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Social Psychology ( Chapter 16) Study
Guide with Complete Solutions
Social Psychologists - Answer✔️✔️-Scientifically studying how we think
about, influence, and relate to one another.
Attribution Theory - Answer✔️✔️-The theory that we explain someone's
behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition.
Fundamental Attribution Error - Answer✔️✔️-The tendency for observes,
when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the
situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition.
What cultures do not make the Fundamental Attribution Error as much? -
Answer✔️✔️-East Asian
Self-serving Bias - Answer✔️✔️-People's tendency to attribute positive
events to their own character, but attribute negative events to external
factors.
Attitudes - Answer✔️✔️-Feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that
predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.
Peripheral Route Persuasion - Answer✔️✔️-Occurs when people are
influenced by incidental clues, such as a speaker's attractiveness.
Central Route Persuasion - Answer✔️✔️-Occurs when interested people
focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts.
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Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon - Answer✔️✔️-A tendency for people who
agree to a small action to comply later with a larger one.
Door-in-the-Face Technique - Answer✔️✔️-When the persuader attempts to
convince someone to comply with a request by first making an extremely
large request that the respondent will obviously turn down.
Social role - Answer✔️✔️-A set of rights, duties, expectations, norms, and
behaviors that a person has to face and fulfill.
Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment - Answer✔️✔️-Young men were put
in jail, some designated as officers, some as prisoners. After 2 days,
volunteers subconsciously "played" their roles, causing "officers" to be
awful.
Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance Theory - Answer✔️✔️-The theory that we
act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when 2 of our thoughts (
cognition) are inconsistent.
Chameleon Effect - Answer✔️✔️-Unconsciously mimicking others'
expressions, postures, and voice tones help us feel what they are feeling.
Conformity - Answer✔️✔️-Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide
with a group standard.
Asch's Conformity Experiments - Answer✔️✔️-He would test the group
with easy questions, then in question 3 he would have them all give the
obviously wrong answer and see if the last one would conform.
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Social Psychology ( Chapter 16) Study
Guide with Complete Solutions
Social Psychologists - Answer✔️✔️-Scientifically studying how we think
about, influence, and relate to one another.
Attribution Theory - Answer✔️✔️-The theory that we explain someone's
behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition.
Fundamental Attribution Error - Answer✔️✔️-The tendency for observes,
when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the
situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition.
What cultures do not make the Fundamental Attribution Error as much? -
Answer✔️✔️-East Asian
Self-serving Bias - Answer✔️✔️-People's tendency to attribute positive
events to their own character, but attribute negative events to external
factors.
Attitudes - Answer✔️✔️-Feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that
predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.
Peripheral Route Persuasion - Answer✔️✔️-Occurs when people are
influenced by incidental clues, such as a speaker's attractiveness.
Central Route Persuasion - Answer✔️✔️-Occurs when interested people
focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts.
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Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon - Answer✔️✔️-A tendency for people who
agree to a small action to comply later with a larger one.
Door-in-the-Face Technique - Answer✔️✔️-When the persuader attempts to
convince someone to comply with a request by first making an extremely
large request that the respondent will obviously turn down.
Social role - Answer✔️✔️-A set of rights, duties, expectations, norms, and
behaviors that a person has to face and fulfill.
Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment - Answer✔️✔️-Young men were put
in jail, some designated as officers, some as prisoners. After 2 days,
volunteers subconsciously "played" their roles, causing "officers" to be
awful.
Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance Theory - Answer✔️✔️-The theory that we
act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when 2 of our thoughts (
cognition) are inconsistent.
Chameleon Effect - Answer✔️✔️-Unconsciously mimicking others'
expressions, postures, and voice tones help us feel what they are feeling.
Conformity - Answer✔️✔️-Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide
with a group standard.
Asch's Conformity Experiments - Answer✔️✔️-He would test the group
with easy questions, then in question 3 he would have them all give the
obviously wrong answer and see if the last one would conform.
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