Chapter 12 Textbook Review Questions

As a field, social psychology focuses on ________ in predicting human behavior.

Making internal attributions for your successes and making external attributions for your failures is an example of ________.

Collectivistic cultures are to ________ as individualistic cultures are to ________.

According to the actor-observer bias, we have more information about ________.

A(n) ________ is a set of group expectations for appropriate thoughts and behaviors of its members.

On his first day of soccer practice, Jose suits up in a t-shirt, shorts, and cleats and runs out to the field to join his teammates. Jose’s behavior is reflective of ________.

When it comes to buying clothes, teenagers often follow social norms; this is likely motivated by ________.

In the Stanford prison experiment, even the lead researcher succumbed to his role as a prison supervisor. This is an example of the power of ________ influencing behavior.

Attitudes describe our ________ of people, objects, and ideas.

Cognitive dissonance causes discomfort because it disrupts our sense of ________.

In order for the central route to persuasion to be effective, the audience must be ________ and ________.

Examples of cues used in peripheral route persuasion include all of the following except ________.

In the Asch experiment, participants conformed due to ________ social influence.

Under what conditions will informational social influence be more likely?

Social loafing occurs when ________.