Exam 10: Social Psychology

Muzafer Sherif's Robber's Cave experiment with boys at a summer camp showed that ____.

If you meet a person who is very attractive, you are likely to assume the person is ____.

The most common motive underlying hate crimes in the United States is ____ prejudice.

Zimbardo's Stanford prison study illustrates that ____.

In his experiments on conformity, Solomon Asch found that a maximum of____ of the participants conformed to an obviously incorrect group norm at least once in a series of trials.

Wearing the same style clothes that others are wearing would best be an example of ____.

Finn is getting ready to sign the papers to purchase a home and finds that the cost is slightly higher than he and the seller originally agreed upon. Finn voices his concern, and the seller says that he will include a freezer and refrigerator in the deal as a bonus to account for the difference. Although these items are probably worth less than the increased price, Finn feels awkward about refusing to pay the extra when the seller is throwing in these extras. Finn's compliance was induced by which technique?

A person who is trying to persuade another person will be most persuasive if the ____.

Any method that reduces or eliminates a person's state of cognitive dissonance returns that individual to a state of ____.

A stereotype is the ____ component of an attitude.

Blind dates are most likely to result in second dates when each person finds the other one ____.

What term refers to the idea that the more people are present when an accident occurs, the less likely people will be to help?

A two-month-old infant will look longer at a(n) ____ face than at a(n) _____ face.

We commit the fundamental attribution error when we ____.

The out-group homogeneity bias leads us to ____.

A trait attribution is to ____, as a situational attribution is to ____.

Kelly is from Hall County, Georgia. According to the in-group bias, Kelly will ____.

Which of the following do social psychologists say is TRUE about the duplex mind?

Zenda despairs about ever finding a significant other in her life. She confides her state of mind to you. From a scientific point of view, is there any advice you might give Zenda?

You see a man slip and fall in the parking lot and you decide that he must have tripped over a broken curb. In making this judgment, you have made a ____ attribution.