Intro to Psychology Final

When experiencing _______ amnesia, you experience loss of memory for events that occurred prior to the trauma. When experiencing ____ amnesia, you cannot remember new information.

retrograde; anterograde

Travis is part of a group playing tug-of-war. He knows that his tram is stronger, so he doesn't try as hard as he could. Travis is engaged in ____________.

Social loafing

Kara gets an F on her psychology exam. Then she goes home and gets into an argument with her roommate, Lee. Lee assumes Kara is yelling at him because she likes to bully him, not because she had a bad day. Lee is making a ______.

Fundamental attribution error

_____ is the strengthening of an original group attitude after the discussion of views within a group.

Group polarization

What is modification of the opinions of members of a group to align with what they believe is the group consensus?

Groupthink

When people say you never forget how to ride a bike, they are referring to ___ memory, also called non-declarative memory.

Implicit

Jasmin belongs to her chess club on her campus. She prefers to associate with other members of the chess club while avoiding people that do not belong to this group. Jasmin has a(n) _____ bias.

In-group

What is the main point of the textbook discussion of Milgram's obedience study?

Individuals will obey authority to the point of potentially causing serious harm to another person.

Nicole wants a cookie. Heather has a cookie. Nicole pushes Heather and takes her cookie. Nicole doesn't intend to her Heather, Nicole just wants the cookie. This is an example of ______.

Instrumental aggression

Who was the social psychology professor at Yale who designed an obedience study in order to test the defense of " I was just following orders" typically used by accused Nazis?

Milgram

Which statement about social psychology is most accurate?

People's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by social situations

Dozens of people witness a purse snatching. One of the eye witnesses loudly yells "the man with the blue shirt did it." Later, when questioned by police, several other eyewitnesses remember the purse snatched wearing a blue shirt, even though the purse snatcher was a women in flowered dress. This is an example of _____: the effects of misinformation from external sources that leads to the creation of false memories.

Suggestibility

Elaborative rehearsal involves

Thinking about the meaning of the new information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory

What was the major flaw in the Stanford prison experiment?

Zimbardo did not use a control group

In order for a memory to go into storage (long term memory), it has to pass through 3 distinct stages: sensory, short-term, and ____ memory.

long-term