Chapter 11 Quiz: Social Psychology

Which of the following best exemplifies prosocial behavior?

Tyler visits his aunt once a week to bring her groceries.

Who conducted the Stanford prison experiment?

Zimbardo

What is the just-world hypothesis?

an ideology common in the United States that people get the outcomes they deserve

Which of the following is the best example of peripheral route persuasion?

anti-smoking advertisements that rely on celebrity spokespeople advocating for reduction in cigarette use

Which type of persuasion involves logic-driven arguments using data and facts to convince people of an argument's worthiness?

central route

Don knows that drinking too much liquor is a costly habit that is bad for his health, but he continues to drink large amounts of liquor. He also thinks he is a smart person that makes good choices. Don feels some psychological discomfort from this contradiction, which is also called ________.

cognitive dissonance

Suppose you are walking down a street. A woman has fallen down, but because there are so many people around it does not occur to you that you should help. You just assume someone else is about to help her and keep walking. This is an example of ________.

diffusion of responsibility

Which of the following is the best example of the foot-in-the-door technique of persuasion?

getting your parents to agree to cut their smoking down by a few cigarettes, then asking them to quit altogether

Which of the following best defines the Asch effect?

influence of the group majority on an individual's judgment

Prejudice is a mixture of all of the following EXCEPT:

ingroup bias

What is groupthink?

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

Participants of the Milgram obedience studies were

ordered to play the role of prison guards.

Who was Stanley Milgram?

social psychology professor at Yale who wanted to test the defense of "I was just following orders" typically used by accused Nazis

What is the main point of the Stanford prison experiment?

social roles are powerful determinants of human behavior

most directly concerned with the study of how people think about, influence and relate to one another.

Social Psychology

Which of the following is the best example of central route persuasion?

anti-smoking advertisements that use charts and graphs to show how many people die from smoking-related causes each year

Billie is a(n) ________ because he believes people over age 65 should have their driver's license suspended, the elderly use up important social resources, and they occupy jobs that should belong to younger, more capable people.

ageist

The Milgram experiment required the participation of a(n) ________ to play the part of the person being shocked because the experiment would be invalidated if the participant realized the electric shock treatment was faked.

confederate

Which type of persuasion involves an indirect route that relies on association of peripheral cues to associate positivity with a message?

peripheral route

We have a tendency to explain the behavior of strangers in terms of _________ and to explain our own behavior in terms of ________.

personality traits; situational constraints