Social Psychology Test Review

When a person tends to favor people that blend with thier own facial features is called

Which of the following processes most often operates in groupthink?

The discomfort we feel when two thoughts are inconsistent is called

Parents who discipline their children by hitting is teaching aggression through

Class members are asked to work in a group to recieve the exact grade, what will this lead to

The destructive obedience of participants in the Milgram experiments best illustrates?

The tendency to recall faces of one's own race more than faces of other races

The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint in a group situation that fosters anonymity

Beliefs, emotions and predispoistions to actions are the three components to...

Which type of persuasion is most likely use when people are naturally analytical?

An expectation that people will help those who depend on them is known as

A person's behavior is most likely to be consistent with attitude when

The gradual escalating levels of destructive obedience in the Milgram exper shows dangers of

According to the two-factor theory of emotion Jeff is more likely to experience emotion after

A store owner charges Black customers more than Hispanic, example of what

What is the unselfish regard for the welfare of others?

What is the theory that your social behavior is an exchange process, max benefits & min costs?

What is the belief that leads to its own fulfillment?

When a mild-mannered woman had a electrode implanted in her amygdala, she

Research participants believed that the Asch conformity test involved a study of

The enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through group discussion is called

Agressive behavior being influenced by personal frustration, exposure, & high levels of arousal

When conflicting parties, each pursuing their self interest but have destructive behaviors 

Our tendency to underestimate how others' behavior is influenced by assigned roles?

Accepting others' opinion about reality is to ____ as the desire to gain approval is to _____.

Organisms often respond to _____ with a fight-or-flight reaction.

Studies of role-playing most directly highlight the effects of

During the experiment by Dutton and Aron when did men interact with attractive women?

According to the social exchange theory, what is guided by calculations of costs & beneifts?

The ingroup is the set of people with whom we share a common

Feelings that predipose us to respond in particular ways to objects, people, and events:

The longer Chinese people have resided in the U.S., the less they exhibit

what is the term for rules for socially acceptable behavior?

Media violence can be the result of people reenacting the _____ provided by the media.

In which study were the participants deceived about how much shock the victim actually received

Equity and self-disclosure are important to the development of

When is prejudice automatic and unconscious?

Social psychologists arrange for people to drop coings in a elevator to study

operating fuel-inefficent car despite the effect on the enviorment illustrates

If poverty causes high rates of crime, high crime rates can justify discrimination...

Animals can be bred for aggressivenment.

Zimbardo using the prison study to explain guards in Iraq is explained by

Initally prejudiced whites are likely to become more accepting of blacks following what event

Prejudice is a (n)_______; discrimination is a(n) ________.

What is the influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or aviod disapproval?

Zimbardo's prison study focused on

White university women didnt critize a flawed essay written by a black student, this is

Tendency 2 overestimate the extent to which a strangers violent behavior stems from personality

Adjusting one's behavior or thinking toward a group standard

Our first impressions of people we meet are most likely to be determined by their