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