QUIZ #8 Review

Social psychology refers to...

• how people affect one another

• the aspects of personality and social interaction

• the influence of interpersonal and group relations on human behavior

• all of the above

True or False: Attribution is basically how we explain other people's behaviors

• True

• False

In the fundamental attribution error, you tend to ______________ internal factors and _____________ the power of situations on behavior.

Select the choice that correctly fills in the blank.

• underestimate; overemphasize

• overemphasize; underestimate

• overemphasize; overemphasize

• underestimate; underestimate

Will is late for a business meeting. Ben, his boss attributes his tardiness to laziness and irresponsibility. But in reality, Will was out of his house an hour and half early and is late because of traffic.

What is this an example of?

• social roles

• fundamental attribution theory

• social loafing

• bystander effect

In the Just World Hypothesis, people believe that ...

• Good things happen to "bad" people and bad things happen to "good" people

• Good things happen to “good” people and bad things happen to “bad” people

• both of these

• none of these

If someone is struggling with a rare disease, then they must have done something evil for which they are now being punished.

What would this be an example of?

• Social loafing

• Bystander effect

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Just World Hypothesis

Conformity refers to...

• Tendency to shift one’s opinions or actions towards opinions and actions of other people due to social pressure

• Changing your behavior to go along with a group, even if you do not agree with the group

• none of these

• both of these

True or False: The Asch effect showed that our individual judgements are NOT influenced by the group majority

• True

• False

Participants were told to deliver shocks to “learners” if they answered incorrectly. Participants obediently gave them lethal shocks, being

more obedient than most people would have predicted. Which study is being described?

• Social roles by Zimbardo

• Obedience to authority by Milgram

• Classical conditioning by Pavlov

• none of these

True or False: 1/3 of the participants administered lethal shocks in Milgram's study.

• True

• False