Quiz 14 Social Psychology

Attributions that maximize credit for our successes and minimize blame for our failures are called __ biases.

Self-serving

__ psychologists study how people influence one another.

Social

The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to internal causes and our own behavior to external causes is the __ effect.

Actor-observer

Helping others despite a cost to ourselves is called __ behavior.

Altruistic

A like or dislike that influences our behavior toward a person or thing is called a(n) __.

Attitude

A set of thought processes we use to assign causes to our own and other's behaviors is called __ .

Attribution

Altering one's behavior to match other people's behavior or expectations is called __.

Conformity

Of the three types of information we use to make attributions of someone's behavior, the one that compares the person's behavior with that of others is called __ information.

Consensus

The third type of information we use to make attributions of someone's behavior which looks at how the person's behavior varies from one time to the next is __ information.

Consistency

The fundamental attribution error is also called the __ bias.

Correspondence

Explanations of someone's behavior based on their individual characteristics are called internal or __ attributions.

Dispositional

The state of unpleasant tension that occurs when one's behavior is inconsistent with their attitude is called cognitive __ .

Dissonance

And the one that looks at how the person's behavior varies from one situation to another is called __.

Distinctiveness

The persuasion technique in which a modest request is made followed by a larger request is called the __ technique.

Foot-in-the-door

The __ hypothesis states that the main cause of anger and aggression are obstacles standing in the way of doing or obtaining something.

Frustration-aggression

The tendency to attribute one's behavior to internal causes at the expense of external ones is referred to as the __ attribution error.

Fundamental

The tendency to work less hard when sharing work with other people is called social __ .

Loafing

The study by Milgram was a study on __.

Obedience

The __ dilemma is when a person must choose between a cooperative act or a selfish act that might hurt others.

Prisoner's

Explanations of someone's behavior based on events in their immediate environment are called external or __ attributions.

Situational