Social Psychology Study Guide

What is the study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in social contexts, influenced by real or imagined others called?

• Social Psychology

• Cognitive Neuroscience

• Developmental Biology

• Behavioral Economics

Which of the following best describes 'Group Processes' in social psychology?

• The study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in social contexts

• How people form ingroups (similar others) and outgroups (different others)

• Factors influencing aggression and prosocial behavior

• Oversimplified beliefs about a group that ignore individual differences

Fill in the blank: ________ refers to factors influencing aggression and prosocial behavior in social psychology.

• Helping and Harming Behavior

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Social Facilitation

• Group Polarization

What is the relationship between attitudes and behavior, including how attitudes are formed and changed, called in social psychology?

• Attitudes

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Social Facilitation

• Groupthink

Stereotypes are oversimplified beliefs about a group that ignore individual differences.

• True

• False

What is the tendency for people to favor their ingroup and view outgroup members as more similar than they are called?

• outgroup homogeneity effect

• ingroup favoritism

• social facilitation

• group polarization

What is the risk of confirming negative stereotypes about one's group called?

• Stereotype Threat

• Confirmation Bias

• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

• Groupthink

What are explanations for the causes of behavior, which can be personal (internal) or situational (external), called?

• Attributions

• Schemas

• Heuristics

• Motivations

What is the tendency to overemphasize personal characteristics and underestimate situational factors when evaluating others' behaviors called?

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Self-Serving Bias

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Confirmation Bias

What is the tendency to attribute our own successes to situational factors and our failures to personal factors called?

• Actor-Observer Discrepancy

• Self-Serving Bias

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Confirmation Bias