Py101 Final Exam
Norms - correct answer ✔rules that regulate social life, including explicit
laws and implicit cultural conventions
Role - correct answer ✔social positions that are governed by a set of norms
for proper behavior
Culture - correct answer ✔• Norms + Traditions + Beliefs/Values =
• A program of shared rules that govern the behavior of members of a
community or society
• A set of values, beliefs, and customs shared by most members of that
community
Conformity - correct answer ✔Altering one's behaviors and opinions to match
those of other people or to match other people's expectations
Normative Conformity - correct answer ✔occurs when we go along with the
crowd to comply with norms, avoid looking foolish
Informational Conformity - correct answer ✔occurs when we assume that the
behavior of the crowd represents the correct way to respond
Entrapment - correct answer ✔process by which individuals escalate their
commitment to a course of action to justify their investment of time, money,
and effort
, Social cognition - correct answer ✔An area of social psychology concerned
with social influences on thought, memory, perception, and beliefs
Attributions - correct answer ✔Our causal explanations for other people's
behavior
Attribution theory - correct answer ✔Theory that suggests that people are
motivated to find situational or dispositional causes for their own and other
people's behaviors
Situational (external) Attribution - correct answer ✔people infer that a
person's behavior is due to situational factors
Dispositional (internal) Attribution - correct answer ✔people infer that an
event or a person's behavior is due to personal factors such as traits, abilities,
or feelings
Fundamental attribution error (FAE) - correct answer ✔The tendency to
overestimate personality factors and underestimate the influence of the
situation when drawing conclusions about the behavior of other people
Self-serving biases - correct answer ✔Tendency to attribute our successes
to dispositional factors and our failures to situational factors
Attitudes - correct answer ✔People's evaluations of objects, of events, or of
ideas
- Can be about trivial topics (e.g., favorite soda, board game) or grand issues
(e.g., politics, religion)
- We can be aware of them or not
- Can be simple or complex
Norms - correct answer ✔rules that regulate social life, including explicit
laws and implicit cultural conventions
Role - correct answer ✔social positions that are governed by a set of norms
for proper behavior
Culture - correct answer ✔• Norms + Traditions + Beliefs/Values =
• A program of shared rules that govern the behavior of members of a
community or society
• A set of values, beliefs, and customs shared by most members of that
community
Conformity - correct answer ✔Altering one's behaviors and opinions to match
those of other people or to match other people's expectations
Normative Conformity - correct answer ✔occurs when we go along with the
crowd to comply with norms, avoid looking foolish
Informational Conformity - correct answer ✔occurs when we assume that the
behavior of the crowd represents the correct way to respond
Entrapment - correct answer ✔process by which individuals escalate their
commitment to a course of action to justify their investment of time, money,
and effort
, Social cognition - correct answer ✔An area of social psychology concerned
with social influences on thought, memory, perception, and beliefs
Attributions - correct answer ✔Our causal explanations for other people's
behavior
Attribution theory - correct answer ✔Theory that suggests that people are
motivated to find situational or dispositional causes for their own and other
people's behaviors
Situational (external) Attribution - correct answer ✔people infer that a
person's behavior is due to situational factors
Dispositional (internal) Attribution - correct answer ✔people infer that an
event or a person's behavior is due to personal factors such as traits, abilities,
or feelings
Fundamental attribution error (FAE) - correct answer ✔The tendency to
overestimate personality factors and underestimate the influence of the
situation when drawing conclusions about the behavior of other people
Self-serving biases - correct answer ✔Tendency to attribute our successes
to dispositional factors and our failures to situational factors
Attitudes - correct answer ✔People's evaluations of objects, of events, or of
ideas
- Can be about trivial topics (e.g., favorite soda, board game) or grand issues
(e.g., politics, religion)
- We can be aware of them or not
- Can be simple or complex
