<p> Review Quiz Unit 14</p><p>1. Describe the three main focuses of social psychology, and explain how the fundamental attribution error impacts our judgments of others. </p><p>2. Define attitude, and explain how attitudes and actions affect each other.</p><p>3. Describe the chameleon effect & mood linkage.</p><p>4. Discuss Asch’s experiments on conformity, noting the difference between normative and informational social influence.</p><p>5. Describe Milgram’s experiments on obedience, and explain how the conformity and obedience studies can help us understand our susceptibility to social influence.</p><p>6. Describe the conditions in which the presence of others is likely to result in social facilitation, social loafing or deindividuation.</p><p>7. Discuss how group interaction can facilitate group polarization and groupthink.</p><p>8. Describe how behavior is influenced by cultural norms.</p><p>9. Identify the three components of prejudice, and contrast overt and subtle forms of prejudice.</p><p>10. Discuss the social factors that contribute to prejudice, and explain how scapegoating illustrates the emotional component of prejudice.</p><p>11. Cite three ways that cognitive processes help create and maintain prejudice.</p><p>12. Explain how psychology’s definition of aggression differs from everyday usage, and describe various biological influences on aggression.</p><p>13. Outline psychological and social-cultural triggers of aggression, noting the relationship between violent video games and aggressive behavior.</p><p>14. Describe the influence of proximity, physical attractiveness, and similarity on interpersonal attraction.</p><p>15. Describe the effect of physical arousal on passionate love, and identify two predictors of enduring companionate love.</p><p>16. Define altruism from the perspective of social exchange theory and social norms.</p><p>17. Explain altruism from the perspective of social exchange theory and social norms.</p><p>18. Explain how social traps and mirror-image perceptions fuel social conflict, and discuss effective ways of encouraging peaceful cooperation and reducing social conflict.</p><p>Extra Review Questions: Some you may have to google, may not be in your text. 19. Define social psychology, and describe the two areas of social cognition and social influence.</p><p>20. Define person perception, describe the components of the interpersonal context in which person perception occurs, and explain the basic principles that guide person perception.</p><p>21. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of using social categories and implicit personality theories in forming perceptions of other people.</p><p>22. Note the effects of physical attractiveness on person perception, including the possible role of brain reward in making eye contact with physically attractive people.</p><p>23. Define attribution and the fundamental attribution error, and discuss how the fundamental attribution error explains people’s tendency to “blame the victim” of misfortune.</p><p>24. Define and provide examples of the attributional biases, including the actor–observer discrepancy, the self-serving bias, and the self- effacing bias. 25. Identify cultural differences in patterns of attributional biases.</p><p>26. List the components of an attitude, and identify the conditions under which attitudes are most likely to determine behavior.</p><p>27. Define cognitive dissonance, identify how it occurs, and discuss how it is typically resolved. </p><p>28. Define prejudice and stereotypes, discussing the role of social categories, in-groups, and out-groups in stereotype formation. </p><p>29. Explain how the out-group homogeneity effect and in-group bias can lead to prejudicial attitudes.</p><p>30. Discuss the implications of the “Robbers Cave” study and the jigsaw classroom technique for combating prejudice, and describe the steps that individuals can take to overcome prejudicial attitudes.</p><p>31. Define social influence and conformity, and discuss the findings of Solomon Asch’s research on conformity.</p><p>32. Identify the factors that influence conformity, and explain how culture affects conformity.</p><p>33. Define obedience and discuss the experimental design and results of Milgram’s obedience experiments.</p><p>34. List and explain the factors in Milgram’s original experiments that promoted destructive obedience.</p><p>35. List and explain the conditions identified by Milgram in later experiments that tended to decrease the level of destructive obedience.</p><p>36. Discuss the ethical objections to Milgram’s use of deception in his obedience experiments, and describe some of the applications of the social influence research to real-world events.</p><p>37. Describe how the controversy surrounding the murder of Kitty Genovese triggered the study of bystander helping behavior. </p><p>38. Distinguish between altruism and prosocial behavior, and list the factors that increase the likelihood of a bystander coming to the aid of a stranger. </p><p>39. Define the bystander effect and diffusion of responsibility, and explain how these and other factors played a role in the death of Kitty Genovese. </p><p>40. Explain how the presence of other people can strongly influence individual behavior, resulting in social loafing, social striving, or social facilitation.</p><p>41. Define deindividuation, describe its potential consequences, and identify the conditions under which it tends to occur.</p><p>42. Define persuasion, describe common persuasive tactics, and list suggestions for counteracting persuasion tactics. </p>
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