Social Psychology Flashcards
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Solomon Asch's conformity experiments demonstrated that participants conformed to incorrect group judgments approximately what percentage of the time across critical trials?
Answer: 32–37%
Across Asch's critical trials, participants conformed to the incorrect majority about one-third of the time.
Which factor was found by Milgram to MOST dramatically reduce obedience in his shock experiments?
Answer: Having two confederates rebel against the experimenter
When two confederates defied the experimenter, obedience dropped to about 10%, showing that social support for defiance powerfully undermines authority.
The 'false consensus effect' refers to the tendency to:
Answer: Overestimate how many others share one's own beliefs and behaviors
The false consensus effect is the bias of assuming one's own views are more widely shared than they actually are.
According to terror management theory (TMT), reminders of mortality lead people to:
Answer: Strengthen adherence to cultural worldviews and self-esteem
TMT proposes that awareness of death heightens investment in cultural beliefs and self-esteem as buffers against existential anxiety.
A client consistently attributes colleagues' failures to laziness but attributes their own failures to situational factors. This asymmetry illustrates:
Answer: The self-serving bias combined with actor-observer asymmetry
The actor-observer asymmetry causes situational attributions for one's own behavior, while the self-serving bias protects self-esteem by attributing others' failures to internal causes.
The 'door-in-the-face' compliance technique works primarily through:
Answer: Reciprocal concessions
After refusing a large request, people feel obligated to comply with a smaller follow-up request because the requester appears to have made a concession.
Research on stereotype threat shows that performance deficits occur most reliably when targets:
Answer: Are in situations that make the stereotype personally relevant and salient
Stereotype threat impairs performance when individuals are aware that a negative stereotype about their group could confirm in a relevant testing situation.