AP Psychology Exam

Loss of self restraint that occurs when group members feel anonymous and aroused, doing things they were never do.

• groupthink

• social loafing

• deindividuation

• group polarization

The tendency of a group's views to get stronger during group discussions, which may lead to more extreme decisions

• group think

• group polarization

• social loafing

• group norms

Tendency for some groups to make bad decisions. Occurs when group members suppress their reservations about the ideas supported by the group

• group norms

• obedience

• group think

• social loafing

Where individuals do not put in as much effort when acting as part of a group as they do when acting alone.

• social loafing

• conformity

• obedience

• group norms

Studies that focus on participants' willingness to do what another asks them to do. Stanley Milgram's experiement is an example

• social impairment

• conformity

• social facilitation

• obedience studies

The tendency of people to go along with the views or actions of others. Solomon Asch's study would be an example

• conformity

• social impairment

• social facilitation

• attraction research

People perform tasks better in front of an audience than they do when they are along.

• ethnocentrisim

• superordinate goal

• attraction

• social facilitation

Social psychologists study what factors increase the chance that people will like one another

• attraction research

• superordinate goal

• ethnocentrism

• discrimination

The phenomenon where people are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present.

• A) Bystander effect

• B) Social facilitation

• C) Groupthink

• D) Social loafing

The theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition.

• A) Attribution theory

• B) Cognitive dissonance

• C) Social identity theory

• D) Social exchange theory