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Social Psychology (Review) Practice
Questions and Answers
social psychology - Answer✔️✔️-the scientific study of how we think about,
influence, and relate to one another.
attribution theory - Answer✔️✔️-Heider's theory that we explain someone's
behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition.
fundamental attribution error - Answer✔️✔️-the tendency for observers,
when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the
situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition.
situation - Answer✔️✔️-what we tend to underestimate
disposition - Answer✔️✔️-what we tend to overestimate, even when told the
behavior of another has to do with the situation!
Asians - Answer✔️✔️-least prone to fundamental attribution error
Americans - Answer✔️✔️-most prone to fundamental attribution error
when explaining own or familiar person's current behavior - Answer✔️✔️-
when we are MOST sensitive to how behavior changes with the situation
when explaining our own past behavior - Answer✔️✔️-when we are most
likely to attribute our behavior to disposition/trait
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attitudes - Answer✔️✔️-feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that
predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.
attitudes and actions - Answer✔️✔️-affect each other
peripheral route persuasion - Answer✔️✔️-occurs when people are
influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker's attractiveness.
central route persuasion - Answer✔️✔️-occurs when interested people focus
on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts.
foot-in-the-door phenomenon - Answer✔️✔️-the tendency for people who
have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request;
To get people to agree to something big, start small and build.
role - Answer✔️✔️-a set of expectations (norms) about a social position,
defining how those in the position ought to behave.
role playing - Answer✔️✔️-we tend to adapt the attitudes of persons were
are "acting" like
Stanford prison experiment - Answer✔️✔️-He gave them uniforms, clubs,
and whistles and instructed them to enforce certain rules. Others became
prisoners, locked in barren cells and forced to wear humiliating outfits. For
a day or two, the volunteers self-consciously "played" their roles. Then the
simulation became real—too real. Most guards developed disparaging
attitudes, and some devised cruel and degrading routines. One by one, the
prisoners broke down, rebelled, or became passively resigned. After only
six days, Zimbardo called off the study.
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cognitive dissonance theory - Answer✔️✔️-the theory that we act to reduce
the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions)
are inconsistent. For example, when we become aware that our attitudes
and our actions clash, we can reduce the resulting dissonance by changing
our attitudes.
cognitive dissonance ex. - Answer✔️✔️-when you start believing an
argument you wrote that you didn't believe in OR .revisionist history
fundamental attribution error - Answer✔️✔️-Driving to school one snowy
day, Marco narrowly misses a car that slides through a red light. "Slow
down! What a terrible driver," he thinks to himself. Moments later, Marco
himself slips through an intersection and yelps, "Wow! These roads are
awful. The city plows need to get out here."
chameleon effect - Answer✔️✔️-that we are natural mimics, unconsciously
imitating others' expressions, postures, and voice tones.
chameleon effect ex. - Answer✔️✔️-Sure enough, the students tended to rub
their face when with the face-rubbing person and shake their foot when
with the foot-shaking person.
empathize - Answer✔️✔️-feeling what other people are feeling
mood linkage - Answer✔️✔️-sharing up and down moods
conformity - Answer✔️✔️-adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide
with a group standard.
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Social Psychology (Review) Practice
Questions and Answers
social psychology - Answer✔️✔️-the scientific study of how we think about,
influence, and relate to one another.
attribution theory - Answer✔️✔️-Heider's theory that we explain someone's
behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition.
fundamental attribution error - Answer✔️✔️-the tendency for observers,
when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the
situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition.
situation - Answer✔️✔️-what we tend to underestimate
disposition - Answer✔️✔️-what we tend to overestimate, even when told the
behavior of another has to do with the situation!
Asians - Answer✔️✔️-least prone to fundamental attribution error
Americans - Answer✔️✔️-most prone to fundamental attribution error
when explaining own or familiar person's current behavior - Answer✔️✔️-
when we are MOST sensitive to how behavior changes with the situation
when explaining our own past behavior - Answer✔️✔️-when we are most
likely to attribute our behavior to disposition/trait
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attitudes - Answer✔️✔️-feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that
predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.
attitudes and actions - Answer✔️✔️-affect each other
peripheral route persuasion - Answer✔️✔️-occurs when people are
influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker's attractiveness.
central route persuasion - Answer✔️✔️-occurs when interested people focus
on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts.
foot-in-the-door phenomenon - Answer✔️✔️-the tendency for people who
have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request;
To get people to agree to something big, start small and build.
role - Answer✔️✔️-a set of expectations (norms) about a social position,
defining how those in the position ought to behave.
role playing - Answer✔️✔️-we tend to adapt the attitudes of persons were
are "acting" like
Stanford prison experiment - Answer✔️✔️-He gave them uniforms, clubs,
and whistles and instructed them to enforce certain rules. Others became
prisoners, locked in barren cells and forced to wear humiliating outfits. For
a day or two, the volunteers self-consciously "played" their roles. Then the
simulation became real—too real. Most guards developed disparaging
attitudes, and some devised cruel and degrading routines. One by one, the
prisoners broke down, rebelled, or became passively resigned. After only
six days, Zimbardo called off the study.
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cognitive dissonance theory - Answer✔️✔️-the theory that we act to reduce
the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions)
are inconsistent. For example, when we become aware that our attitudes
and our actions clash, we can reduce the resulting dissonance by changing
our attitudes.
cognitive dissonance ex. - Answer✔️✔️-when you start believing an
argument you wrote that you didn't believe in OR .revisionist history
fundamental attribution error - Answer✔️✔️-Driving to school one snowy
day, Marco narrowly misses a car that slides through a red light. "Slow
down! What a terrible driver," he thinks to himself. Moments later, Marco
himself slips through an intersection and yelps, "Wow! These roads are
awful. The city plows need to get out here."
chameleon effect - Answer✔️✔️-that we are natural mimics, unconsciously
imitating others' expressions, postures, and voice tones.
chameleon effect ex. - Answer✔️✔️-Sure enough, the students tended to rub
their face when with the face-rubbing person and shake their foot when
with the foot-shaking person.
empathize - Answer✔️✔️-feeling what other people are feeling
mood linkage - Answer✔️✔️-sharing up and down moods
conformity - Answer✔️✔️-adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide
with a group standard.
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