Psychology: Quiz 12
does not give his own opinion first.
The president of a campus club holds a meeting to decide what they are going to do for the annual fundraiser. He will best guard against groupthink if he:
a stereotype.
A belief that characterizes people based merely on group membership is __________.
negative stereotyping of the other group.
A college is considering whether to put the English or the math department in a posh new building funded by an alumni billionaire. A group of English professors joke about the math faculty, saying that they are all alike—unsociable, unable to participate in a discussion of the arts, and boring. Their tendency to see members of the math department as different from themselves and very similar to one another in having such undesirable traits is an illustration of:
after acting on it.
After months of deliberation, James decides to play football instead of joining the cross country team. According to the cognitive dissonance theory, James will become more confident in his choice:
aversive racism
Brandon does not believe he is prejudiced. However, he got very nervous when told he was randomly assigned to room with a man from Costa Rica for his first year in college. He plans to spend as little time as possible in his room because of this reason. Brandon is probably experiencing which of the following?
Social loafing.
During the cold war years, the collective Russian farms had spectacularly low yields, while small, private plots kept by Russian citizens had phenomenally high yields. One reason that could be cited for the poor production output of large, collective Soviet farms would be
cognitive dissonance theory.
Humans have a mechanism built into the inner workings of the mind that create an uncomfortable feeling of conflict when there is inconsistency among explicit attitudes. This is BEST described by the:
representativeness
Javari is teaching a psychology class and tells his students, "Kenna is 31, single, outspoken, and bright. She majored in philosophy in college. As a student, Kenna was deeply concerned with discrimination and other social issues." When Javari asked his class if it was more likely that Kenna was A) a bank teller or B) a bank teller AND a feminist, most people in his class chose option B. Javari explained that their answer was incorrect because their _____________ heuristic led them astray.
attractiveness bias.
Jeremy is very good-looking. When people first meet him, they generally assume that he is intelligent, competent, and sociable because of his appearance. This phenomenon is known as:
When working out at the gym, Josh runs faster on his treadmill when another customer is running on the treadmill beside him than he does when he's all alone.
Which circumstance provides an example of social facilitation?
