Unit 9 Social Psychology

Which of the following is the best definition of conformity?

• A change in behaviour or belief toward a group as a result of real or imagined group pressure
• A change in behaviour or belief as a result of direct pressure from a person in authority.
• Change in behaviour or belief as a result of indirect pressure from a person in authority.
• A change in behaviour or belief as a result of a direct request by someone with no authority.

The text defines social psychology as the scientific study of how people ________ one another.

• understand, feel about, and behave toward
• think about, influence, and relate to
• observe, understand, and communicate with
• understand, predict, and control

Group polarization is the tendency for

• a group to become divided on an issue.

• a group's opinion to strengthen after talking with like-minded people.

• a group to become extreme in their viewpoints when challenged.

• agreeing with a group to keep everyone happy

What is a difference between obedience and conformity?

• In conformity, there is a perceived difference in status between the one who conforms and the group.

• In obedience, there is a difference in status between the one who obeys and the one who makes the request.

• Conformity requires strict adherence to the rules, whereas obedience does not.

• Obedience is an indirect request, whereas conformity is a direct request.

• Conformity involves agreeing to change in response to a request, whereas obedience involves an indirect request for agreement.

After agreeing to Nat’s request to share her lecture notes from one class, Maria now agrees to Nat’s request to share her notes from three classes. This example illustrates the ________technique.

• door-in-the-face

• foot-in-the-mouth

• all-in

• lowball

• foot-in-the-door

This experimenter was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. 

• This was Leon Festinger
• This was Solomon Asch
• This was Philip Zimbardo
• This was Stanley Milgram

The process by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events

• Disposition

• Self Serving Bias

• Cognitive miser

• Attribution

Kara gets an F on her social psychology exam. Then she goes home and gets into an argument with her roommate, Lee. Lee assumes Kara is yelling at him because she is just a nasty person, and does not consider that she may just have had a bad day and is venting. Lee is demonstrating ________.

• groupthink

• the self-serving bias

• the actor-observer effect

• the fundamental attribution error

The ________ hypothesis is the ideology common in the United States that people get the outcomes they deserve.

• equal status

• come-uppance

• just-world

• equipoentiality

The behavior of soldiers who abused prisoners at the Abu Ghraib facility during the Iraq war was predicted by the Stanford Prison Experiment that was overseen by social psychologist ________.

• John Cacioppo

• Solomon Asch

• Stanley Milgram

• Philip Zimbardo