Chapters 16 & 17 Review
PSYCH 100

1. Racial prejudice increases when jobs are scarce. This is predicted most directly by the

us versus them theory
social learning theory
direct contact theory
realistic conflict theory

2. Kitty Genovese was murdered in front of her apartment while nearly 40 people watched and did nothing to help. Social psychologists now believe that Kitty was not helped because

people were afraid to become involved in the violence
the situation was too emotional for most people
in-group and out-group factors prevented anyone else from responding
too many people were around, so the sense of responsibility became too diffused

3. Self-serving bias refers to our tendency to use

situational attributions for our own behavior
internal attributions for our own behavior
internal attributions for our successes and external attributions for our failures
internal attributions for our failures and external attributions for our successes

4. The classic line comparison experiment that resulted in subjects conforming to the incorrect judgments of the group was conducted by

Irving Janis
Philip Zimbardo
Solomon Asch
Stanley Milgram

5. When a person performs an action simply because an authority figure has given an order, the term that describes the behavior is

conformity
compliance
foot-in-the-door
obedience

6. The independent variable in the Festinger experiment on cognitive dissonance was

the amount of money subjects were paid to lie
whether subjects agreed to lie
the reason the students gave for telling a lie
how interesting the task was

7. The source, the audience, the message, and the medium are the four elements of

persuasion
conformity
group polarization
cognitive dissonance

8. From the Robber's Cave experiment, we learn that prejudice can develop from

having the resources of one group taken by the other group
dividing people into segregated and competitive groups
misunderstanding the traditional values of other groups
the cognitive belief that genetics should not be mixed across groups

9. Central route is to peripheral route as

unpersuasive is to persuasive
persuasive is to unpersuasive
thoughtless is to thoughtful
thoughtful is to thoughtless

10. Stereotypes can be

neutral or negative only
positive, negative, or neutral
positive only
negative only

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