Social Psychology - 75-79

Frank in class is very shy. So you assume he is just a very shy person. You just committed which problem?

• Social psychology error

• Fundamental attribution error

• Foot-in-the-door phenomenon

• Cognitive Dissonance theory

If I ask you to stay after class, then to help me pick up a few papers, then to help me wash my car, then to help me build a fence I am using which technique to get you to do something.

• Social psychology error

• Fundamental attribution error

• Foot-in-the-door phenomenon

• Cognitive Dissonance theory

When you get mad when we don't see our significant other, but we understand that our significant other has a life of their own. We adjust our thoughts to accept that our significant other doesn't always have to hang out with us. This is describing which of the following?

• Social psychology error

• Fundamental attribution error

• Foot-in-the-door phenomenon

• Cognitive Dissonance theory

What is a reason why people would conform to a group? (more than one correct answer)

• Fear of being rejected or feel insecure

• Admire the group

• group has at least three people

• have made prior commitment before joining the group

This type of conformity is due to our desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval.

• Normative social influence

• Informational social influence

• Social Facilitation

• Deindivduation

Mobs may form and do crazy things due to this phenomenon

• Normative social influence

• Informational social influence

• Social Facilitation

• Deindivduation

If a group of high school seniors, who all dislike smoking, have a conversation and end up forming a club to seek out and kill smokers. They may have done which of the following?

• Social Leafing

• Social Facilitation

• Group Polarization

• Norm

Valley high school has the best students in the whole State of California! No one even compares!!!! This is an example of....

• social loafing

• ingroup bias

• Deindividuation

• other-race effect

Seeing me everyday has caused you to fall in love with me. This is due to which psychological theory?

• Equity

• self-disclosure

• companionate love

• mere exposure effect

You miss your exit while driving on the freeway, then you get stuck at a red light, last you are late for your appointment. You are now very angry!!!! This is describing which of the following?

• biochemical influences

• aggression

• frustration-aggression principle

• social scripts