Social Psych Practice Quiz
groupthink
An excessive tendency to seek concurrence among group members. Example - a business leader welcomes a variety of opinions from subordinates and invites experts' critiques of her company to inhibit this
two-factor theory
Schachter's theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal - specifically suggests that passionate love can be facilitated by physical arousal
conformity
Solomon Asch's experiment was designed to study...
cognitive dissonance theory
When no weapons of mass destruction were found following the US invasion of Iraq, some Americans revised their memories of the main rationale for going to war. We can best explain why people change their memories in terms of...
get into more arguments and fights
compared to their nonplaying counterparts, kids who play a lot of violent video games have been found to...
normative social influence
conformity resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval is said to be a response to:
Philip Zimbardo
devised a simulated prison and randomly assigned college students to serve as prisoners or guards; experiment illustrated the imact of role-playing on attitudes
informational social influence
influence resulting from one's willingness to accept others' opinions about reality. Example - after hearing respected medical authorities lecture about the value of regular exercise, Raul begins to jog regularly.
stereotypes
overgeneralized beliefs about a group of people that often underlie prejudicial emotions are called:
bystander effect
people are less likely to give aid if an emergency occurs in the presence of many observers
diffusion of responsibility
plays an important role in bystander effect
attitude; behavior
prejudice is an ... , discrimination is a ...
fundamental attribution error
refers to our tendency to underestimate the impact of situational influences and overestimate the impact of personal dispositions in explaining the behavior of others
aggressiveness
research has clearly demonstrated that animals can be bred for...
Zimbardo
the participants in ...'s prison study were so endangered by their role-playing experience that the experiment was discontinued
mere exposure effect
the phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them (contributes to positive relationship between proximity and liking)
beliefs, emotions, predispositions to action (C)
the three components of prejudice
aggression
verbal behavior intended to hurt another person
Solomon Asch
social psychologist who found that individuals conformed to a group's judgment even when it was clearly incorrect
social facilitation
tendency for people to do better on SIMPLE tasks when in the presence of other people. This implies that, whenever people are being watched by others, they will do well on things that they are already good at doing.
cognitive dissonance
the discomfort we feel when two thoughts are inconsistent
social loafing
Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
deindividuation
a loss of self-awareness and self-restraint in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity
altruism
behaving unselfishly to enhance the welfare of others
conscious; unconscious
explicit attitudes are typically..., whereas implicit attitudes are often...
conciliation
grit attempts to reduce conflict through