Do Now AP Psychology Social Psychology

An example of proximity affecting interpersonal attraction is when

• Candace is fond of Jerome because she lives next door to him.

• Maxime is best friends with Tran because they both enjoy biology.

• Abdul likes Trisha because she has a low waist-to-hip ratio.

• MaryAnn enjoys being with Miko because Miko shared personal information with her.

• Eric is friends with Harriet because he is flooded with oxytocin when around her.

People often have expectations about another person that influence how they act toward that person. Such expectations in turn cause that person to behave consistently with the original expectations. The phenomenon is known as

• a self-fulfilling prophecy

• mental set

• the mere-exposure effect

• hindsight bias

• social facilitation

The failure of bystanders to give victims of automobile accidents needed assistance is sometimes explained as an instance of

• group polarization

• deindividuation

• situational attribution

• diffusion of responsibility

• mere exposure effect

Leila saw a man treat a passerby rudely. Shortly after that, she saw him slip and fall to the ground. She immediately thought, “What a clumsy man,” without acknowledging that he had walked onto a patch of ice. Leila is demonstrating the fundamental attribution error because

• the thought was immediate

• the person was actually clumsy

• she projected her own clumsiness onto the man

• she blamed his fall on his being clumsy

• she thought he got what he deserved

Which of the following examples describes groupthink?

• Company policy mandates that all employees wear khaki pants, so the employees all wear khaki pants.

• The employees of a company did not want to disagree with one another by sharing their true opinions on paint colors, so the office was painted an ugly beige color.

• A professor drops a stack of papers in a crowded hallway, and no one offers assistance.

• Josiah runs slower for a relay race than he does when he is running individually.

• Gabby got her fastest time ever swimming 200 meters at a recent swim meet that was packed with fans.