Social Psychology Practice Quiz #1

Explaining behavior based on a personality

• Situational attribution
• Dispositional attribution
• Fundamental attribution
• Psychological attribution

Attitude change path in which interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts

• Perception route persuasion
• Peripheral route persuasion
• Center route persuasion
• Central route persuasion

Created the Stanford Prison Experiment

• Asch
• Zimbardo
• Milgram
• Harlow

Created an experiment studying conformity

• Erikson
• Harlow
• Asch
• Freud

When in a group, people are less likely to give aid

• Social loafing
• Groupthink
• Bystander effect
• Social facilitation

an unjustifiable attitude toward a group

• Stereotype
• Prejudice
• Discrimination
• Racism

When a like-minded group discusses something, their ideas are strengthened

• Attribution error
• Psychological fall
• Social facilitation
• Groupthink

Created experiment testing obedience

• Zimbardo
• Asch
• Milgram
• Locke

Which of these would NOT be an example of the free-rider effect in social loafing?

• Rosalie had done the minimum amount of work necessary in her psychology partner assessment and left Evan to do the rest as she knew he had more time than her tonight to complete it.

• Rosanna was assigned a psychology group project with the two highest achievers in the class. She thought it would be best to let them do the majority of the assessment, as that way they'd receive the highest grades.

• Hudson was working really hard on the Google Drive for his group maths project, when he notices that no one had even logged onto the page a week after he'd started it. He decided not to do any more work and make them do it instead.

• Riley was put with the same group members as his last English debate who did nothing in the last assessment. He noticed that they were trying to make up for their lack of effort and were dedicating their free period to writing the script. As he had a chemistry test last period, he figured they could take the reigns on the rest of the project.

Conformity is defined as?

• Tendency to adjust one's thoughts, feelings or behaviours in ways that are in agreement with those of a particular individual or group.

• Tendency to change a person's behaviours towards another to please the person in power.

• Tendency to form more extreme views towards those whose values are not in agreement with those of a particular individual or group.

• Tendency to adjust one's thoughts, feelings or behaviours in ways that contradict those of a particular individual or group.