Psych I/II Modules 19-20 Test

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What is social psychology?

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The study of how people think about and influence each other

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Attribution theory explains that people judge behavior based on:

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A person’s personality or situation

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What is the fundamental attribution error?

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Thinking a person’s behavior is caused by their personality, not their situation

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Self-serving bias

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People take credit for success but blame others for failure

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The foot-in-the-door phenomenon happens when:

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Someone agrees to a small request and later agrees to a bigger one

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Cognitive dissonance happens when:

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Our actions and attitudes do not match

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Conformity

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Changing behavior to match a group

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Solomon Asch’s conformity experiment showed that people:

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Often agree with a group, even if they know the group is wrong

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Obedience is when people:

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Follow orders from authority figures

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In Milgram’s experiment, most people:

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Continued obeying even when they thought they were hurting someone