Social Psychology – Full

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The way people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions is known as what?

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The idea that because people have learned to hide prejudiced attitudes to avoid allegations of racism, they reveal their prejudice in more subtle and
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Pat has an exaggerated need to submit to authority and feels that members of minority groups and social deviants should be punished. Pat would be characterised as:

The bogus pipeline is an instrument that was developed to measure attitudes that are otherwise difficult to measure because:

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Which two facets of personality investigated by social psychologists together predict very strong prejudice?

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A year 4 teacher finds two groups of boys are highly competitive during sport and are hostile towards each other. According to realistic conflict theory the teacher should:

In the jigsaw classroom technique,

In considering the minimal group paradigm, which statement is true?

When is contact is most likely to generalize to the outgroup as a whole?

Consider the following self-description: “It’s important to me to make others happy. I work hard to cooperate with others, and seldom get into arguments. My friends are more important to me than my professional success.” A(n) ________ is most likely to have provided such a self-description.

On the night of an important basketball game, Albert decided to leave his glasses at home. When his coach asked him if he wanted to return home to get them, Albert told the coach that he would rather not risk missing part of the game and that he’d try his best without them. Which of the following self-presentational strategies is Albert using?

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When are people most likely to make a downward social comparison?

In collectivist cultures, personal identity is defined largely in terms of:

Which of the following help explain how we sustain self-enhancing beliefs even when they run counter to reality?

Sociometer theory proposes that:

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People are more likely to act in line with personal beliefs than to conform to social pressures when they are:

You’ve recently learned that eating avocados, which you love, is bad for your health. To reduce the dissonance you experience after reading this news, you would most likely:

Hai has been taking expensive beta-carotene supplements for years because he believes they will reduce his risk of cancer. Hai has just learned that a well-controlled study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine showed that beta-carotene supplements do not reduce cancer risk. Hai is probably experiencing.

Researchers (Knox & Inkster, 1968) visited a race track and interviewed people betting on the horses, both before and after they had placed their bets. They found that people who ________ were more confident in their betting decisions because ______.

Of the four people presented below, which one would feel the least regret about altering her appearance, based on information in your text about cognitive dissonance?

When unscrupulous salespeople use lowballing as a means of selling cars, they take advantage of buyers’ illusions that their decision to buy a particular car was

Who is most likely to enjoy a boring and lackluster rock and roll concert performed by washed-up, fifty-something “has beens”?

In Festinger and Carlsmith’s (1959) experiment on cognitive dissonance, what variable did the experimenters manipulate to induce dissonance?

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Derek likes to bully his little brother Matt. Their mother begins to give Derek the mild punishment of a stern look every time Derek hits Matt. This is sufficient to stop Derek’s bullying, and in time, Derek stops bullying Matt even when his mother is not around. According to theories of insufficient punishment, why might this happen?

Based on the Ben Franklin effect, you are most likely to increase your liking for Tony when

You are in a foreign country and have no idea what the proper etiquette is for introducing yourself to strangers. You see your host make a deep bow to a new acquaintance, so you do the same. This is an example of:

Asch (1955) designed his line judgement study to test whether people will conform to group norms when the situation is:

Minority influence encourages groups to change and new ideas to develop, but in order for it to be successful it must display

In Milgram’s (1963) first experiment on obedience, how many of the 40 participants were completely obedient – that is, they continued to press the electric shock switches all the way to the end?

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In Sherif’s (1935, 1936) classic study, people developed a stable frame of reference only to abandon it when confronted with the different judgments of others. This is an example of:

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In order for Burger (2009) to conduct a study replicating Milgram’s work on obedience, he had to modify Milgram’s procedures. Which of the following is one of the modifications he made?

Felicia is initially the only member of the jury who believes that the defendant is innocent. After hearing and debating Felicia’s arguments, the jury unanimously declares the defendant not guilty. The jurors’ decision will most likely be characterized by: