PSYCHOLOGY 1101 UPDATED EXAM MANUAL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔We humans (and other
species) are very sensitive and susceptible to the
behavior of others in our environment. - ✔✔automatic mimicry
✔✔__________ __________ facilitates empathy - the
capacity to feel what others are feeling. - ✔✔automatic mimicry
✔✔adjusting our
behavior or thinking to match
with a group standard. - ✔✔conformity
✔✔conformity to
avoid rejection or gain acceptance - ✔✔Normative Social Influence
✔✔conformity
because we want to be accurate and we
assume that the group is better
informed/more knowledgeable than we are - ✔✔Informational Social Influence
✔✔When others are watching,
our performance on well learned or simple
tasks is better than when we have no
audience (if the task is complex or unfamiliar
performance is lower) - what we do well we
do better in front of friendly audiences, what
we find difficult may be impossible in the
presence of others. - ✔✔social facilitation
✔✔The tendency for people in a
group to exert less effort toward achieving a
common goal than when they are individually
accountable. Higher in individualist cultures. - ✔✔social loafing
✔✔the loss of self-awareness
and self-restraint that occurs in group
situations that foster both arousal and
anonymity. - ✔✔deindividuation
✔✔the enhancement of a group's
prevailing inclinations through discussion within
the group. - ✔✔group polarization
, ✔✔The tendency for decision-making
groups to isolate themselves from outside
information and reinforce each other's
sometimes erroneous evaluations and
judgment. - ✔✔groupthink
✔✔Social control and personal control interact.
• People who feel coerced can react by doing the
opposite - ✔✔the power of individuals
✔✔- literally, "prejudgment" - an
unjustified and usually negative attitude toward a
group - often one that is different from us in
terms of such characteristics as culture, ethnicity,
religion, politics or gender - ✔✔prejudice
✔✔expressed prejudice regarding race - ✔✔overt
✔✔prejudice that lingers - ✔✔subtle
✔✔Unconscious; can affect our
responses to various people without our conscious
awareness of their influence. - ✔✔automatic prejudice
✔✔- In societies with significant
disparities in income and social advantage, those
with power and wealth may justify their
advantage by assuming that those who succeed
are somehow more deserving of their success
than those who suffer - ✔✔social inequalities
✔✔idea that "good things happen to good
people and bad things happen to bad people." - ✔✔just-world phenomenon
✔✔Beliefs of prejudice - ✔✔stereotypes
✔✔- Predisposition to act - ✔✔discrimination
✔✔Those we identify with become our __________. Others form the ________. We are
automatically
biased against the _________. - ✔✔ingroup; outgroup; outgroup
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔We humans (and other
species) are very sensitive and susceptible to the
behavior of others in our environment. - ✔✔automatic mimicry
✔✔__________ __________ facilitates empathy - the
capacity to feel what others are feeling. - ✔✔automatic mimicry
✔✔adjusting our
behavior or thinking to match
with a group standard. - ✔✔conformity
✔✔conformity to
avoid rejection or gain acceptance - ✔✔Normative Social Influence
✔✔conformity
because we want to be accurate and we
assume that the group is better
informed/more knowledgeable than we are - ✔✔Informational Social Influence
✔✔When others are watching,
our performance on well learned or simple
tasks is better than when we have no
audience (if the task is complex or unfamiliar
performance is lower) - what we do well we
do better in front of friendly audiences, what
we find difficult may be impossible in the
presence of others. - ✔✔social facilitation
✔✔The tendency for people in a
group to exert less effort toward achieving a
common goal than when they are individually
accountable. Higher in individualist cultures. - ✔✔social loafing
✔✔the loss of self-awareness
and self-restraint that occurs in group
situations that foster both arousal and
anonymity. - ✔✔deindividuation
✔✔the enhancement of a group's
prevailing inclinations through discussion within
the group. - ✔✔group polarization
, ✔✔The tendency for decision-making
groups to isolate themselves from outside
information and reinforce each other's
sometimes erroneous evaluations and
judgment. - ✔✔groupthink
✔✔Social control and personal control interact.
• People who feel coerced can react by doing the
opposite - ✔✔the power of individuals
✔✔- literally, "prejudgment" - an
unjustified and usually negative attitude toward a
group - often one that is different from us in
terms of such characteristics as culture, ethnicity,
religion, politics or gender - ✔✔prejudice
✔✔expressed prejudice regarding race - ✔✔overt
✔✔prejudice that lingers - ✔✔subtle
✔✔Unconscious; can affect our
responses to various people without our conscious
awareness of their influence. - ✔✔automatic prejudice
✔✔- In societies with significant
disparities in income and social advantage, those
with power and wealth may justify their
advantage by assuming that those who succeed
are somehow more deserving of their success
than those who suffer - ✔✔social inequalities
✔✔idea that "good things happen to good
people and bad things happen to bad people." - ✔✔just-world phenomenon
✔✔Beliefs of prejudice - ✔✔stereotypes
✔✔- Predisposition to act - ✔✔discrimination
✔✔Those we identify with become our __________. Others form the ________. We are
automatically
biased against the _________. - ✔✔ingroup; outgroup; outgroup
