Psych 181 Chap 15

Which compliance technique is correctly defined?

Both of these are correct

Social___is the branch of social psychology that investigates how people process social information and how they think about other people.

Cognition

_____ love refers to the deep, affectionate attachment people have for those with whom their lives are intertwined.

Consummate

Dr. Mohammed is a sociologist. Dr Johannes is a social psychologist. Which of these scientists focus on group behavior?

Only Dr. Mohammed focuses on group behavior.

An ad agency creates two ads for a particular car. One stresses the car's safety and gas mileage; the other simply shows how fun it is to drive. The first ad relies on ____ route to persuasion; the second, on the ____ route.

central; peripheral

When people's attitudes clash with their behavior, they experience a state of psychological tension called:

cognitive dissonance

Frieda is typically very shy. However, while watching a rock concert with a huge crowd, she lost her inhibitions and behaved in a sexually provocative way. Frieda's unusual behavior is BEST understood in terms of:

compliance

In social psychological experiments, an individual who secretly works for the experimenters is called a(n)

confederate

While eating at the university cafe, Janet sees a waiter's serving tray tilt, and the food and beverages spill onto four people. "What a careless, clumsy idiot," Janet mumbles to herself as she resumes eating, Janet has just committed:

fundamental attribution error

Which word is MOST nearly synonymous with the word "proximity"?

nearness

DeWayne is a police officer. When he is off the job, he is known as an easygoing, fun-loving person who enjoys life. When he is on the job, he is very stern, serious, and no nonsense. DeWayne's professional behavior is an example of a social:

schema

______ psychologists investigate human cognition, emotion, and behavior in relation to other people.

social

Which statement about Milgram's original obedience study is true?

A confederate always played the role of the learner.

Holding hostile or negative attitudes toward an individual or a group is called:

Prejudice

___ love tends to be particularly strong in the early stages of a relationship, whereas mature, long-standing relationship.

Romantic; companionate

Summer watches as a student stumbles and drops her books in the hall. If she demonstrates the fundamental attribution error, how would Summer explain the student's behavior?

She is a clumsy person.

A person in a group tends to exert more effort when she or he is individually accountable than when she or he is working with others toward a common goal. This is known as:

Social loafing

In a research project for her psychology class, Ariel performs a conformity study modeled on Asch's work. In her study, Ariel's participants make their response either aloud in the presence of the confederates or privately by checking a box on a response form. In a report of her results, she includes a _____ graph in which the public and private response conditions are shown on the x-axis and a measure of conformity is shown on the y-axis. The y-value for the public condition is _____ than that for the private condition.

bar; higher