Social Psychology Review

1. Social Psychology Review Chapter 14

2. Identify the name associated with each major social psych study. • Stanford Prison • Obedience • Conformity • Zimbardo; Milgram; Asch

3. This often happens in politics and on juries where people attempt to conform their opinions to what they believe to be the consensus of the group. • Groupthink

4. Identify the major findings regarding people in emergency situations that Darley and Latane discovered in their research after the Kitty Genovese murder • Diffusion of responsibility; bystander effect

5. The reward theory of attraction states that we base our interpersonal attraction on these four things. • Proximity, similarity, self-disclosure, physical attractiveness

6. We often have discomfort when our behaviors conflict with our attitudes or thoughts. Therefore, we must change either our behaviors or attitudes. This is known as… • Cognitive dissonance

7. When we tend to focus on dispositional factors instead of situational factors, we are committing the ____. Is it more common in collectivist or individualistic cultures? • Fundamental attribution error; individualistic

8. Often, we take credit for our successes, but deny responsibility for our failures. This is • Self-serving bias

9. Prejudice is to _______ as discrimination is to ______. • Thoughts; actions

10. You will join in riots after the Cubs win the World Series this year. You wouldn’t normally do this, but since the group will assume responsibility instead of you, the individual, you do. • Deindividuation

11. Name the 3 components of Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love. • Intimacy, passion, commitment

12. You absolutely love the 7:30 start time at GCHS. After talking to your friends who love it, too, you begin to feel even more strongly. What is this? • Group polarization

13. ___________ is the perceived or real differences or similarities between oneself and another. • Social distance

14. An increase in performance due to being in a group is ______; a decrease in performance because of being in a group is _______. • Social facilitation; social loafing

15. This route to persuasion uses facts and evidence to influence people while this route to persuasion uses superficial cues (ex. celebraties) to influence people. • Central; peripheral

16. This persuasion technique gets people to agree to a small request in hopes that they will feel obligated to agree to later larger requests. • Foot-in-the-door

17. The actor-observer bias is the tendency to attribute our behaviors to ___________ factors and others’ behaviors to ______________ factors. • Situational;dispositional

18. We tend to take credit for our successes and deny responsibility for our failures when using the ________. • Self-serving bias