Unit 4 (Social Psychology)

Taking credit for your successes but ignoring your failures is an example of which of the following:

Milgram's shock experiment studied...

The graphs depict the distribution of test scores for two groups. Which of the following statements is true?

Because of ____, your parents might give you $40 after initially agreeing to give you $10

Lisa is a theater major. She believes all science majors are serious people. She is demonstrating...

Using the data presented in the table, what is the mode for the students who received a sticker on Friday?

All of the following are conditions that strengthens conformity except:

While playing tug of war, many people exert less effort with a larger team. This is know as:

Seniors think that they are a better high school class than freshmen. What explains this?

Josh takes a free sample of cheese at the store and feels he now has to buy some of the cheese:

Based on the results in the tables, which of the following statements is accurate?

In the Asch line expierment many people conformed because they wanted to fit in with the group

We view our enemies in a negative light. Our enemies have a similar view of us. This is:

Our tendency to "go with the flow" and go along with that others are doing

Which of the following phrases implies a experimental research method?

Which of the following phrases implies a correlational study?

Which of the following is used to reduce the effects of confounding variables in experiments?

Attribution theory states that people use which of the following to explain behavior?

A person who believed in the 2012 doomsday probably experienced ___ when the world didn't end

Type of persuasion based on superficial/incidental influences like appearance or popularity

Which of the following is the median of Rachel's scores?

A important contributor to deindividuation is

You ask your teacher to postpone the quiz 1 week, & they say no. You then get them to agree to postpone the quiz 1 day.

Which of the following is the range of Rachel's scores?

Because of ___, we often overestimate how much someone's behavior is caused by nature/their enduring traits.

You see a teenager get in a wreck and think that they are a bad driver. What term explains this

I hear a song on the radio. The more I listen to it the more I enjoy it. This is called:

Henry will not let women play on his basketball team. Lowe is displaying

In Asch's line experiment, subjects often gave incorrect answers when all of their peers did. Why?

In an emergency you point to a person in the crowd and say you call 911. You do this to avoid:

Athletes tend to perform better when in front of a crowd because of ____

Students may exert less effort in group projects because of

Which of these factors might lead people in masks to be more violent than they normally are?

Because of ____, the more we are exposed to something, the more we like it

the tendency to believe the world is just; therefore people get what they deserve and deserve what they get

Because of __, people in a like-minded group might make extreme decisions after discussion

Alexis believes Jessica is mean. After she treats Jessica terribly, Jessica is mean to her. 

When advertisers use famous people to endorse its product. They are using:

The mean score on an exam was 85 and the standard deviation was 35.2. This is concerning because SD measures

The phenomenon that occurs when pursuing self-interest ultimately leads to mutually destructive behavior.

Tom prefers romantic comedy movies, but he often goes to action-adventure movies to fit in with his friends.

The Milgram study found that obedience was strengthened all of the following times except: