Name: Period: Score /95 Unit 14 Study Assignment Social Psychology 1. Social behavior arises from our social. 2. Who proposed attribution theory? 3. Create an example of the fundamental attribution error. 4. Discuss how attribution can affect real life situations. 5. Create an example of central route persuasion. 6. When is central route persuasion more likely to occur? 7. What is meant by the peripheral route to persuasion?. 8. Give an example of foot-in-the-door phenomenon. 9. How are roles and attitude related? 10. Explain Zimbardo s famous prison study experiment.
11. What did Zimbardo s experiment (1972) teach us about roles? 12. Give an example of cognitive-dissonance theory. 13. Explain the chameleon effect. 14. Give the results of the following research studies to describe the effects of suggestibility: a. Cooper (1999) b. Morrison (2007) c. Phillps et al (1985, 1989) 15. Describe Solomon Asch s conformity experiment (1955). 16. What did we learn about conformity from Asch s research? 17. Conformity will increase under the following conditions: a. b. c. d.
e. f. g. 15. Explain how normative social influence affects conformity. 16. Describe Robert Baron s experiment (1996). 17. What did Baron s work teach about social influence? 18. Who is the researcher that studied obedience in a shocking way? 19. What was learned through this shocking experiment? (Be sure to include applicable %) 20. What was learned about obedience and when it would be higher? a. b. c. d.
21. Both Asch and Milgram s work teach a valuable lesson. What is it? 22. Explain how social facilitation affects behavior. 23. Explain how social loafing applied to the 1974 Alan Ingram experiment. 24. When is deindividuation most likely to occur? 25. When will group polarization occur? 26. How can group polarization affect attitudes like negativity and terrorism? Use the following studies to answer this question. a. McCauley and Segal (1987, 2002) b. Merari (2002) 27. Explain the reasoning behind groupthink, and the assumptions people make which make such reasoning possible. 28. How does culture affect each of the following? a. Norms. b. Personal space
29. Explain the result of exerting personal control rather than succumbing to social control. 30. Discuss the findings of each of the following studies about minority influence: a. Moscovici (1985) b. Wood et al (1994) 31. Explain each of the types of automatic prejudice (pg. 666) a. Implicit racial associations b. Unconcious Patronization c. Race-influenced Perceptions d. Seeing Black e. Reflexive Body responses 32. Discuss the ideas of in-group and out-group as they relate to prejudice and discrimination. 33. What is the scapegoat theory of prejudice?
34. Explain how each of the following are cognitive roots of prejudice. a.. Categorization b Vivid Cases c. Just-World Phenomenon 35. Aggressive behavior results from an interaction of and. 36. What are the genetic influences of aggression? 37. How does society and culture influence aggression? 38. Explain and give an example of the frustration-agression principal. 39. What role does the media play in fostering aggression. Be sure to include the results of at least two of the studies discussed. 40. What has research concluded about violence behavior and video games?
41. Discuss the role of each of the following in attraction: a. Proximity b. Attractiveness c. Similarity 42. Explain how mere exposure effect is involved in learning to like someone. 49. How does the Schachter theory of emotion relate to passionate love? 50. What was the result of research done by Dutton and Aron (1974 & 1989)? 51. Discuss why the following are keys to an enduring relationship: a. Equity b. Self-disclosure
52. In regard to bystander intervention, Darley and Latane (1968) found that individuals will intervene when: a. b. c. 53. Relate the findings of the previous question to bystander effect. 54. Alturism researchers have found that people are more likely to help when: a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. 55. Develop your own example of social-exchange theory and write it below.
56. Explain each of the following and follow it with an example: a. Reciprocity norm b. Social Responsibility Norm 57. Explain a Social Trap 58. Apply the idea of a mirror image perception to a hypothetical situation. 59. How do self-fulfilling prophecies affect social relations? 60. What was Sherif s camp experiment? 61. Explain how subordinate goals related to the previous experiment. 62. Discuss the process of GRIT