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MCCORMICK'S UNIT 9 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Central Route Persuasion

Answer:

Occurs when interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts

Question 2: Informational Social Influence

Answer:

influence resulting from one's willingness to accept others' opinions about reality

Question 3: Attribution Theory

Answer:

The theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition

Question 4: Social Facilitation

Answer:

Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others

Question 5: Discrimination

Answer:

Behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward the members of a group.

Question 6: Deindividuation

Answer:

The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.

Question 7: Culture

Answer:

Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.

Question 8: Peripheral Route Persuasion

Answer:

Occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker's attractiveness (Men would be easily swayed by a curvy, bottom-heavy woman than another man)

Question 9: Social Psychology?

Answer:

The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.

Question 10: Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer:

The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.

Question 11: Attitudes

Answer:

Attitudes are Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people, ideas, or objects that are based on a person's past experiences, shape his or her future behavior, and are evaluative in nature.

Question 12: Norm

Answer:

Principles of right action, binding upon the members of a group and serving to guide, control, or regulate proper and acceptable behavior.

Question 13: Groupthink

Answer:

The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.

Question 14: Stereotype

Answer:

A generalized belief about a group of people

Question 15: Ingroup Bias

Answer:

the tendency to favor our own group

Question 16: Scapegoat Theory

Answer:

the theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame

Question 17: Normative Social Influence

Answer:

influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval

Question 18: Social Loafing

Answer:

The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.

Question 19: Group Polarization

Answer:

The enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group.

Question 20: Just-World Phenomenon

Answer:

the tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get