General Psychology Chapter 10 Review

What is compliance?

• Changing one's behavior as a result of other people directing or asking for the change.

• Ignoring rules and guidelines

• Creating new policies

• Avoiding legal responsibilities

___________ attitudes are more likely to predict behavior than ________ ones.

• strong; weak

• positive; negative

• rational; emotional

• consistent; inconsistent

Which of the following is NOT a symptom of "groupthink"?

• Group invulnerability

• Stereotyping those who disagree as having invalid opinions

• Carefully listening to the opinions and input of everyone

• Having a don't rock the boat mentality

Define attitude.

• A tendency to respond positively or negatively toward a certain person, object, idea, or situation.

• A physical position of the body

• A type of clothing style

• A mathematical term

When the cause of behavior is assumed to be from external sources such as the weather, traffic, educational opportunities, and so on, it is said to be a __________ cause.

• internal

• external

• dispositional

• situational

Define social cognition.

• The mental processes that people use to make sense of the social world around them.

• A type of cognitive bias.

• A method of social communication.

• An emotional response to social stimuli.

Which of the following is an example of the affective component of an attitude?

• I only listen to country music; I am going to a country music concert soon.

• I think country music is is better than any other kind of music I hear.

• This is not the correct answer.

• I like country music; it's fun and uplifting.

What is “groupthink”?

• When people place more importance on maintaining group cohesiveness than on assessing the facts of the problem with which the group is concerned.

• A strategy for effective group decision-making.

• A method to encourage diverse opinions in a team.

• A technique to improve individual critical thinking.

Define obedience.

• Changing one's behavior at the command or request of an authority figure.

• Ignoring rules

• Being rebellious

• Questioning authority

Attitude formation is the result of ___________.

• learning

• genetic predisposition

• random chance

• environmental factors