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Chapter 16: Social Behavior
1. Describe how various aspects of physical appearance may influence our impressions of
others.
2. Explain how schemas, stereotypes, and other factors contribute to subjectivity in
person perception.
3. Explain the evolutionary perspective on bias in person perception.
4. Explain what attributions are and why we make them.
5. Describe the distinction between internal and external attributions.
6. Summarize Weiner's theory of attribution.
7. Describe several types of attributional bias and cultural variations in attributional
tendencies.
8. Summarize evidence on the role of physical attractiveness and similarity in attraction.
9. Summarize evidence on the role of reciprocity and romantic ideals in attraction.
10. Describe various distinctions regarding love described by Berscheid and Hatfield, and
Sternberg.
11. Summarize the evidence on love as a form of attachment.
12. Discuss cross-cultural research on romantic relationships and evolutionary analyses
of mating patterns.
13. Describe the components and dimensions of attitudes.
14. Discuss the relations between attitudes and behavior.
15. Summarize evidence on source factors, message factors, and receiver factors that
influence the process of persuasion.
16. Discuss how learning processes can contribute to attitudes.
17. Explain how cognitive dissonance can account for the effects of counterattitudinal
behavior and effort justification.
18. Relate self-perception theory and the elaboration likelihood model to attitude change.
19. Summarize research on the determinants of conformity.
20. Describe the Featured Study on obedience to authority and the ensuing controversy
generated by Milgram's research.
21. Discuss cultural variations in conformity and obedience.
22. Describe the Stanford Prison Simulation and its implications.
23. Discuss the nature of groups and the bystander effect.
24. Summarize evidence on group productivity, including social loafing.
25. Describe group polarization and groupthink.
26. Explain how the chapter highlighted three of the text's unifying themes.
27. Relate person perception processes and attributional bias to prejudice.
28. Relate principles of attitude formation and intergroup competition to prejudice.
29. Relate ingroups, outgroups, and threats to social identity to prejudice.
30. Discuss some useful criteria for evaluating credibility and some standard social
influence strategies.