The first day of class you are not sure if you are going to like your professor. However, by the end of the semester, you find that you feel positively tow
... [Show More] ard her. This change is likely the result of:
In the medical field, interns and residents are required to work such long shifts that they are perpetually exhausted and do not function optimally. Dissonance theory would suggest that a possible motivation for this policy is to:
Song and Prakash are both taking a very difficult and quite boring class in symbolic logic. Song is taking the class because she thought it would be interesting; Prakash is taking the class because it is required for his major. Mia asks them both what the class is like.
Based on cognitive dissonance theory, you could predict that Song would say it is and Prakash would say it is .
Americans may feel particularly good about themselves after Team USA wins an Olympic gold medal because social identity theory states
Jodie is a member of a jury that is trying to decide whether to award the plaintiff $5,000 or $10,000 in damages. While most of the jury favors the smaller award, Jodie favors the larger one. Jodie is the last to respond when the foreman polls the jury. What would make Jodie most likely to maintain her own view?
In the , people will be more likely to agree with a small request
Evolutionary theories of partner selection claim that males should seek out partners who are as a means of ensuring genetic fitness.
Lucia has just declared a major in engineering. You could predict that she will now see other engineering students as and see liberal arts students as .
Research suggests that one of the most important components to making a romantic relationship work is to:
Which of the following factors is NOT a cause of deindividuation?
According to the , primates may have evolved a large prefrontal cortex in order to help them successfully navigate complex and dynamic social groups.
The idea of inclusive fitness is designed to explain why:
Human beings have evolved as social animals who live in groups, in part because:
People are often advised not to make hasty decisions about other people.
The research on thin slices of behavior would suggest that this
Steve was named captain of his school’s basketball team. Because there were a number of players who did not know each other, the team lacked cohesion and did not play well together. Steve knew he would need to do which of the following to help his team succeed as
When public schools were desegregated, people thought that simply having black and white students attend school together would reduce stereotypes and prejudice. Given what you know about the Sherif studies on groups and prejudice, why did this approach NOT
Dao has been studying all day for her organic chemistry final. On the way home, she stops at the mall and buys a great dress on impulse.
When Dao tells her husband, he is annoyed, but he decides that she was just reacting to the stress of the exam. Dao’s husband was
making a attribution, a response that suggests they are
Dr. Johannson is going to give a speech arguing for stricter emissions standards for cars. For his speech to be the most persuasive to an environmental group, he should use arguments. For his speech to be the most persuasive to a group of automobile manufacturers, he should use arguments.
Which of the following individuals is exhibiting modern racism?
Research on the bystander intervention effect using a smoke-filled room revealed that most people:
Dissonance between two attitudes or between an attitude and a behavior causes:
When there is a conflict between attitude and behavior, why might dissonance be resolved by changing the attitude rather than the
When are you likely to see the LEAST amount of prosocial helping?
How would you rank the following social influence strategies in order of increasing degree of social pressure?
Shared goals that require cooperation are called:
By age , children can judge faces for their level of trustworthiness as well as adults can.
Gamiel takes Aliyah out to dinner for the first time. She is very surprised when he does not leave a tip for the waiter. If Aliyah decides that Gamiel did not leave a tip because he is stingy, then according to Heider, she is making a attribution. If Aliyah decides that Gamiel did not leave a tip because the service was terrible, she is making a attribution.
According to the good gene hypothesis, symmetrical faces are believed to be more desirable because symmetry has been shown to be related
Naomi was raised by her parents as a vegetarian her entire childhood. When she gets to college she finds that all of her new friends eat meat. After her first year with these new friends, Naomi finds herself starting to eat meat as well. Naomi’s situation demonstrates the effect of on attitudes.
In what season does more crime occur?
Which of the following is the most likely to predict behavior?
In , the presence of others may lead to increased arousal and enhanced performance.
Each of the following has been shown to be a reason for bystander apathy EXCEPT:
To create hostility and prejudice between two groups of boys for his Robber’s Cave Study, Sherif:
Larry comes to college absolutely believing that it is wrong to ever drink alcohol. After a while, he starts to drink moderately at parties. What would dissonance theory suggest that Larry will do and why?
Attributions are our attempts to explain the of other people.
Evolutionary theories of attraction predict age discrepancies in dating partners, because women generally are at their peak level of attractiveness when they are , whereas men are at their peak level of attractiveness when they are .
Sometimes after a big football game fans will riot, getting into fights and destroying property. People in such a crowd will often do things that they would never do on their own. This effect is due primarily to a
Different brain regions are activated when we consider ingroup versus outgroup members. For instance, the is activated when we engage in ingroup bias, but is less active when we consider members of outgroups.
Passionate love is associated with which brain structures?
Psychology researchers approached people who were standing in line to bet on a horse race and asked each person on which horse he or she planned to bet and why. Later, another researcher asked those people the same questions after they had placed the bets but before the race had begun. Given your knowledge of social psychology, you could predict that after placing the bets, people would be
positive about their chosen horses because of .
Inga is running for president of the student body of her university. The night before the election, she and her opponent have a debate in front of thousands of people. In reviewing the tape of the debate, Inga is most likely to attribute her own errors to and to attribute her opponent’s errors to .
Weiner’s theory argues that in addition to being either personal or situational, attributions for behavior can vary on which dimensions?
Katie feels as if her sorority is made up of many diverse and unique members. However, she feels like fraternities are composed of males who are all very similar to each other. Her bias is known as:
Christi will be starting college in the fall. She is filling out the questionnaire that will be used to match roommates. To maximize the probability that she and her roommate will become friends, Christi ought to:
Rebecca is studying in the library. She needs to leave her possessions to go to the bathroom. Which should she do to ensure that others help to guard her laptop and books while she is away?
Which of the following predictions would the kin selection hypothesis make?
The assault on Kitty Genovese was influential in promoting research on:
Sharrita has just started a new job. She is smart, attractive, funny, and reliable, yet her coworkers do not seem to like her. The literature on the Pratfall effect suggests that it might help her relationship with her coworkers if she:
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