PSYCH 1000 UNIT 9 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Kurt Lewin's formula
Answer:
behaviour is a function of the person and the envi-ronment (B=f(P,E))
Question:
2. mimicry
Answer:
taking on for ourselves the behaviours, emotion-al displays, and facial ex-pressions of others
Question:
3. Social norms
Answer:
the (usually unwritten) guidelines for how to be-have in social contexts
Question:
4. What is one of the main motivators to go along with social norms?
Answer:
social approval
Question:
5. ostracism
Answer:
being ignored or excluded from social contact
Question:
6. high need-to-belong participants responded to os-tracism by...
Answer:
(1) increasing how much they identified with their in-group's beliefs and (2) increasing how morally
important those beliefs are
Question:
7. social roles
Answer:
guidelines that apply to specific positions within the group
Question:
8. social loafing
Answer:
occurs when an individual puts less effort into work-ing on a task with others
Question:
9. causes of social loafing
, Answer:
- low efficacy beliefs
- believing that an individ-
ual's contributions are not important to the group
- not caring about the
group's outcome
- feeling like the others are
not trying very hard
Question:
10. social facilitation
Answer:
occurs when one's perfor-mance is affected by the presence of others
Question:
11. True or False - novices perform best in practice ses-sions when nobody's watching while masters
of a skill perform better in competitions or when people are watching
Answer:
true
Question:
12. conformity
Answer:
a change in behaviour to fit in with a group, whether it is intentional or not
Question:
13. normative influence (public compliance)
Answer:
the result of social pres-sure to adopt a group's perspective in order to be accepted, rather than
re-jected by the group
Question:
14. informational influence (private acceptance)
Answer:
occurs when people feel the group is giving them useful information
Question:
15. group-think
Answer:
a decision-making prob-lem in which group mem-bers avoid arguments and strive for agreement
Question:
16. Stanley Milgram's Obedience Study
Answer:
study showing a person willingly harming another solely because an author-ity figure was there
telling them to do so- used a shock board
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Kurt Lewin's formula
Answer:
behaviour is a function of the person and the envi-ronment (B=f(P,E))
Question:
2. mimicry
Answer:
taking on for ourselves the behaviours, emotion-al displays, and facial ex-pressions of others
Question:
3. Social norms
Answer:
the (usually unwritten) guidelines for how to be-have in social contexts
Question:
4. What is one of the main motivators to go along with social norms?
Answer:
social approval
Question:
5. ostracism
Answer:
being ignored or excluded from social contact
Question:
6. high need-to-belong participants responded to os-tracism by...
Answer:
(1) increasing how much they identified with their in-group's beliefs and (2) increasing how morally
important those beliefs are
Question:
7. social roles
Answer:
guidelines that apply to specific positions within the group
Question:
8. social loafing
Answer:
occurs when an individual puts less effort into work-ing on a task with others
Question:
9. causes of social loafing
, Answer:
- low efficacy beliefs
- believing that an individ-
ual's contributions are not important to the group
- not caring about the
group's outcome
- feeling like the others are
not trying very hard
Question:
10. social facilitation
Answer:
occurs when one's perfor-mance is affected by the presence of others
Question:
11. True or False - novices perform best in practice ses-sions when nobody's watching while masters
of a skill perform better in competitions or when people are watching
Answer:
true
Question:
12. conformity
Answer:
a change in behaviour to fit in with a group, whether it is intentional or not
Question:
13. normative influence (public compliance)
Answer:
the result of social pres-sure to adopt a group's perspective in order to be accepted, rather than
re-jected by the group
Question:
14. informational influence (private acceptance)
Answer:
occurs when people feel the group is giving them useful information
Question:
15. group-think
Answer:
a decision-making prob-lem in which group mem-bers avoid arguments and strive for agreement
Question:
16. Stanley Milgram's Obedience Study
Answer:
study showing a person willingly harming another solely because an author-ity figure was there
telling them to do so- used a shock board
