Social Psychology Revision

The tendency for the presence of others to enhance performance on simple tasks or inhibit performance on complex task

• Social Facilitation

• Social Influence

• Social Loafing

• Group Think

Sam is in a group but he believes the group is doing okay without his input so chooses not to contribute. This example of social loafing can best be described as?

• sucker effect

• Free-rider effect

Jack runs a race on his own and gets a time of 9.9 seconds. He then runs the race with an audience and get a time of 9 seconds flat. This improvement in performance can be explained by?

• social loafing

• social facilitation

• social influence

• social norms

Sally has been working hard stacking shelves on night fill, after two weeks she realizes she has stacked more shelves than anyone in her team. She feels taken advantage of so decides to slow down the pace. This effect of social loafing can be described as:

• The free rider effect

• The sucker effect

Sarah is suspicious that her boyfriend is keeping a secret from her, after a conversation with him which he explains that he is not keeping a secret she becomes even more convinced that he is lying to her. The tendency to hold a more extreme view after the conversation is an example of?

• Social Influence

• Instinct

• Group Polarisation

• social loafing

A tribal group discuss their plans to shelter in the winter and decide that they wont need to collect animal skins this year because all of their sons are "thick skinned" and will last the winter without them. Sadly many of the tribes people don't last the winter. This decision making is an example of?

• Group Think

• Group Polarization

• Obedience

• Conformity

Oliver asks his girlfriend Melody if she doesn't mind that Sarah, his ex girlfriend attends their movie date together. Melody was hoping for some "alone time" but agrees to have her along because she doesn't want to upset her boyfriend. This can be best described as?

• Conformity

• Obedience

• Social Loafing

• Poor choice of boyfriend

Which of the following factors influences conformity?

• the size of the group

• the gender of the group

• the temperature of the day

• the age of the group

Abiding by the schools dress code is an example of?

• Obedience

• Compliance

Your friend asks you to stop talking whilst she studies, you decide to work quietly in response to her request. This is an example of:

• Compliance

• Obedience