Psychology 1300 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

Psychology 1300 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS


Social Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--The scientific study of how
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we think about, influence, and relate to one another
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Social Psychologists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Use scientific methods to
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study how people think about, influence, and relate to one another
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-Study the social influences that explain why the same person will act
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differently in different situations | | |




Fundamental Attribution Error - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--The tendency
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for observers, when analyzing others' behavior, to underestimate the
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impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal
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disposition
-Is most likely to occur when a stranger acts badly
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-Has real-life and social consequences
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Napolitan and Colleagues (1979) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Students
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attributed the behavior of others to personal traits, even when they
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were told that behavior was part of an experimental situation.
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,When explaining others behavior, especially from a indivisualist Western
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cultural perspective: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Fundamental attribution
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error is committed by underestimating the influence of the situation
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and overestimating the effects of stable, enduring traits.
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-Behavior is more readily attributed to the influence of the situation.
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-Explaining and attributing actions can have important real-life social
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and economic effects.
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Attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--feelings influenced by beliefs, which
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predispose people to have specific reactions to objects, people, and
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events.


Peripheral Route Persuasion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--occurs when
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people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker's
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attractiveness


Central Route Persuasion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--occurs when
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interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable
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thoughts


Foot-in-the-door phenomenon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--The tendency | | | | | |



for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with
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a larger request
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, Role - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--a set of expectations (norms) about a
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social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave
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Attitudes follow behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Cooperative actions,
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such as those performed by people on sports teams, feed mutual liking.
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Such attitudes, in turn, promote positive behavior.
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When attitudes do not fit with actions, tensions are often reduced by
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changing attitudes to match actions (cognitive dissonance theory). -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--We act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance)
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we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) clash.
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-Brain regions become active when people experience cognitive
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dissonance.
-Through cognitive dissonance, we often bring attitudes into line with
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our actions (Festinger).
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Social Contagion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Chartrand and colleagues
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(1999)
-Demonstrated the chameleon effect with college students | | | | | |




-Automatic mimicry helps people to empathize and feel what others
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feel.
-The more we mimic, the greater our empathy, and the more people
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tend to like us.
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-This is a form of conformity.
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