Unit 2 Social Psych

Lance is a cross country runner. He tends to run faster when he is running with someone else than when he is running alone. This is an example of...

• Social Facilitation

• Bystander Effect

• Foot-in-the-door Phenomenon

• Social Loafing

• Social Reciprocity

When a salesperson visits your home and asks you to try a free sample of a cleaning fluid, you agree. When he returns the following week and asks you to purchase an assortment of expensive cleaning products, you make the purchase. The salesperson appears to have made effective use of

• Conformity

• Foot-in-the-door Phenomenon

• Social Reciprocity Norm

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Group Polarization

After an exciting football game in which the home team loses by one point, angry fans throw their trash on the field and begin to destroy the bleachers. This behavior best illustrates the concept of:

• Group Polarization

• Social Loafing

• Deindividuation

• Social Facilitation

• Food in the Door

Most Game of Thrones fans believe that members of their own fandom are much better than the fandom for Stranger Things and thinks anyone who likes Stranger Things is weird. This best illustrates the concept of:

• Just-world Phenomenon

• Ingroup Bias

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Scapegoating

• Group Polarization

Calvin witnesses a someone getting a flat tire on his way to school. He doesn't stop and help because he thinks there are more people in the area who can help. This is an example of...

• Social Loafing

• Ingroup Bias

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Bystander Effect

• Cognitive Dissonance

When the jury deliberated, most thought that the defendant in the case was probably innocent, but some weren't certain. After discussing the case for four hours, all twelve jurors firmly convinced that the defendant did not commit the crime. What explains the strengthening of opinions?

• Just World Phenomenon

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Foot-in-the-door Phenomenon

• Group Polarization

• Social Reciprocity

Tyler insists that his girlfriend's car accident was a result of her bad driving not the snowy conditions. This illustrates the concept of

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Bystander Effect

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Social Facilitation

• Social Loafing

Kari had to go to the bathroom, but the only public restroom was in McDonald's; therefore, she felt obligated to purchase a drink after using the McDonald's bathrooms. This is an example of

• Social Loafing

• Social Reciprocity Norm

• Group Polarization

• Just-world Phenomenon

• Deindividuation

What was the experiment on conformity where subjects knowingly gave incorrect answers to conform to the group norm?

• Stanford Prison Experiment

• Asch Experiment

• Milgram Experiment

• Freud Experiment

Zimbardo's Stanford Prison experiment demonstrated

• the negative consequences of group polarization and changing opinions to fit the majority.

• 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.