Social Psychology

_____ set up an experiment, known as the Stanford Prison experiment, where people played the role of a prison guard. The goal was to observe if this authority position would cause them to act differently.

• Solomon Asch
• Philip Zimbardo
• Stanley Milgram
• Leon Festinger

When a person experiences guilt or discomfort because he or she realizes that he or she is not being truthful with their friends, then this person may be experiencing:

• normative social influence
• self serving bias
• cognitive dissonance
• the chameleon effect

Someone knocks on your door & asks you to sign a petition.  A week later they ask if they can put a sign in your lawn.  This exemplifies:

• Door in the face
• low balling
• foot in the door
• that's not all 

Someone asks u 2 give 5 hours of your time a week for the next year as a volunteer to a charity. After hearing this offer you think it's a huge request & instead of committing to all this volunteering time, u just donate a small amount of $

• This is foot in the door
• This is door in the face
• This is low balling
• This is that's not all

An experiment in which "participants" unanimously choose the wrong line. It is clear to you that they are wrong, but they have all given the same answer.

• Stanley Milgram Shock Experiment
• Leon Festinger Cognitive Dissonance Experiment
• Solomon Asch Line Experiment
• Philip Zimbardo Prison Experiment

When asked your favorite NFL team is you say the Packers b/c that's what most pple in WI say (but you don't actually think that)

• This shows private conformity
• This shows informational influence
• This shows public conformity
• This shows reciprocal determinism

This experimenter was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. 

• This was Leon Festinger
• This was Solomon Asch
• This was Philip Zimbardo
• This was Stanley Milgram

What is the difference between members of an in-group and an out-group?

• Members of the in-group rely on members of the out-group for leadership.
• Members of the in-group set the agenda that members of the out-group must follow.
• Members of the in-group identify with each other, but not with members of the out-group.
• Members of the in-group are constantly seeking to join the members of the out-group.

The Stanford Prison experiment demonstrated

• the negative consequences of groupthink.
• how far people are willing to go when instructed to do something by an authority figure.
• the power that situations can have in changing how people feel, think, and behave.
• the boost that social facilitation can provide to individual performance.

Repetition of the same arguments resulting in stronger attitudes in support of the majority view is an example of

• group polarization.
• role conflict.
• groupthink.
• social networking.