Unit 9 Social Psychology REVIEW 2021

The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.

• bystander effect

• fundamental attribution error

• social psychology

• attitudes

You are at school and someone you know comes by, you say hello, and this person just gives you a quick, unfriendly "hello" and then walks away. You react to this situation by saying "What a Jerk!".

You just committed ____.

• attitudes

• in-group bias

• foot-in-the-door phenomenon

• fundamental attribution error

Affective feelings of liking or disliking toward an object (which can be basically anything) that has an influence on behavior.

• roles

• norms

• attitudes

• attributions

The tendency for people to comply with some large request after first agreeing to a small request.

• in-group bias

• mere exposure effect

• foot-in-the-door phenomenon

• fundamental attribution error

Which of the following is NOT true regarding Philip Zimbardo's prison study?

• He wanted to further investigate the impact of situational variables on human behavior.

• The study demonstrated the showed the situation people find themselves in has no impact on human behavior

• There were 24 undergraduate students played the roles of both prisoners and guards

• The participants became so involved with their assigned roles that the study was ended early

The state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.

• fundamental attribution error

• cognitive dissonance

• bystander effect

• deindividuation

Which of the following is NOT true regarding Solomon Asch's study?

• Conformity isn't stronger in real-life situations where stimuli are more ambiguous or more difficult to judge.

• A participant was seated in a room with the other participants, shown a line segment and then asked to choose the matching line from a group of three segments of different lengths.

• The results suggest that conformity can be influenced both by a need to fit in and a belief that other people are smarter or better informed.

• Conformity can be influenced both by a need to fit in and a belief that other people are smarter or better informed.

Influence resulting in the desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval.

• conformity

• fundamental attribution error

• social facilitation

• normative social influence

An individual accept that the information provided is trustworthy and thus change their thinking, belief or behavior accordingly.

• Normative social influence

• Informational social influence

• social facilitation

• deindividuation

Which is a type of social influence that results in a change of behavior or belief in order to fit in with a group?

• social facilitation

• informational social influence

• conformity

• reciprocity norm