Attributions and Social Influence + review

You are the expert on psychometrics and assessment; however, three of the clinicians disagree on your choice of scales. You decide to change your opinion for the good of the group. This best illustrates:

• group polarization.

• the bystander effect.

• social facilitation.

• groupthink.

Which is the best example of FAE

• Observing someone trip on the sidewalk and assuming it is because they are clumsy

• Observing someone trip on the sidewalk and assuming it is because the sidewalk was uneven

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.

You have very strong opinions about the tuition increase. However, once you become the student representative for the College Board, you develop a more favorable attitude about the tuition increase. Which theory best explains this?

• two-factor theory

• social exchange theory

• cognitive dissonance theory

• equity theory

You are trying to convince your parents to send you to Europe. First, you ask them for a small favor (a bus ticket to a local city), hoping that later they will be more willing to send you on the longer trip. This technique is known as:

• the fundamental attribution error.

• the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.

• motivated forgetting.

• the cognitive dissonance theory.

When Bonnie is at her health club, she pedals an exercise bike much faster when other patrons are using nearby equipment. This best illustrates:

• the bystander effect.

• the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.

• social facilitation.

• group polarization.

A person in a group tends to exert MORE effort when he is individually accountable than when he is working with others toward a common goal with no individual accountability. This is known as:

• normative social influence.

• social facilitation.

• deindividuation.

• social loafing.

Sam is an animal trainer at an aquarium. He has taught the aquarium seals to repeat certain behaviors, such as slapping and barking, by tossing them a herring. This best illustrates:

• respondent behavior.

• operant conditioning.

• spontaneous recovery.

• observational learning.

Dr. Napleton prefers to give his students all essay and fill-in-the-blank questions in order to fully test their:

• recall.

• recognition.

• reconstruction.

• relearning.

Ricardo distributes his study time rather than cramming because he wants to retain the information for the long term. He is using the ___________ effect.

• chunking

• spacing

• semantic

• rehearsal