PSY 3331 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED
Social Psychology Ans✓✓✓Study how people think, feel and behave.
Milgram Experiment Ans✓✓✓obedience test; electrical shocks given to
"learner" when answered incorrectly; learners were not actually being
shocked.
Showed that some people under pressure would go all the way to highest
volt.
Fundamental Attribution Error Ans✓✓✓the tendency for observers,
when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the
situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition
Think someone behaves a certain way because of how/who they are
versus taking a look at the situation as a whole
Disposition Ans✓✓✓Internal Factors....that is, beliefs, values,
personality traits and abilities that guide behavior
implicit vs. explicit attitudes Ans✓✓✓unconscious
conscious
, Construal Ans✓✓✓how individuals perceive, comprehend, and
interpret the world around them, particularly the behavior or action of
others towards themselves.
Schema Ans✓✓✓generalized knowledge about the physical and social
world such as what kind of behavior to expect when dealing with
different people
Stereotypes Ans✓✓✓schemas we have for people of various kinds
automatic vs. controlled processing Ans✓✓✓Automatic- (Implicit)
Information passively absorbed through the environment that is gained
without effort
Controlled- (Explicit) Actively working to gain information(flashcards)
Controlled processing can become automatic over time, such as learning
a new language
Channel Factors Ans✓✓✓certain situational circumstances that appear
unimportant on the surface but that can have great consequences for
behavior, either facilitating or blocking it or guiding behavior in a
particular direction
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED
Social Psychology Ans✓✓✓Study how people think, feel and behave.
Milgram Experiment Ans✓✓✓obedience test; electrical shocks given to
"learner" when answered incorrectly; learners were not actually being
shocked.
Showed that some people under pressure would go all the way to highest
volt.
Fundamental Attribution Error Ans✓✓✓the tendency for observers,
when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the
situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition
Think someone behaves a certain way because of how/who they are
versus taking a look at the situation as a whole
Disposition Ans✓✓✓Internal Factors....that is, beliefs, values,
personality traits and abilities that guide behavior
implicit vs. explicit attitudes Ans✓✓✓unconscious
conscious
, Construal Ans✓✓✓how individuals perceive, comprehend, and
interpret the world around them, particularly the behavior or action of
others towards themselves.
Schema Ans✓✓✓generalized knowledge about the physical and social
world such as what kind of behavior to expect when dealing with
different people
Stereotypes Ans✓✓✓schemas we have for people of various kinds
automatic vs. controlled processing Ans✓✓✓Automatic- (Implicit)
Information passively absorbed through the environment that is gained
without effort
Controlled- (Explicit) Actively working to gain information(flashcards)
Controlled processing can become automatic over time, such as learning
a new language
Channel Factors Ans✓✓✓certain situational circumstances that appear
unimportant on the surface but that can have great consequences for
behavior, either facilitating or blocking it or guiding behavior in a
particular direction
