Attitudes and Social-Cognitive Theories Quiz Flashcards
Jane assume that all people in the drama club are creative and fun-loving because her new best friend is in the drama club. Her mistaken thinking is an example of
base rate fallacy
A person who deliberately parties and stays out all night before the Graduate Record Examination may be engaging in
self-handicapping
To overestimate the influence of a person’s character and underestimate the influence of the situation is to
commit the fundamental attribution error
In the Rosenthal study of academic “bloomers” the children who improved their performance over the year did so because of their teachers’
self-fulfilling prophecy
If you have been persuaded to change your attitude on a issue by listening to a speech given by a well-known rock musician, you’ve been influenced via ____________ to persuasion.
the peripheral route
Your idea of what a graduation party should include us called a
schema
Your professor asks you to do a boring clerical task for $6.00 an hour. Your friend is asked to do the same task but is paid $25.00 an hour. Your professor sense very concerned that you find the work to be interesting and fun. According to Festinger, when you are both asked what you thought of the work
you will say it was fun and your friend will say it was not.
People are less likely to come to the aid of an individual in trouble when there are many other people present. This principle is referred to as
the bystander effect
A first year college student is extra careful to dress in outfits that are considered fashionable by other in her dormitory and to abide by rules for quiet study time. Her behavior is likely the result of
normative social influence
You refuse to lend your friend $100.00 to buy concert tickets but you agree to his request to give him and his date a lift to the train station on the night of the concert. This is an example of ___________ technique.
door in the face
