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Sanna insists that her girlfriend's car accident resulted from her carelessness. Her explanation of the accident provides an example of

• a dispositional attribution

• a situational attribution

• cognitive consistency

• door-in-the-face effect

On the first day of class, Kory's professor gives brief and abrupt answers to student questions. Kory thinks her new professor is rude. This __________ would likely influence her to act negatively toward the professor.

• role playing

• foot-in-the-door effect

• discrimination

• situational attribution

Before Kitty left for college, she told her friend Illyana that she thought sororities were filled with snobs and she would never join one. During Kitty's 1st week on campus, a sorority member invited her to a social function and encouraged her to join. After Kitty attended the party, she said to Illyana, "Sororities do a lot of good. They are really service organizations for the community". Kitty's change in attitude illustrates...

• cognitive dissonance theory

• attribution theory

• role playing

• social loafing

Blindfolded university students wre observed to pull harder on a rope when they thought they were pulling alone than when they thought 3 others were pulling with them. This best illustrates...

• social loafing

• the chameleon effect

• group polarization

• social facilitation

65 year old Stan is taking courses at the university with the intention of completing a bachelor's degree. Some members of his family think that he is not likely to succeed because he is too old to learn new information. The family's thinking about Stan illustrates...

• hindsight bias

• conformity

• social scripts

• stereotyping

Peter is working on a class art project and needs a high grade because the class is required for his major. The others in his group are aware of that, and also know that Peter is a great students. Peter finds that the others are depending on him to do the vast majority of the work. The others in Peter's group are guilty of...

• social facilitation

• social loafing

• cognitive dissonance theory

• bystander effect

Prejudice is a(n) __________________ and Discrimination is a(n) ____________________

• action ; attitude

• decision ; bias

• belief ; action

• implicit ; obvious

People tend to develop stereotypes because

• stereotypes help organize information about the social world.

• Stereotypes make it easier to interpret the behavior of others

• We assume that people who are different from us must be similar to one another.

• All of these are correct.

Psychologist Soloman Asch’s Line study showed that people

• do things faster when they are in a group.

• conform to those around them so as not to appear different.

• obey the commands of authority figures.

• tend not to help out when others are around.

Mrs. Keaton develops a distinct southern accent and a slower speech pattern when she is talking to her family that lives in the country. This is an example of

• Social facilitation

• Social Loafing

• the Chameleon effect

• altruism.