PBSI315 Exam 2 Review

When primed with an affiliation goal, people are ___ likely to mimic others

• more

• less

• never

• soemtimes

1. In the Milgram studies, participants continued to give “lethal” shocks to learners when lab researchers wore white lab coats and said phrases like, “it is important that you continue with the experiment.” This is an example of 

• normative social influence

• informational social influence

• automatic social influence

• the auto-kinetic phenomenon

1. In Mean Girls, all of the students in the high school want to be a part of the Plastics and take on the behaviors of the members within the group in order to be accepted by them. This is an example of 

• informational social influence

• normative social influence

• needing to be correct

• private acceptance

1. True or false: compliance tactics work best when people are able to think carefully.  

• true

• false

1. All of the following are true about ostracism except:

• it decreases self-esteem

• it decreases a sense of meaning in life

• it decreases sadness and anger

• it decreases perceptions of control

1. Zojonc’s Theory of Social Facilitation states that the presence of others increases arousal and, thus, increases dominant responses. So, people will likely perform ___ in easy tasks and ___ at more difficult tasks.

• better; better

• worse; better

• worse; worse

• better; worse

1. All of the following are symptoms of groupthink except:  

• unquestioned beliefs of morality

• stereotyping

• lack of pressure to conform

• illusions of invulnerability

1. Aaron says that he favors a picture of his face that’s been mirrored more than a picture of him faced correctly. What phenomenon best explains this? 

• physical attractiveness

• love

• self-esteem

• mere exposure effect

Cindy has been married to her husband, Linh, for almost 30 years now. They believe that they are both pretty similar and share many of the same characteristics since they’ve been together. What theory best supports their claims?

• two factor theory of emotion

• self-expansion theory

• parasocial relationships

• codependency theory

1. Emotions help to form, maintain, and ____ social relationships 

• manipulate

• encourage

• elongate

• negotiate