Myers AP Psychology Modules 74-80 Social

The "fundamental attribution error" phenomenon can best be seen in which of the following examples

• John blames his failure to get a job on his lack of appropriate skills and ill preparedness

• Phyllis doesn't get the lead in the school play and blames her drama teacher for this failure.

• Jane blames herself for forgetting that she has a term paper due in two days

• Bill doesn't hire John bc he believes that John's lateness is a result of John's laziness & lack of respect for the job. In reality, John was late bc he got a flat tire on the way to the interview

• Karen understands that her friend is late because she was caught in rush hour traffic.

In the Asch conformity experiments, which of these was NOT a consistent factor influencing the degree to which conformity to the group answer would be shown by the experimental subject?

• Unanimity of group opinion

• Size of the group

• The subject's perception of his/her social status

• Age of the subject

Students are randomly designated by experimenters as likely to experience significant jumps in academic test scores in the coming semester, & this designation is communicated to their teachers. when actual test scores are examined at the end of the semester, it is found that these randomly designated students did indeed tend to experience jumps in performance. This phenomenon is known as

• Hawthorne effect

• Ainsworth effect

• Cognitive dissonance

• self fulfilling prophecy

An old woman carrying a number of packages has tripped and fallen on a busy urban sidewalk and is having trouble getting back up. The fact that few people are likely to stop and offer her help is referred to by social psychologists as an example of

• altruistic orientation

• illusory correlation

• diffusion of responsibility (by stander effect)

• just world phenomenon

Which of the following would illustrate the "foot in the door" technique of facilitating compliance with a request?

• A mother wishing to get her twins to do their homework each day upon coming home from school and before other activities tells each of them separately that the other twin has agreed to do just that.

• A teacher wishing all her students to get their assignments in on time promises her class extra grading points for turning them in early.

• A teenager, wanting to extend his curfew from 10pm to midnight, first asks if it can be extended to 11pm for a specific "special occasion; he then plans to ask for the further extension at a later date after pointing out to his parents he was able to handle the 11pm curfew.

• A professional fundraiser, needing to get $10,000 from a foundation, first requests four times that amount, expecting to be turned down so that she can then ask for the lesser amount.

According to Attribution Theory, which of the following is an example of the self serving bias?

• A man does not have health insurance, but is not worried bc he is young and healthy.

• A woman knows a man who does not have insurance. The man gets into a car accident, & medical expenses cause him to lose his home. She wonders why he didn't have insurance.

• A toddler builds a tall tower with blocks and says "Me good!" when she completes the tower. However, she bumps it and it falls down. She frowns and says "Bad blocks!"

• A hurricane devastates an area of Mississippi & many residents seek grief counseling.

A group of 5 students & a group of 3 students all roughly the same size & strength, engage in a game of tug of war. The game is equal for a long while, neither side immediately gaining an advantage. This is most likely an example of

• social loafing

• dehumanization

• conformity

• social faciliatation

A child tries to get a raise on his weekly allowance. When he first approaches his parents, he asks for $100 per wk. His parents scoff & tell him this out of the question. Then, he asks for $50 per wk, & receives the same reply. Finally, he ask for $10 per wk & his parents agree. This is an example of

• foot in the door phenomenon

• central route of persuasion

• peripheral route of persuasion

• door in the face phenoomenon

Stanley Milgram's study involving the "teacher", learner, & experimenter tested which of the following principles?

• Conformitity

• Groupthink

• Role playing

• obedience

Albert Bandura's famous Bobo Doll experiment shows the power of

• Observation

• conformity

• hositle aggression

• instrumental aggression