Social Psychology Practice

When a like-minded group discusses something, their ideas are strengthened

• Attribution error

• Psychological fall

• Social facilitation

• Groupthink

Created experiment testing obedience

• Zimbardo

• Asch

• Milgram

• Locke

Conformity is defined as?

• Tendency to adjust one's thoughts, feelings or behaviours in ways that are in agreement with those of a particular individual or group.

• Tendency to change a person's behaviours towards another to please the person in power.

• Tendency to form more extreme views towards those whose values are not in agreement with those of a particular individual or group.

• Tendency to adjust one's thoughts, feelings or behaviours in ways that contradict those of a particular individual or group.

Milgram's study discovered that...

• People will obey authority even in extreme situations, even when this means harming others.

• People are afraid of people older than them.

• People can take their roles too seriously and subconsciously enjoy tormenting others.

• People will obey authority if their life is in danger.

An expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them is considered a

• Reciprocity Norm

• Self-Serving Bias

• Diffusion of Responsibility

• Mirror Image Perception

Leo wants to go out on a date with his new girlfriend, however he had made plans with his best mate for his birthday but knows the girlfriend will get mad at not speak to him if he doesn't take her out. Leo is experiencing what psychological concept?

• Attribution theory

• Cognitive dissonance

• Social loafing

• Cognitive deception

Social Psychology is the branch of psychology that deals with social interactions, including their origins and their effects on the individual.

• True

• False

What is the term for the phenomenon where individuals in a group setting tend to exert less effort than when working alone?

• Social loafing

• Groupthink

• Social facilitation

• Deindividuation

Which psychologist is known for the Stanford prison experiment, which studied the psychological effects of perceived power?

• Philip Zimbardo

• Stanley Milgram

• Solomon Asch

• Albert Bandura

What is the term for the tendency to favor one's own group over other groups?

• Ingroup bias

• Outgroup homogeneity

• Social identity

• Group polarization