Psychology Test Banks- Chapter 13 questions and correct revised answers 2024

Consider the following scenario: when discussing her recent grades, Sherri indicated that she did very well in math and attributes her success to studying very hard. Even though she studied equally hard for chemistry, Sherri failed the exam but explains this failure in terms of her unfair professor. This is an example of: -correct answer Self-serving bias The text makes an important distinction between ________, which refers to a negative attitude toward people based on their membership in a group, and ________, which is concerned with actually treating people unfairly based on their group membership -correct answer Prejudice; discrimination You are conducting a conformity experiment patterned after the one utilized by Solomon Asch. Under which of the following conditions would you expect conformity to be the highest (i.e., the most people will conform)? -correct answer When there are four confederates in the group Based on the findings of Milgram's research, which of the following led to the greatest decrease in harmful obedience in the study? -correct answer When the "teacher" was solely responsible for the outcome Suppose that someone has just opened a new night club and you freely choose to carry a big, obnoxious, heavy sign advertising this business around campus for three hours on a very hot day. According to ________, you would probably rate this activity as the most enjoyable (or the least boring) if someone paid you ________ to do it -correct answer The cognitive dissonance theory; $1 Self-perception theory asserts that -correct answer People infer their attitudes from watching their own behaviors, just as they do when watching others Which of the following characteristics would be the least likely to enhance the persuasiveness of a communicator? -correct answer Having a communicator who is directive After Gerri reluctantly agrees to type her boyfriend's psychology term paper, he told her it might actually be 75 pages long. Gerri appears to be a potential victim of -correct answer The low-ball technique