WorksheetsSocial Psychology
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 16mins
Conformity can be described as...
Humans sort themselves into In and Out Groups. These groups impact our identity.
We make generalizations about groups and then apply those generalizations to individuals.
We are prone to change our behavior to copy the behavior of others in order to match social norms.
There are strategies that can be used to convince us to follow the requests of other people or groups.
Freeman & Fraiser (1966) found that if people had agreed to place a postcard in their window saying "drive safely," they were more willing to build an ugly billboard in their yard. This was due to which compliance technique?
Consistency/Foot in the Door
Authority
Reciprocity/Door in the Face
Scarcity
Conformity is best described as
performing simple tasks more quickly in the presence of others.
adjusting our behavior or thinking toward a group standard.
neglecting critical thinking in order to preserve group harmony.
losing self-awareness in group situations that foster anonymity.
The "fundamental attribution error" phenomenon can best be seen in which of the following examples
John blames his failure to get a job on his lack of appropriate skills and ill preparedness
Phyllis doesn't get the lead in the school play and blames her drama teacher for this failure.
Jane blames herself for forgetting that she has a term paper due in two days
Bill doesn't hire John bc he believes that John's lateness is a result of John's laziness & lack of respect for the job. In reality, John was late bc he got a flat tire on the way to the interview
Karen understands that her friend is late because she was caught in rush hour traffic.
When Paul had his first oboe solo in the orchestra concert, his performance was far worse than it was when he rehearsed at home. A phenomenon that helps explain Paul's poor performance is known as
social loafing
groupthink
social inhibition (impairment)
deindividuation
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
The process by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events
Disposition
Self Serving Bias
Cognitive miser
Attribution
The tendency to explain our own successes to dispositional causes and our failures to situational causes - in order to protect our self-esteem.
Social Cognition
Situational Attribution
Self-serving Bias
Cognitive Selfishness
Restaurant owner: “I’m sorry. You won’t be able to come inside of the shop. We don’t have space for people in wheelchairs.”
This is an example of _____
stereotype
bias
discrimination
favouritism
_____ is an unfavourable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason about someone.
Stereotype
Discrimination
Prejudice
the tendency to attribute one's own behavior to situational factors but to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional factors
primacy effect
mere exposure effect
actor-observer bias
assumed-similarity bias
