Unit 14 AP Psychology

The enhancement of a group's prevailing tendencies occurs when people within a group discuss an idea that most of them either favor or oppose. The tendency is called

• group polarization
• deindividuation
• just-world phenomenon
• discrimination

Which of the following statements about the foot-in the door phenomenon is false?

• People agree to small action are less likely to agree to a larger one later.
• The Chinese took advantage of this phenomenon in the thought control program they used on prisoners during the Korean War.
• To get people to agree to something big, start small and build.
• Succumb to temptation and you will find the next temptation harder to resist.

Associating ourselves with certain groups and contrasting ourselves with others is often referred to as establishing

• a stereotype
• social identity
• prejudice
• discrimination

When we believe our school is better than all the other schools in town we exhbit

• conformity
• groupthink
• ingroup bias
• the scapegoat theory

People frequently credit or blame either internal disposition or external situations for others behavior. This is called

• the fundamental attribution error
• social thinking
• the foot- in -the door phenomenon
• attribution

Rosa Parks' refusal to sit at the back of the bus is an example of

• social thinking
• minority influence
• conformity
• group polarization

When we become aware that our attitudes  and actions don't coincide, we experience tension, or

• cognitive dissonance
• the fundamental attribution error
• social influence
• social pressure

Performing a task better in the presence of others is called

• compliance
• social loafing
• social facilitation
• group polarization

When we overestimate the influence of personality, and underestimate the influence of situations, we are demostrating

• peripheral route persuasion
• cognitive dissonance theory
• central route persuasion
• the fundamental attribution error

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

• social psychology
• personality psychology
• clinical psychology
• experimental psychology