Psych Midterm Part 2

The tendency for members of a group to think alike and suppress dissent.

• Social Facilitation
• Social Loafing
• Group Think
• Bystander Effect

The finding that the more we experience we have to a stimulus, the more apt we are to like it.  i.e. finally liking a food after the 5th time trying it.

• Foot-in-the-door phenomenom
• Mere Exposure Effect
• Fundamental Attribution Error
• Random Sampling

The tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional influences on other people's behavior rather than external ones.

• Fundamental Attribution Error
• Illusory Correlation
• Deindividuation
• Bottom Up Processing

The tendency for people who agree to a small task to comply later to a larger request.

• Mere Exposure Effect
• Bystander Effect
• Fundamental Attribution error
• Foot-in-the-door Phenomenom

Which of the following shows the strongest correlation?

• 0.00
• +0.67
• +0.33
• -0.74

A psychiatrist is different from a psychologist because a psychiatrist

• has a doctorate
• has a medical degree
• has more patients
• examines animals instead of humans

According to Freud the ________ content is the remembered part of the dream and the _______ content is the underlying meaning of the dream.

• Manifest; Latent
• Latent; Manifest

Casinos know that gamblers are likely to keep playing slot machines in the hopes that the next time will be the time they win. This is because gambling is reinforced on which schedule?

• continuous

• fixed-ratio

• fixed-interval

• variable-interval

• variable-ratio

B.F. Skinner taught pigeons to play ping-pong, turn in their cage, use a pecking motion to drive a toy truck and peck to receive food. Which of the following best summarizes the principles developed and used by Skinner to train these pigeons?

• insight learning

• classical conditioning

• observational learning

• operant conditioning

• cognitive mapping

Claire, age 4, watches as her older brother throws the food on the floor that he does not want to eat. Later, she does the same thing when given something that she does not want to eat. The fact that she mimics behavior she has seen would be most supported by the research done by

• B.F. Skinner

• Jean Piaget

• Lawrence Kohlberg

• Albert Bandura

• Carl Rogers