Social Psychology

Although related to other fields, social psychology is distinct in that its emphasis is on

According to the definition of social psychology presented in lecture, social psychology is the study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by __________.

____________ refers to the fear that one will confirm the stereotypes that others have regarding one’s own group.

Recall that Festinger and Carlsmith gave participants either $1 or $20 for telling others that an experiment was fun and interesting. The experiment entailed turning pegs on a pegboard one quarter turn at a time. Thus, in actuality, the experiment was tedious and boring. Study results showed that

Them'—a group that people perceive as being distinctively different or apart from their own group—is what social psychologists call a(n)

“Live fast and die young, that’s what I always say,” Rosie pronounces, as she stuffs down three more Ding-Dong snack cakes and opens another pint of high-fat ice cream. Rosie knows that her diet is unhealthy and harmful, of course. To reduce her dissonance, Rosie is

Victor goes to a fancy French restaurant. There are utensils on the table that he’s never even seen before, and more spoons and forks than he’s ever seen on one table. Eager to dine in an appropriate and sophisticated way, Victor secretly watches other diners to see what they do. This is an example of

In a series of experiments, why did Solomon Asch (1951, 1956) ask participants to judge the lengths of lines which were clearly different from one another? Asch

The main difference between Sherif’s conformity study and Asch’s conformity study is that Asch’s study

Milgram found that about ________percent of his participants went all the way to 450 volts in his original experiment.

When our behaviour is a result of our boss telling us to do something, it is a form of

The experimenter in Milgram's study used all except which of the following verbal prods to encourage participants to continue?

Although he made a promise to himself to not take illegal drugs, Tom gave into peer pressure at a party to smoke marijuana because he did not want to be rejected by the others. Tom's conformity is a result of

a social role is:

Which of the following is not one of the steps in Darley and Latané's decision tree?

In an enactment of the Good Samaritan situation, Darley and Batson (1973) studied the helpfulness of Princeton seminarians in order to assess whether helping behaviour was influenced by

One factor that will increase the likelihood that a friendship between two people will develop is

The effect of _______ on _______ was vividly demonstrated in Zimbardo's (1971) classic study of a simulated prison.

When participants in Milgram's experiments wanted to quit, they were given

Latané and Darley attempted to explain people's failure to intervene in cases like that of Kitty Genovese, a woman who was violently attacked, in terms of

The tendency for opposites to mate or marry

Social isolation has been shown to affect all of the following outcomes, except

According to what was covered in lecture, experiencing social exclusion tends to lead to all of the following except

Research on stereotype threat indicates that

Which of the following is an example of social isolation, as defined in psychology.

Bonnie dislikes lawyers. This is an example of