Unit XIV Exam

Which branch of psychology is most directly concerned with the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another?

• Developmental Psychology

• Social Psychology

• Personality Psychology

• Experimental Psychology

• Clinical Psychology

Attribution theory was designed to account for:

• The process of revealing intimate aspects of ourselves to others.

• The impact of both heredity and environment on social behavior

• Social facilitation and social loafing

• The loss of self-awareness that occurs in group situations

• How people explain others' behavior

Lynn insists that her boyfriend's car accident resulted from his carelessness. Her explanation for the accident provides an example of:

• The bystander effect

• Deindividuation

• Ingroup bias

• the foot-in-the-door phenomenon

• A dispositional attribution

In order to analyze how people explain others' behavior, Fritz Heider developed:

• Cognitive dissonance theory

• Impression management theory

• Social exchange theory

• Attribution theory

• Self-disclosure theory

Solomon Asch asked people to identify which of the three comparison lines was identical to a standard line. His research was designed to study:

• The mere exposure effect

• The fundamental attribution error

• Social facilitation

• Deindividuation

• Conformity

Attitudes are ______ that guide behavior.

• Norms and roles

• Superordiante goals

• Belief-based feelings

• Dispositional attribution

• Mirror-image perceptions

The impact of our actions on our attitudes is best illustrated by the:

• Bystander effect

• Fundamental attribution error

• Foot-in-the-door phenomenon

• Mere exposure effect

• Frustration-aggression principle

Philip Zimbardo devised a simulated prison and randomly assigned college students to serve as prisoners or guards. This experiment best illustrated the impact of:

• Team membership on social loafing

• Self-disclosure on conciliation

• Frustration on aggression

• Role-playing on attitudes

• Groupthink on social conflict

In Milgram's obedience experiments, "teachers" exhibited a somewhat lower level of compliance with an experimenter's orders when:

• The experiment was not associated with a prestigious institution like Yale University.

• The "learner" complained of a slight heart condition just before the experiment began.

• The "learner screamed as the shocks became more punishing.

• The "learner" was in another room where his physical well-being couldn't be observed by the "teacher"

• The "teacher" was instructed to administer the learning test and someone else was asked to shock the "learner"

The gradually escalating levels of destructive obedience in the Milgram experiments best illustrate one of the potential dangers of:

• Deindividuation

• Social facilitation

• the bystander effect

• the fundamental attribution error

• the foot-in-the-door phenomenon