Fall, 2009

YSK—Test 5:  Friday, November 13, 2009

Chapter 16

2 short answers

 

Characteristics of social psychologists (the focus of social psych)

 

Impression formation/person perception

 

Primacy effect

 

Factors affecting interpersonal attraction and how they work

(proximity, familiarity or mere exposure; competence; physical

appearance, including matching; similarity)

 

Stereotypes & discrimination

 

Cooperation (SherifŐs study & superordinate goals)

 

Components of attitude

 

Relationship between attitudes and behavior

 

Factors in persuasion (characteristics of persuader and message)

 

Cognitive Dissonance theory

 

Fundamental Attribution Error

                  Dispositional and situational attributions

 

MilgramŐs obedience studies

 

Social comparison

 

Bystander effect (altruism and group size)

 

Diffusion of Responsibility

 

Kitty GenoveseŐs role in prosocial behavior studies

 

Stages in an emergency and the effect of the presence of others at each

 

From text only (not covered in class): social facilitation, deindividuation, just world phenomenon, conditions that strengthen conformity, and the foot-in-the-door phenomenon