Chapter 12 - Social Psychology

Question 1

Prejudice vs. discrimination

Answer 1

a feeling vs. an action

Question 2

Deindividuation

Answer 2

loss of sense of personal identity as a result of identifying with a group

Question 3

social identity

Answer 3

tendency to join with others to construct a group identity

Question 4

Attitude is

Answer 4

evaluation of person, idea or object

Question 5

Affective component of attitude

Answer 5

how you feel about something/someone

Question 6

cognitive component of attitude

Answer 6

how you think about something/someone

Question 7

behavioral component of attitude

Answer 7

how you act toward something/someone

Question 8

Cognitive dissonance

Answer 8

discomfort from holding two or more inconsistent attitudes, behaviors or cognitions

Question 9

Influences on conformity

Answer 9

-size of the majority
-presence of another dissenter
-public or private aspect of the responses

Question 10

Stanford prison experiment conducted by

Answer 10

Philip Zimbardo

Question 11

Asch effect

Answer 11

influence of the group majority on an individual’s judgment

Question 12

Groupthink

Answer 12

modification of the opinions of members of a group to align with what they believe is the consensus

Question 13

script

Answer 13

a person’s knowledge of how to act in a certain setting (assuming one’s role)

Question 14

how many volunteers for prison experiment

Answer 14

24 college students

Question 15

Stanley Milgram obedience study staged an experiment to figure out if ___

Answer 15

ordinary citizens would inflict pain on other citizens simply to conform to authority

Question 16

self-serving bias is?

Answer 16

attributing successes to internal factors and failures to external factors

Question 17

just-world hypothesis

Answer 17

people get what’s coming to them