the-face technique, etc.).

What are several strategies for reducing prejudice and discrimination?

Research suggests that basically men prefer to mate with attractive females and females prefer to mate with attractive men.

Fernando really wanted to join a popular campus fraternity, but the initiation he underwent was especially gruelling and severe. According to cognitive dissonance theory, Fernando will probably

Horace just received the Gurlman Award for Creativity. It was a very tough competition, during which he thought he would not win. During his acceptance speech he stressed how his hard work, special skills, and intelligence made him the winner. He did not thank the design or manufacturing teams who worked on the project with him. What kind of attribution error did Horace probably make during his speech?

If our initial reaction to a person is highly negative, and frequent exposure makes us feel even more negatively toward the person, such feelings would be explained as

About what percentage of abused children become abusive parents?

Proximity is an important factor in attraction because it helps us overcome extremely negative first impressions.

What are the types of attributions that we make and how are they different?

The matching hypothesis suggests that we are more likely to end up with someone similar to ourselves in attractiveness and other assets.

What are the four elements in persuasion? Give an example and brief explanation of each.