Social Psychology Flashcards
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The 'bystander effect' suggests that the likelihood of a person receiving help in an emergency decreases as the number of bystanders:
Answer: Increases
The bystander effect demonstrates that diffusion of responsibility among more onlookers reduces the probability any individual will intervene.
In Milgram's obedience studies, which factor most increased participants' likelihood of defying the authority figure?
Answer: Seeing another 'teacher' refuse to continue
Social proof from a peer who refused significantly undermined the authority's power and emboldened participants to disobey.
Which cognitive bias leads people to attribute their own failures to situational factors while attributing others' failures to dispositional factors?
Answer: Actor-observer bias
The actor-observer bias reflects our tendency to use situational explanations for ourselves but dispositional explanations when judging others.
Muzafer Sherif's Robbers Cave experiment demonstrated that intergroup conflict could be reduced most effectively through:
Answer: Superordinate goals requiring cooperation
Superordinate goals that required both groups to cooperate reduced hostility more effectively than simple contact alone.
Social loafing is most likely to be reduced when individual contributions to a group task are:
Answer: Identifiable
When people know their individual output can be identified and evaluated, they are less likely to reduce their effort in group settings.
The phenomenon where group discussion leads members to adopt more extreme positions than they initially held is called:
Answer: Group polarization
Group polarization occurs because discussion exposes members to persuasive arguments and normative pressure that push the group toward a more extreme version of the initial tendency.
Which persuasion route in the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) relies on superficial cues like source attractiveness rather than careful argument evaluation?
Answer: Peripheral route
The peripheral route involves attitude change based on simple cues rather than effortful processing of message content.