AP PSYCH U14 pt 1

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

The mental stress or discomfort caused ban individual experiencing inconsistency between thoughts and actions. 

• Cognitive Dissonance
• Groupthink
• Deindividuation
• Attitude

Kayle asks Hanna for a dollar to buy a water, then asks for three to also buy a snack

• Foot-in-the-door
• Door-in-the-face
• low-ball
• ingratiation

Which of the following concepts apply? My brother has the worst grade in the class because he's lazy and dumb.

• Self-serving bias
• Fundamental attribution error

Leah asks her teacher to delay the test a day; when the teacher refuses she asks for 10 minutes to study prior.

• Door-in-the-face
• Group polarization
• Social inhibition
• Social facilitation

Professor Stewart wrote a very positive letter of recommendation for a student despite his having doubts about her competence. Which theory best explains why he subsequently began to develop more favorable attitudes about the student’s abilities? 

• Cognitive dissonance theory
•  Social exchange theory
•  Two-factor theory
• Scapegoat theory

Early in the day, you see a fellow student in the cafeteria spill a whole tray of food as she trips over something on the floor. You think to yourself, “Wow, she sure is clumsy!” Later on in the day, you also trip in the cafeteria and spill your tray. You think to yourself, “Wow, this floor is uneven and dangerous, someone should fix it!” This illustrates the psychological concept called:

•  foot-in-the-door.
•   bystander apathy.
•  fundamental attribution error.
•   out-group bias.

Social Psychology is the branch of psychology that deals with social interactions, including their origins and their effects on the individual.

• True

• False

Social Psychology is the same thing as Sociology

• True

• False

The theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition is

• Foot-In-The-Door Phenomenon

• Attribution Theory

• Scapegoat Theory

• Social Trap