Psychology Quiz Ch 12

According to the text, in which of the following has groupthink been known to occur?

Mass suicides by cults

According to Robert Sternberg's three components of love, which component addresses the physical aspects?

Passion

One of your friends tells you, "I didn't like the environmental awareness presentation today. First of all, it was too long, not to mention the person who gave it was drinking out of a polystyrene cup and drove away in a huge SUV." What kind of processing might your friend be using?

Peripheral route processing

Many businesses now require their employees to work in teams, believing that a group of four to five employees will accomplish more than four to five individuals working alone. This is an example of what concept?

Social facilitation

What does the research say about the concept of opposites attract?

Studies do not support this idea but instead offer the explanation of complementary qualities

How might someone who unknowingly is committing the fundamental attribution error explain Stanley Milgram's obedience study?

Subjects in that study must have been the kind of people that like to hurt others

Follow up research to Stanley Milgram's original study has found that ____________ of "teachers" will deliver shocks up to the point of being lethal.

65 percent

Which of the following people would probably not be a prime candidate for membership in a cult?

Lawrence, who has only a high school diploma but tends to be independent and happy with his life

When people are unable to reach a goal, frustration may result, which can ultimately turn into

Aggression

One of the keys to deindividuation is

Anonymity

In Asch's study, conformity decreased when

At least one confederate agreed with the participant

Prejudice is about___________, while discrimination is about ________________.

Attitudes, behavior

Which of the following would not be effective in minimizing groupthink?

Caroline wants her team to openly vote by a show of hands either for or against her business plan

Follow-up studies to Stanley Milgram's research have suggested that a teachers willingness to deliver potentially lethal shocks may be more a product of ______________than obedience.

Compliance

The public-service messages that encourage parents to sit down with their children and talk frankly about drugs are promoting which method of attitude formation.

Direct contact

Caleb almost always shows up late for work. His friends attributes this to Caleb's laziness. This is an example of a ______________ cause.

Dispositional

Maria was approached by her neighbor, who asked her to adopt three kittens that were abandoned by their mother. While Maria refused to take in three kittens, she did agree to adopt just one. What compliance technique did her neighbor use?

Door in the face

Connor needs just $20 more to go out with his friends. He asks his mother for $50, but she tells him he can have $30 instead. In the end, Connor ended up with $10 more than he originally planned. What technique did Connor use?

Door in the face technique

Which of the following represents the affective component of an attitude?

I love to go to the clubs-it makes me so happy

Kohanna thinks that everyone who smiles must always be happy, and this people who are quiet must be naturally shy. Such assumptions are the basis for

Implicit personality theory

Jewell and Amie became friends while taking an evening class at the local community college. Jewell was later horrified to find out that Amie was actually a teacher at the college. Subsequently, Jewell stopped talking with A,ie, thus ending their friendship. What theory of prejudice and discrimination might this be an example of?

In-group, out-group theory

Erin hates snakes, even though she has never been bitten or been close to one. She developed her feelings by seeing how scared her mother was when she came across them in the garden or even when watching a movie or television show in which there was a snake. Erin's attitude toward snakes was most likely acquired through

Vicarious conditioning

Which of the following scenarios probably will not result in the bystander effect?

You come across someone lying on a walking path while you are walking alone at your local nature center

Saul admits that he conforms so as to be liked by others. This is known as

normative social influence