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