psyc module 42

personality traits; assigned roles

A dispositional attribution is to ________ as a situational attribution is to ________.

attribution theory

According to the ______________, people explain behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition

attitudes-follow-behavior principle

The ______________ indicates that, although we often cannot directly control all of our feelings, we can influence our feelings by changing our behavior.

no others were pulling with them.

In a study on social loafing, blindfolded students were asked to pull on a rope as hard as they could. The students pulled hardest when they thought:

reflected her personal disposition.

Students who were told that a young woman had been instructed to act in a very unfriendly way for the purposes of the experiment concluded that her behavior:

"teachers" were deceived and frequently subjected to stress.

The Milgram obedience experiments were controversial because the:

participants are not observed by other group members when giving their answers

Using Asch's procedure, conformity to group judgments would be LEAST likely when:

conformity.

When we adjust our own behavior or thinking so that it coincides with a group standard, we are exhibiting:

Normative social influence

___________ result(s) from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval.