Study for Social Psychology Quiz

What is the process of explaining one's own behavior and the behavior of others?

• Altruism
• Attribution
• Aggression
• Attitude

Which term describes the tendency to conform to the group opinion or behavior due to a desire to be accepted or liked by others?

• Normative social influence
• Social loafing
• Groupthink
• Informational social influence

Which technique involves asking for a large commitment and being refused, and then asking for a smaller commitment?

• Door in the face
• In-out
• Thats-not-all
• Foot in the door

What is the lessening of group members' sense of personal identity and personal responsibility?

• Cult
• Deindividuation
• Diffusion of individuality
• Ethnocentrism

What is the scientific study of how a person's thoughts, feelings, and behavior are influenced by the real, imagined, or implied presence of others?

• Social cognition
• Social psychology
• Social influence
• Social identification

What type of information processing involves attending to the content of the message itself?

• Source-centered processing
• Message-centered processing
• Central-route processing
• Peripheral-route processing

Which social psychologist at Yale University is famous for his experiments on obedience to authority?

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

What is the effect that the presence of other people has on the decision to help or not help, with help becoming less likely as the number of bystanders increases?

• Prosocial behavior
• Polarization
• Bystander effect
• Deindividuation

Which term deals with the ways people think about other people and includes attitudes, impressions, and attributions?

• Social facilitation
• Social cognition
• Social comparison
• Social categorization

What term refers to changing one's behavior as a result of other people directing or asking for the change?

• Social role
• Obedience
• Compliance
• Conformity