Exam 14: Social Behavior

Kenisha and Will have been dating for several months and have just had their first major fight. In Sternberg's triangular theory of love, ____________________ crucial if the relationship is to remain healthy and survive.

A company has developed a new mouthwash. The advertising department uses a commercial which features a man with severe bad breath keeping everyone at a ten-foot radius. The team has decided to use fear to __________ customers to try the new mouthwash.

When Majan comes to class wearing his bathrobe, his classmates stare and laugh because he

While Allyson is considering her options in a computer store, a sales representative finishes helping a male client and asks if he can help her. When she says her router is not working, he asks her very basic questions that he never bothered to ask the male customer. Before the conversation is over, it is clear that Allyson knows far more about routers than the sales representative. The representative's behaviour suggests that he has a generalized belief

When Nikolaos arrives a few minutes late to his psychology class, he finds that everyone has turned their desks to face the back of the room. Though the teacher is not in the room, he assumes that they know something he doesn't and turns his desk to face the back of the room too. Nikolaos is conforming, due to

When she first hears a particular song on the radio, Madelaine hates it. A lot of other people like it, though, and the song is played often, so whether she wants to or not, Madelaine hears it over and over. One day she realizes that she actually kind of likes the song. She tells a friend that the song has grown on her. Madelaine's feelings about the song changed, due to the

As a news anchor, Craig is used to people approaching him to argue about things he reported. Though he loves his job, he is constantly explaining that just because he reports on an issue doesn't mean he personally subscribes to it. In situations like this, people are

Medea and her friends go out for dinner at a sit-down restaurant. Their waiter is slow to greet them, confuses their drink orders, forgets to bring their appetizers, and is angry when they complain. Medea's friends begin to say that the waiter is a jerk and that they don't intend to tip him. They are

Though Aleser, Fiodor, and Alan are from different countries and backgrounds, they have no trouble agreeing on which women they find attractive. Fascinated that skin, eye, and hair colour have no effects on the men's experience of beauty, Fiodor wonders what the beautiful faces have in common. After some research, he learns that attractive faces tend to be more __________ than others.

Ron is employed as a physician, he displays his professional role in the hospital. Jen meets him when she goes in with a badly sprained ankle. She sees Ron as an efficient doctor. At home he behaves differently, especially when he cares the beef cattle on his hobby farm. Carol meets Ron as he is chasing a cow who escaped the pasture, he is yelling at the cow in very colourful language. She sees Ron as a redneck. Jen and Carol's expectations about how Ron will act differs, we call this interpretation of who Ron is

Janis goes to see a movie with a group of friends. As they leave the theatre, she is surprised to hear her friends exclaim that they loved the movie, because she thought the plot was poorly constructed and the acting terrible. She says nothing to the others, though, because she doesn't want to look stupid or offend other people in her group. Janis has succumbed to

Alvaro and Randall both feel strongly about global warming. Alvaro believes that it is an imminent danger; Randall believes it's an exaggerated hype. Both have been invited to present their views to an audience of students who are majoring in the biological sciences. Alvaro arrives in jeans and a flannel shirt. He knows he isn't particularly attractive and he is at least twice the age of most of the students, but he hopes they will be able to relate to his dress style. Randall is only a few years older than the students; he arrives in a jacket and tie and has clearly taken care with his appearance. Based on this information alone, who are the students more likely to view as credible?

Phaedra's friend has asked her to join him for a fundraiser dinner. When they reach their table, Phaedra notices more forks and spoons than she has ever seen at a single place setting. Rather than admit that she has no idea when to move from one piece of silverware to the next, she surreptitiously watches the other diners and sets aside each utensil when they do. Phaedra is relying on

During rush hour one afternoon, Tabitha sees a van on fire at the side of the road. Though normally she would drive on by assuming that someone else had already called for help, she learned in her psychology class that people often walk or drive past emergencies, due to __________. When she calls 911, she is nonetheless shocked to learn that nobody else has called in the fire.

Ken is asked to do something that others will find odd and track other people's reactions to him for psychology lab. A friend of Ken's orders food at the local Chinese food restaurant then leaves. Ken comes in and sits at the uncleared table (where his friend just sat). Ken starts eating off his friend's unfinished plate. People start staring at him and whispering among themselves. To complete his assignment Ken has

Galatea attends a high school that encourages and emphasizes creativity and the arts. In her junior year her mother's employer transfers her to another state, so Galatea and her father must also move. Because there isn't a special arts school in the new town, Galatea is enrolled in the public high school. On her first day she dresses as she always has, in an eclectic, funky style that is uniquely hers. The other students, who appear to Galatea to be dressed in boringly similar styles, stare and laugh at her appearance, and by the end of the day Galatea is uncomfortable. If she conforms to be accepted by her new schoolmates, Galatea will have succumbed to

A good way to help yourself quit smoking is to spend time educating other people about the dangers of smoking. Because one action (smoking) is incongruent with the other action (telling others about the dangers related to smoking), you will probably experience

Stephan decides to give speed dating a try. In the course of an hour, he will spend three minutes each talking with 20 different women. Without any additional information, which of the following qualities is most likely to make Stephan want to date one or more of the women he meets?

In a study of desensitization to violence in kids who play violent video games, the researchers randomly assigned over 250 male and female college students to play either a violent or a nonviolent video game for 20 minutes (Carnagey, Anderson, & Bushman, 2007). Then they measured their physiological responses to films of real-life violence, such as courtroom outbursts, police confrontations, shootings, and prison fights. The students who had played the violent video games showed

Thuy emigrated to Canada with her parents when she was a year old. Her parents still speak Vietnamese, practice Confucianism, and eat rice with most meals. They have decorated their home with woodcuts, lacquered art, and sculptures of pagodas. Thuy, however, speaks Vietnamese only with her parents, attends a Canadian church, eats a wide variety of foods, and has decorated her apartment with movie posters, Impressionist paintings, and pictures of her friends at amusement parks. Based on this information, we can say that Thuy