PSY 2012 EXAM 4 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% PASS 2026/2027
Social Psychology - ANS how people influence our behavior, beliefs, and attitudes. Organized
around social thinking, social influence, and social relations.
Fundamental attribution - ANS tendency to overestimate the effect of dispositional
influences on other people's behavior. Our attribution can affect our attitude by what we think
is going on.
Attitude - ANS belief that includes an emotional component
Foot in the Door Phenomenon - ANS to ask for something little then ask for something bigger
after
Bait and Swicth - ANS Company advertise low price just to get customers to come in then
switch it up
Low-Ball - ANS Offer low price but then other things are needed which will raise the price
Cognitive Dissonance Theory - ANS unpleasant mental experience of tension resulting in
conflicting thoughts and behaviors
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, Asch Experiment - ANS would real subject change their answer to wrong answer to fit in with
everyone else
Milgram experiement - ANS if someone would continue to obey rules even if that meant
hurting someone
Social Facilitation - ANS Enhanced performance on easy tasks in the presence of others
Social Loafing - ANS Tendency to become less productive in groups because of feeling of less
responsibility
Deindividuation - ANS Loss of self-awareness and self restraint in group. happens when no
one knows who you are
Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Study - ANS subjects randomly assigned to role of prisoner or
guard and thrown into jail. Guards began to take the power to the head and prisoners became
depressed.
Group interaction on popularity - ANS group discussion can strengthen the dominant position
held by individual group members
Factors that contribute to prejudice - ANS beliefs, actions, other-race effect, vivid cases, just
world phenomenon
Factors that affect interpersonal attraction - ANS proximity, similarity, reciprocity, physical
attractiveness
Predictors of enduring companionate love - ANS equity, and self-disclosure
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ANSWERS 100% PASS 2026/2027
Social Psychology - ANS how people influence our behavior, beliefs, and attitudes. Organized
around social thinking, social influence, and social relations.
Fundamental attribution - ANS tendency to overestimate the effect of dispositional
influences on other people's behavior. Our attribution can affect our attitude by what we think
is going on.
Attitude - ANS belief that includes an emotional component
Foot in the Door Phenomenon - ANS to ask for something little then ask for something bigger
after
Bait and Swicth - ANS Company advertise low price just to get customers to come in then
switch it up
Low-Ball - ANS Offer low price but then other things are needed which will raise the price
Cognitive Dissonance Theory - ANS unpleasant mental experience of tension resulting in
conflicting thoughts and behaviors
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, Asch Experiment - ANS would real subject change their answer to wrong answer to fit in with
everyone else
Milgram experiement - ANS if someone would continue to obey rules even if that meant
hurting someone
Social Facilitation - ANS Enhanced performance on easy tasks in the presence of others
Social Loafing - ANS Tendency to become less productive in groups because of feeling of less
responsibility
Deindividuation - ANS Loss of self-awareness and self restraint in group. happens when no
one knows who you are
Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Study - ANS subjects randomly assigned to role of prisoner or
guard and thrown into jail. Guards began to take the power to the head and prisoners became
depressed.
Group interaction on popularity - ANS group discussion can strengthen the dominant position
held by individual group members
Factors that contribute to prejudice - ANS beliefs, actions, other-race effect, vivid cases, just
world phenomenon
Factors that affect interpersonal attraction - ANS proximity, similarity, reciprocity, physical
attractiveness
Predictors of enduring companionate love - ANS equity, and self-disclosure
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