CHAPTER 12-SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

CHAPTER 12-SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY groupthink ANSWER = When members of a group give priority to the cohesiveness of the group over the facts of a situation, they are engaging in what social psychologists call ________. persuasion ANSWER = What process describes the use of social influence to cause other people to change their attitudes and behavior? attitudes ANSWER = What do we call judgments about people, situations, objects, or thoughts? social loafing ANSWER = An individual who exerts less effort when working on a group task if individual contributions will not be evaluated is engaging in what is called ________. attributions ANSWER = explanations that account for one's own behaviors and/or the behaviors of others. Pink shirts are considered feminine; Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson wears pink shirts. ANSWER = Which of the following would result in cognitive dissonance? central-route processing