Psych I/II Modules 19-20 Test

What is social psychology?

• The study of how people grow and develop

• The study of how people think about and influence each other

• The study of the human brain

• The study of emotions

Attribution theory explains that people judge behavior based on:

• Luck

• A person’s personality or situation

• Their favorite color

• Random events

What is the fundamental attribution error?

• Blaming the situation instead of the person

• Thinking a person’s behavior is caused by their personality, not their situation

• Ignoring a person’s behavior

• Always giving people the benefit of the doubt

A self-serving bias means:

• People take credit for success but blame others for failure

• People think everything is their fault

• People never change their opinions

• People always blame themselves

The foot-in-the-door phenomenon happens when:

• Someone ignores all requests

• Someone agrees to a small request and later agrees to a bigger one

• Someone only agrees to big requests

• Someone refuses all requests

Cognitive dissonance happens when:

• We ignore all decisions

• Our actions and attitudes do not match

• We always tell the truth

• We only believe in science

Conformity means:

• Changing behavior to match a group

• Always being original

• Acting differently than a group

• Ignoring social pressure

Solomon Asch’s conformity experiment showed that people:

• Never follow a group

• Often agree with a group, even if they know the group is wrong

• Always make their own choices

• Ignore social rules

Obedience is when people:

• Follow orders from authority figures

• Refuse to listen to anyone

• Always break the rules

• Make their own rules

In Milgram’s experiment, most people:

• Walked away immediately

• Continued obeying even when they thought they were hurting someone

• Stopped following orders quickly

• Never listened to the experimenter