Social Psychology - supersession 2020

Question 1

Psychological state occurring in group members that results in a tendency to do things not not normally done when alone

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Deindividuation

Question 2

When change is the result of a request

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Compliance

Question 3

Exerting less effort when performing the same task alone

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Social loafing

Question 4

When attitude change is driven by efforts to reduce tension caused by inconsistencies between attitudes and behaviours

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Cognitive dissonance

Question 5

Beliefs about the groups to which we belong; part of our self-concept

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Social identity

Question 6

Which is not proposed to be keys to attraction

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Financial status

Question 7

A phenomenon in which the presence of others improves a person's performance

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Social facilitation

Question 8

Which is not a technique in creating compliance

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High-ball technique

Question 9

A proposition that frustration leads to aggression

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the frustration-aggression hypothesis

Question 10

A bias towards overthinking the behaviour of others and its causes

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Fundamental attribution error

Question 11

When our expectations of another causes us to act in ways that lead the person to behave as expected

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 12

When behaviour or beliefs change as a result of implicit group pressure

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Conformity

Question 13

A false assumption that all members of some group share the same characteristics

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Stereotype

Question 14

The process whereby one person's behaviour is affected by the words or actions of others

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Social influence

Question 15

The bystander effect: the chance of someone helping in an emergency __________ as the number of people present increase

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decreases

Question 16

George has a tendency to attribute his successes to internal factors and failures to external factors. This is...

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A self-serving bias

Question 17

Mental processes associated with peoples perceptions of and reactions to other people

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Social cognitiion

Question 18

Which is not part of Sternberg's triangular theory of love?

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Friendship

Questions 18