Social Psychology

Although related to other fields, social psychology is distinct in that its emphasis is on

According to the definition of social psychology presented in lecture, social psychology is thestudy of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by _________.

____________ refers to the fear that one will confirm the stereotypes that others haveregarding one’s own group.

Recall that Festinger and Carlsmith gave participants either $1 or $20 for telling others that anexperiment was fun and interesting. The experiment entailed turning pegs on a pegboard onequarter turn at a time. Thus, in actuality, the experiment was tedious and boring. Study resultsshowed that

'Them'—a group that people perceive as being distinctively different or apart from their owngroup—is what social psychologists call a(n)

“Live fast and die young, that’s what I always say,” Rosie pronounces, as she stuffs down threemore Ding-Dong snack cakes and opens another pint of high-fat ice cream. Rosie knows that herdiet is unhealthy and harmful, of course. To reduce her dissonance, Rosie is

Victor goes to a fancy French restaurant. There are utensils on the table that he’s never evenseen before, and more spoons and forks than he’s ever seen on one table. Eager to dine in anappropriate and sophisticated way, Victor secretly watches other diners to see what they do.This is an example of

In a series of experiments, why did Solomon Asch (1951, 1956) ask participants to judge thelengths of lines which were clearly different from one another? Asch

9) The main difference between Sherif’s conformity study and Asch’s conformity study is thatAsch’s study

Milgram found that about ________percent of his participants went all the way to 450 volts inhis original experiment.

When our behaviour is a result of our boss telling us to do something, it is a form of

The experimenter in Milgram's study used all except which of the following verbal prods toencourage participants to continue?

Although he made a promise to himself to not take illegal drugs, Tom gave into peer pressure ata party to smoke marijuana because he did not want to be rejected by the others. Tom'sconformity is a result of

A social role is

Which of the following is not one of the steps in Darley and Latané's decision tree?

In an enactment of the Good Samaritan situation, Darley and Batson (1973) studied thehelpfulness of Princeton seminarians in order to assess whether helping behaviour wasinfluenced by

One factor that will increase the likelihood that a friendship between two people will develop is

The effect of _______ on _______ was vividly demonstrated in Zimbardo's (1971) classic studyof a simulated prison.

When participants in Milgram's experiments wanted to quit, they were given

Latané and Darley attempted to explain people's failure to intervene in cases like that of KittyGenovese, a woman who was violently attacked, in terms of

The tendency for opposites to mate or marry

ocial isolation has been shown to affect all of the following outcomes, except

According to what was covered in lecture, experiencing social exclusion tends to lead to all ofthe following except

Research on stereotype threat indicates that

Which of the following is an example of social isolation, as defined in psychology

Bonnie dislikes lawyers. This is an example of