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2 – What is the fundamental attribution error?
3 – According to the fundamental attribution error theory, people are more likely to blame __________ when
attributing another’s behavior, and _______________ when attributing their own behavior.
4 – You forgot your girlfriend’s/boyfriend’s birthday. Give an example of attribution for this behavior that is
external.
5 – Name one factor that will increase the likelihood that we will behave in ways that are consistent with our
attitudes.
6 – Contrary to our intuition, people are actually MORE likely to do you a big favor if they have already done a
smaller favor for you. What is this phenomenon called?
7 – John is an expert at shooting darts. When playing alone, he can hit the bullseye 3 out of every 5 tries. What
would you expect to happen to his performance if he had an audience?
8 – Joe and Sally both dissected frogs for biology class despite the fact that they believe it is wrong. Joe did it
because his teacher would fail him if he didn’t. Sally did it gain 2 points on the next test. Who is more likely to
say that the experience was valuable and why?
9 – Fraternities and sororities have difficult initiation procedures that can be very humiliating. However, members
often report a tremendous allegiance to the group. Why?
10 – Jeremy likes his little brother, but bullies him to impress his friends. If he continues this behavior, will he start
to like his brother more or less and why?
Jack – Alice and Mark were assigned to do a group project. They arranged to meet at Caribou Coffee to work on it
after school one day. Alice showed up late, rushed through the work carelessly, and left after only 15 minutes,
leaving Mark to do most of the project on his own. If Mark committed the fundamental attribution error, how
might he attribute her behavior?
Queen – Neither Jenny nor Josh like country music. Jenny was given a free ticket to a country music concert and
forced to go with her mother as a family outing. Josh went to the same concert because his friends were going
and he had nothing better to do. He had to pay $25 for his own ticket. At the end of the night, who is more
likely to report a greater enjoyment of country music—Jenny or Josh? Why?
King – What is the term describing the discomfort we feel when actions and attitudes are incongruent?
Ace – What is normative social influence?
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2 –Which would produce more cognitive dissonance—a student who loves animals is forced to dissect a cat in
order to pass biology or a student volunteers to debate an issue, taking the side he personally disagrees with.
3 – Name two factors that decrease the likelihood that someone will conform.
4 – Name two factors that increase the likelihood that someone will obey orders to harm someone else.
5 – Also known as the Hawthorne effect, this is improved performance in the presence of others.
5 – People don’t pull their hardest during tug-of-war. This is called ____________.
6 – Of social loafing and social facilitation – which is more likely to happen if individual responsibility within the
group is high?
7 – What is deindividuation?
8 – True or false – Conformity rates are higher in individualist cultures.
9 -- True or false – Social loafing is more common in individualist cultures.
10 – What is group polarization?
Jack – People at sports events often act unruly because they are both highly aroused. This is even more likely if they
are made to feel anonymous either by wearing facepaint or by the shear size of the crowd. What is this
phenomenon called?
Queen – Wallace and Marsha are both favor gun control laws. What affect, if any, will discussing the topic have on
their personal beliefs?
King – What percentage (within 5%) of “teachers” administered the entire sequence of shocks in Milgrams
obedience study?
Ace – Who makes more extreme decisions – individuals or groups?
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2 – The tendency to underestimate the impact of situational factors when attributing the behavior of others.
3 – internal factors (personality); external factors (the situation)
4 – (Any reason is which a situation was to blame for the mistake is acceptable. Examples – I was too busy trying to
study for exams, she never told me when her birthday was)
5 – 1) minimize outside influences, 2) being mindful of attitudes (write them in journal, declare them to others)
6 – foot-in-the-door phenomenon
7 – It would improve.
8 – Sally. Joe would not experience much cognitive dissonance because he knows that he was forced to behave in a
way incongruent with his beliefs. Because Sally’s penalty would have been much smaller, she cannot justify her
behavior as resulting from being forced. In order to minimize the dissonance she feels, she may change her
attitude about dissection
9 – Effort justification effect. Pledges cannot rationalize suffering humiliation in order to gain membership into a
mediocre group. Once they have suffered the humiliation, they cannot take back their actions. In order to
minimize the discomfort they feel about having been humiliated, they convince themselves that it was worth it
by idolizing the group.
10 – Less. Because of cognitive dissonance. His actions and thoughts are inconsistent which causes psychological
tension. In order to reduce the tension, he may change his thoughts to match his actions.
Jack – He would assume she was a bad person in some way (careless, brash, thoughtless, mean)
Queen – Josh. Effort justification effect. Jenny can rationalize going to the concert because she was paid. Josh
can’t rationalize his behavior that way, so he changes his attitude to fit his behavior.
King – cognitive dissonance
Ace – influence resulting from one’s desire to gain approval from others.
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2 –a student volunteers to debate an issue, taking the side he personally disagrees with.
3 – 1) feeling secure, 2) other dissenters, 3) group has less than 3 other people 4) one does not admires group’s
status, 5) one has made a prior commitment to a response, 6) live in a culture that encourages individuality
4 – 1) person giving orders is near by, 2) person giving orders is perceived as a legitimate authority, 3) victim is at a
distance, 4) there are no role models for defiance.
5 – social facilitation
5 – social loafing
6 – social facilitation
7 – loss of self-awareness and restraint in group situations; occurs when arousal is high and sense of responsibility is
low
8 – False.
9 -- True
10 – the tendency for a like-minded group to become more extreme in their beliefs following discussion.
Jack – deindividuation
Queen – they will become more extreme in their support of gun control laws
King – 63%
Ace – groups