SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAM STUDY SHEET
2026 BUNDLED QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ students attitude toward cheating bore little reaction to the
likelihood of their cheating. Answer: attitude hardly predicted their
varying behaviors
◉ When do peoples attitudes predict behavior. Answer: -social
influences on what we say are minimal.
-attitudes are specific to the behavior are ermined
- attitudes are potent
* self awareness, forge strong attitudes through experiences, and
peoples other influences on behavior are minimal
◉ Implicit. Answer: biases are pervasive, people differ in implicit
bias, and people are often unaware of their implicit bias
◉ explicit. Answer: people are aware of their biases.
◉ When does behavior affect attitudes?. Answer: Role playing,
Zimbardos standfrod prison study, abu ghraib controversy
,◉ Role playing. Answer: set of norms that defines how people in a
give social position ought to behave
◉ Zimbardos Prison Study. Answer: turned student into guards and
the other half prisoners by a coin toss. It altered the way the people
behaved after role playing. We enact a role that shapes our attitude.
saying becomes believing. The deeper meaning of the role playing is
that we are powerless machines. Behavior is a product of both the
individual person and the situation. The study appeared to have
attracted volunteers who were prone to aggressiveness.
◉ Cognitive Dissonance theory. Answer: tension that arises when
one is simultaneously aware of the two inconsistent cognitions. For
example: it may occur when we realize that we have, with little
justification, acted contrary to our attitudes or made a decision
favoring one alternative despite reasons favoring another.
◉ Self perception theory. Answer: the theory that when we are
unsure of out attitudes, we infer them much as would someone
observing us- by looking at our behavior and the circumstances
under which it occurs.
◉ Self fulfilling beliefs/prophecies. Answer: a belief that is leads to
its own fulfillment
Experimental Bias?
, ◉ objective reality/values. Answer: what you believe nto what
everyone else does
◉ How our values impact our perception. Answer: ...
◉ how our values impact our beliefs. Answer: ...
◉ how our vales impact our behavior. Answer: ...
◉ foot in the door. Answer: tendency for people who have first
agreed to a small request to comply later with al larger request
◉ social movements. Answer: political and social movements may
legislate behavior designed to lead to attitude change on a mass
scale
◉ interracial behavior an race attitudes. Answer: racial behavior
helps shape our social consciousness. By doing, not saying attitudes
were changed - legislating mortality .
◉ hindsight bias. Answer: tendency to exaggerate, after learning the
outcome, ones ability to have foresee how something is turned out.
(I knew it all along phenomenon)
2026 BUNDLED QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ students attitude toward cheating bore little reaction to the
likelihood of their cheating. Answer: attitude hardly predicted their
varying behaviors
◉ When do peoples attitudes predict behavior. Answer: -social
influences on what we say are minimal.
-attitudes are specific to the behavior are ermined
- attitudes are potent
* self awareness, forge strong attitudes through experiences, and
peoples other influences on behavior are minimal
◉ Implicit. Answer: biases are pervasive, people differ in implicit
bias, and people are often unaware of their implicit bias
◉ explicit. Answer: people are aware of their biases.
◉ When does behavior affect attitudes?. Answer: Role playing,
Zimbardos standfrod prison study, abu ghraib controversy
,◉ Role playing. Answer: set of norms that defines how people in a
give social position ought to behave
◉ Zimbardos Prison Study. Answer: turned student into guards and
the other half prisoners by a coin toss. It altered the way the people
behaved after role playing. We enact a role that shapes our attitude.
saying becomes believing. The deeper meaning of the role playing is
that we are powerless machines. Behavior is a product of both the
individual person and the situation. The study appeared to have
attracted volunteers who were prone to aggressiveness.
◉ Cognitive Dissonance theory. Answer: tension that arises when
one is simultaneously aware of the two inconsistent cognitions. For
example: it may occur when we realize that we have, with little
justification, acted contrary to our attitudes or made a decision
favoring one alternative despite reasons favoring another.
◉ Self perception theory. Answer: the theory that when we are
unsure of out attitudes, we infer them much as would someone
observing us- by looking at our behavior and the circumstances
under which it occurs.
◉ Self fulfilling beliefs/prophecies. Answer: a belief that is leads to
its own fulfillment
Experimental Bias?
, ◉ objective reality/values. Answer: what you believe nto what
everyone else does
◉ How our values impact our perception. Answer: ...
◉ how our values impact our beliefs. Answer: ...
◉ how our vales impact our behavior. Answer: ...
◉ foot in the door. Answer: tendency for people who have first
agreed to a small request to comply later with al larger request
◉ social movements. Answer: political and social movements may
legislate behavior designed to lead to attitude change on a mass
scale
◉ interracial behavior an race attitudes. Answer: racial behavior
helps shape our social consciousness. By doing, not saying attitudes
were changed - legislating mortality .
◉ hindsight bias. Answer: tendency to exaggerate, after learning the
outcome, ones ability to have foresee how something is turned out.
(I knew it all along phenomenon)
