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

Jessica is a serious runner bought shoes b/c the commercial she saw uses laboratory findings from three independent studies that support the commercial's claims about the shoes.

• This is central route persuasion
• This is peripheral route persuasion
• This is low balling persuasion
• This is foot in the door persuasion

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 

Changing someone's attitudes and behavior about immigration is a demonstration of

• conformity
• obedience
• perusasion
• cognitive dissonance

When she stands in front of her classmates, Miriam cannot recite a poem she had memorized. Miriam is

• engaging in groupthink.
• displaying social inhibition.
• violating a norm.
• performing a task function.

Failure to take action because of the presence of others is an example of

• altruism.
• polarization.
• social loafing.
• the bystander effect.

You don’t like alcohol, but all your friends are drinking beer at a party so you do too. This is an example of

• groupthink.
• obedience.
• catharsis.
• conformity.

Which of the following occurs when you agree to the request of another person even though you don’t think the request is right?

• deindividuation
• compliance
• bystander effect
• social loafing

The bystander effect increases with

• obedience of the crowd.
• the social facilitation of the crowd.
• the size of the crowd.
• the altruism of the crowd.

Nehemiah believes that his good grades in his business classes are the result of his strong work ethic and high intelligence. He believes that his poor grades in psychology are the result of an unskilled instructor. Ryan's thinking is an example of _____.

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Saliency Bias

• Self-serving Bias