Social Psychology

Which of the following examples best represents altruism?

According to attribution theory, Pablo is most likely to attribute his high score on a difficult exam to

When his team wins a basketball game, Joe says it is because his team is so good; however, when his team loses, he says it is because the referees made a lot of unfair calls. Joe is most clearly demonstrating

A basic assumption underlying the definition of groupthink is that

The tendency to believe that another person's behavior is caused by dispositional factors rather than by environmental factors is called

Which of the following behaviors is most closely associated with the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?

A researcher has a hypothesis that men are more likely to be influenced by the central route to persuasion when buying a car than women are. The researcher randomly selects thirty men and thirty women to observe while they buy a car, and the researcher finds that women pay attention to information about the reliability of the car, whereas men pay attention to available colors that the car comes in. Which conclusion can the researcher draw?

Dr. Marcia assigned students a paper in which they had to support the side of a controversial topic they did not agree with. Before asking the students to write the paper, she gave them a survey to determine how strongly they disagreed with the topic. After the students wrote their papers, Dr. Marcia gave them another survey to rate their disagreement with the topic. She observed that the students' feelings about the topic became more strongly in agreement with the topic. Which of the following is the best conclusion?

Which of the following scenarios best represents conformity?

Which of the following situations best describes consummate love?

An example of proximity affecting interpersonal attraction is when

A supervisor who doubts the competence of a new employee unwittingly criticizes everything the new employee does. If the new employee consequently performs poorly, which of the following will most likely have occurred?

Which of the following is most useful in under-standing an employer's interpretation of an employee's poor performance?

Ethnocentrism is described in which scenario?

The factors chiefly responsible for interpersonal attraction include

The failure of bystanders to give victims of automobile accidents needed assistance is sometimes explained as an instance of

Which of the following scenarios best represents the frustration-aggression principle?

Leila saw a man treat a passerby rudely. Shortly after that, she saw him slip and fall to the ground. She immediately thought, "What a clumsy man," without acknowledging that he had walked onto a patch of ice. Leila is demonstrating the fundamental attribution error because

According to the graph above, the greatest degree of attitude change is likely to be produced by which of the following forms of advertising?

Which of the following is the best interpretation of Solomon Asch's findings, pictured above, concerning conformity in perceptual judgments?

After discussing a topic, a group makes a decision that is more extreme than the average position of all of the group members prior to discussion. The group's action is an example of

Which of the following best illustrates group polarization?

Which of the following examples describes groupthink?

In Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments, subject were LEAST likely to deliver maximum levels of shock when the

Of the following students, who is most clearly demonstrating an internal attribution?

Which method should be used by a researcher to test conformity? Assume in all groups that the researcher recruits participants and asks them to observe line X and line Y, where line X is clearly shorter than line Y.

Which of the following best illustrates the mere-exposure effect?

In Stanley Milgram's' classic study, a participant was placed in one room and a confederate was placed in another room where the participant could not see the confederate. Participants were told to shock the confederate when the confederate answered a question incorrectly. What was a major ethical violation of Milgram's study?

Which scenario best illustrates the concept of modeling aggression?

The more people present at a scene, the less likely it is that anyone will help a person in need. This phenomenon is a manifestation of

The scenario that best describes out-group homogeneity bias is

According to research on attraction, people are most likely to be attracted to others who are

A researcher would test the elaboration likelihood model by

The tendency to develop a positive attitude toward a product that has been advertised repeatedly in the media is referred to as

Which of the following is the independent variable in Philip Zimbardo's classic Stanford Prison Experiment?

"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured." This belief is best explained b

Research findings in the area of interpersonal attraction indicate that individuals are most likely to be attracted to others who are

Which of the following is the best example of scapegoating?

A stereotype is defined as which of the following?

A teacher who is mistakenly informed that a student is learning disabled begins to treat that student differently from others. The teacher does not call on the student in class or help her with challenging material. The student's graded gradually decline. This result is an example of which of the following?

Which of the following scenarios is the best example of the mere-exposure effect?

Which of the following regularities in behavior can most likely be accounted for by the existence of a group norm?

Which of the following was true of Solomon Asch's experiments on conformity?

Which of the following findings would support an interpretation of aggression as catharsis?

Which of the following concepts was advanced by social psychologists to help explain why people who are part of a crowd sometimes commit aggressive, antisocial acts that they would not commit if they were alone?