Do Now AP Psychology Social Psychology

A basic assumption underlying the definition of groupthink is that

• more reasonable decisions are made by groups than by individuals

• group members desire peace and harmony within the group

• group members are primarily interested in their own advancement within the group

• decisions made by groups of people tend to be more extreme than those made by individuals

• leadership positions within a group should be rotated among all members

The tendency to believe that another person’s behavior is caused by dispositional factors rather than by environmental factors is called

• situational attribution

• impression management

• the fundamental attribution error

• an implicit personality theory

• identification

Which of the following behaviors is most closely associated with the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?

• Beth continues to participate in class because she is positively reinforced.

• Adam is sleeping while the rest of his classmates are working on their group project.

• Sutan asks his father for $5, and when he agrees, Sutan asks him for $15 more.

• James feels pressure to go to the movies with his friends even though he prefers to go bowling.

• Diana feels guilty because she did not help her family clear the table after dinner.

Which of the following scenarios best represents conformity?

• Chris’s teacher tells the students not to use their cell phones during class, so Chris does not use his cell phone during class.

• Beth becomes a vegetarian when she starts college because all of her new friends are vegetarian.

• Even though most members of a group do not find lions interesting, they decide to do a project on lions because they want to keep harmony.

• Tuti enters a chicken-wing eating contest, and with onlookers cheering her on, eats more chicken at once than she ever has.

• Marwa's coworker covers her shift for her, so the following weekend Marwa helps out her coworker.

Doug is part of a large creative-design team at an advertising firm. The team comes up with many slogans for products. Some are successful; some are failures. Whenever the team comes up with a winner, Doug takes full responsibility and talks about how much of a role he played in the team’s success. When slogans are not effective, he denies having a big role in the project. Doug is most clearly demonstrating

• low self-esteem

• a self-serving bias

• an actor-observer bias

• a misattribution error

• sublimation