Social Psychology Practice

What is the most effective strategy to reduce prejudice and us-them thinking?

• Having groups work together on a task requiring cooperation to reach a common goal

• Discouraging social contact between groups

• Establishing legal equality of all groups

• Education about social issues and diversity 

At first Jimmy did not like his teacher, but after sitting in this teacher's class for a number of weeks Jimmy as started to like his teacher. this new perspective would be an example of:

• Diffusion of responsibility

• Mere-exposure effect

• Ethnocentrism

• In-group bias

Jimmy has constantly heard that he is not a good student, after a while starts to act how people percieve him. This recent behavioral change supports the

• Group polarization

• Self-fufilling prophecy

• Groupthink

• Social influence

Created the Stanford Prison Experiment

• Asch

• Zimbardo

• Milgram

• Harlow

Created an experiment studying conformity

• Erikson

• Harlow

• Asch

• Freud

When in a group, people are less likely to give aid

• Social loafing

• Groupthink

• Bystander effect

• Social facilitation

an unjustifiable attitude toward a group

• Stereotype

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Racism

What is the term for the phenomenon where people perform better on tasks when in the presence of others?

• Social facilitation

• Social loafing

• Groupthink

• Bystander effect

Which theory suggests that people are motivated to reduce discomfort arising from conflicting thoughts or beliefs?

• Cognitive dissonance theory

• Social identity theory

• Attribution theory

• Social comparison theory

What is the term for the tendency to attribute others' behaviors to internal factors while attributing our own behaviors to external factors?

• Fundamental attribution error

• Self-serving bias

• Actor-observer bias

• Confirmation bias