Sherrill General Psychology Sp16 Chapter 11 Flash Cards

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QUESTION 11.1

_____involves the study of social interactions,

stereotypes, prejudices, attitudes, conformity, group behaviors, and

aggression.


ANSWER 11.1


QUESTION 11.2

Maria wants to conduct a study on how students in

college classrooms conform to the accepted behaviors of other students. Her study

would fall under the field of specialty known as ______

psychology.


ANSWER 11.2


QUESTION 11.3

David does not believe he will get the job

because he did not make a good first impression. His belief is based on

the concept of the ______.


ANSWER 11.3


QUESTION 11.4

_______ is defined as the tendency for an individual to feel a diminished sense of responsibility to assist

in an emergency when other bystanders are

present.


ANSWER 11.4


QUESTION 11.5

Tanya just met a man who had great manners. She

makes the assumption that he must be successful, sell educated and financially secure. She bases this

assumption on the concept known as the ________.


ANSWER 11.5


QUESTION 11.6

____________ is defined as the first information we receive

about a person tends to have the greatest influence on our perception of that

person.


ANSWER 11.6


QUESTION 11.7

If you believe a person does something due to

their temperament, tendency, or inclination, you are using an ______

attribution.


ANSWER 11.7


QUESTION 11.8

If you assume that traits occur together in others’

personalities, such as believing that outgoing people must have high self-esteem,

you are using the theory known as the_____.


ANSWER 11.8


QUESTION 11.9

______ is defined as the tendency to infer other

positive (or negative) traits from our perception of one

trait in another person.


ANSWER11.9


QUESTION 11.10

The way in which we perceive, evaluate,

categorize and make judgments about the qualities of others is

known as ______.


ANSWER 11.10


QUESTION 11.11

The theory that we attempt to make sense out of other

people’s behavior by attributing it to either dispositional (internal) causes of situational

(external) causes is called the ___.


ANSWER 11.11


QUESTION 11.12

Jennifer knows that her friend would not normally be so

grouchy and mean to her, and assumes that something must have happened to make her act that way. She believes

that her friend’s actions are due to an _____ attribution.


ANSWER 11.12


QUESTION 11.13

________ is the tendency to overestimate

dispositional (internal) causes and to

underestimate situational (external) causes of

behavior.


ANSWER 11.13


QUESTION 11.14_______ is described as the concept that our beliefs and attitudes are

more common than they really are, or at least more prevalent than beliefs held by others that are inconsistent with our own.


ANSWER 11.14


QUESTION 11.18

_______ is defined as a situation in which we

conform, not because of an actual change in our beliefs, but because we think we will benefit in some way (such as

gaining approval)


ANSWER 11.18


QUESTION 11.19

The tendency to change or modify behaviors so that

they are consistent with those of other

people is called ____.


ANSWER 11.19


QUESTION 11.20

______ is an attributional bias caused by the

belief that we control events in our own lives that are really beyond

our control.


ANSWER 11.20


QUESTION 11.21

Joshua is guilty of ______ when he does not invite the young lady inside of his home because she is

low income and he believes that she will

steal from him.


ANSWER 11.21


QUESTION 11.22A person bumps into you at a

concert, which spills your drink. Your assumption that the person

did this because they are a clumsy jerk, and not because

there are so many people present that there is no room to walk around without bumping into

each other, is known as the ___.


ANSWER 11.22


QUESTION 11.23

______ is defined as the behavioral consequences of prejudice in which one

group is treated differently from another

group.


ANSWER 11.23


QUESTION 11.24

______ is defined as negative,

unjustifiable, and inflexible attitudes toward a group and

its members.


ANSWER 11.24


QUESTION 11.25

If we use the reactions of others to judge the

meaning of a situation, then we are guilty of

using _______.


ANSWER 11.25


QUESTION 11.26

____ is a kind of conformity in which we

give in to social pressure in our public responses

due to direct requests of others, but do not change

our private beliefs.


ANSWER 11.26


QUESTION 11.27

The tendency to see one’s own group in a favorable light is

called ____.


ANSWER 11.27


QUESTION 11.28

Stanley Milgram’s 1963 study was testing to see if

people would be _______ when asked to harm

another person.


ANSWER 11.28


QUESTION 11.29

Marvin believes that all women are

horrible drivers. He is guilty of having a

_______.


ANSWER 11.29


QUESTION 11.30

_____ is defined as the social influence in which we alter our behavior in response to commands or orders from people perceived as having some power or authority over us.


ANSWER 11.30

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