Module 74: Attribution, Attitudes & Actions

Social Psychology and Sociology are the same thing?

• True

• False

What field of study focuses on how we think about, influence, and relate to one another?

• Social Psychology

• Sociology

• Personality Theory

• Cognitive Theory

What is the name of the theory that states we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition?

• Attribution Theory

• Scapegoat Theory

• Social Exchange Theory

• Normative Social Influence

What is the name of the theory that refers to the tendency for observers, when analyzing others' behavior, to underestimate the impact of the siutation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition?

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Scapegoat Theory

• Social Exchange Theory

• Normative Social Influence

What is the term for feelings that predispose us to resond in a particular way to objects, people, and events?

• Attidues

• Norms

• Culture

• Social Script

What is the term for being influenced by incidental cues such as credibility or attractiveness?

• Central Route Persuassion

• Peripheral Route Persuassion

• Foot-in-the-door-phenomenon

• Deindividuation

What is the term for being influenced by arguements, facts and deteails?

• Central Route Persuassion

• Peripheral Route Persuassion

• Foot-in-the-door-phenomenon

• Deindividuation

What is the term for the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small rqeuest to comply later with a larger request?

• Central Route Persuassion

• Peripheral Route Persuassion

• Foot-in-the-door-phenomenon

• Groupthink

What is the term for a set of expectations (norms) about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave?

• Role

• Ingroup

• Culture

• Social Script

What is the name of the theory that says we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent?

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Cognitive Dissonance Theory

• Social Exchange Theory

• Normative Social Influence