Psychology

self-serving bias

Christine just received a raise at her job, and thought, "I earned this raise because I'm an awesome worker." Last year, when she didn't receive a raise, she thought, "I didn't get a raise because my boss is a jerk." This is an example of a

an individual's psychological discomfort caused by two inconsistent thoughts.

Cognitive dissonance is

stereotype threat

Emma is taking a math exam, and on the first page, along with her name, Emma has to check a box indicating that she is female. If Emma does more poorly on the test because she had to mark her gender before doing the test, this may be evidence of

fundamental attribution error.

Mandy is driving rapidly, weaving through cars, and, while at a stoplight, honks at a car that was slow to move when the light turned green. "What a rude person," thinks the driver of the other car. However, Mandy is rushing to get to hospital to see her ill father. The driver of the other car has committed the Multiple choice question.

stereotyping.

Pam's new friend is a librarian so Pam assumes that she is intellectual, politically liberal, shy, not very social, and probably a vegetarian. Pam's thinking on this describes

stereotype

People who experience ___ threat experience anxiety due to negative expectations about themselves as members of a group, and will consequently underperform.

fundamental attribution error.

Sarah sees a customer at the grocery store shout at a cashier. "That customer is a jerk," thinks Sarah, but she doesn't know that the cashier has just been caught trying to steal the customer's credit card. Sarah has just committed the

take credit for successes and deny responsibility for failures.

Self-serving bias is the tendency to

contagion

Social ______ is an imitative behavior involving the spread of behavior, emotions, and ideas.

comparison

Social ______ is the process in which individuals evaluate their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and abilities in relation to other people.

attitudes

Social thinking involves not only perceptions and attributions but also ______ which are opinions and beliefs, about people, objects, and ideas, or, simply put, how we feel about things. Multiple choice question.

judged

Stereotype threat is the fear of being ______ on the basis of a negative stereotype about one's group.

situational; dispositional

The central question in making an attribution is whether the cause of behavior is due to ______ or ______ factors

situational; dispositional

The central question in making an attribution is whether the cause of behavior is due to ______ or ______ factors.

internal traits; external situations

The fundamental attribution error is the tendency for observers to overestimate the importance of ____ and underestimate the importance of ____ when they seek to explain the behavior of others.

situation or environment

The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to explain the behavior of others in terms of their personalities rather than aspects of the

increase the likelihood that the event or behavior will occur.

The self-fulfilling prophesy is when expectations about a future event or behavior act to

Social cognition

___________ is an area of social psychology that studies how individuals think within social situations.

Attitudes

about the U.S. president (a person), abortion (a behavior), affirmative action (a belief), or architecture (a concept).

comparison

is the process in which individuals evaluate their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and abilities in relation to other people.

social psychology

is the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to other people.

Deindividuation

is used to describe what occurs when being part of a group erodes personal identity and diminishes personal responsibility.

conformity

n Solomon Asch's experiment where participants sat in a group and compared the length of lines, the researcher was examining the power of

Normative

social influence is the influence that other people have on us because we want them to like and approve of us.

is a generalization about a group's characteristics that does not consider any variations from one individual to another.

stereotype

obidience

is behavior that complies with the explicit demands of the individual in authority.

self-serving bias.

If you do well on your psychology exam, you think, "Of course I did well. It's because I'm smart." However, if you do poorly on your exam, you blame it on the professor's inability to create a fair exam. This illustrates the

65%

In Milgram's classic obedience study, what percent of participants eventually used the highest setting on the shock generator to shock the learner?

conform

In Solomon Asch's experiment where participants sat in a group and compared the length of lines, the conclusion showed that the pressure to ______ is strong.

conformity

In Solomon Asch's experiment where participants sat in a group and compared the length of lines, the researcher was examining the power of

self-perception.

The theory that individuals make inferences about their attitudes by perceiving their own behaviors is called

False

True or false: When considering attitude change, the source of the message is the only important variable.

conformity

We all adhere to the rules and norms of society to some degree. The fact that we attend work or school clothed, rather than nude, is an example of

the face

Which of the following is a key social cue in persona perception?

A change in behavior brought about in order to follow the standards of others

Which of the following statements describes conformity?

An overestimation of the degree to which everyone else thinks or acts the way we do

Which of the following statements describes the false consensus effect?

stereotype threat.

William is an older adult who is very sensitive to the idea that older adults have "bad memories." In a research study, he was asked to indicate his age before he did a math test. If William does poorly on the test because marking his age activated all of his negative ideas about older adults and memory, William may be falling prey to

attitudes

are opinions and beliefs about people, objects, and ideas.

Social cognition is an area of social psychology that studies

how people think in social situations.

The false consensus effect

is a type of heuristic wherein we overestimate the degree to

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is a type of heuristic wherein we overestimate the degree to which others think or act the way we do.

contagion

is an imitative behavior involving the spread of behavior, emotions, and ideas.

Obedience

is behavior that complies with the explicit demand of the individual in authority.

Person perception is

the process by which impressions of others is formed by social stimuli.

What is the definition of social psychology?

the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to other people

Attribution

theory seeks to explain how we decide, on the basis of samples of an individual's behavior, what are the specific causes of that person's behavior.

The self-fulfilling prophecy is

when expectations about a future event or behavior act to increase the likelihood that the event or behavior will occur.