1. Which statement is accurate in describingconformity?

• Obedience to social norms increases when an authorityfigure is missing.

• Obedience to social norms remains stable when an authorityfigure is present.

• Obedience to social norms remains stable when an authorityfigure is missing.

• Obedience to social norms increases when an authorityfigure is present.

2. Which of the following is true about the Stanford Prisonstudy?

there were no clear measurements of the dependent variable

all of the college men participating in the study came into thestudy with some psychological condition

there was a control group in the study

there were no clear measurements of the independent variable

3. An African American person is denied a job because the ownerof a business fears white customers will not buy from an AfricanAmerican salesperson. This hiring decision is an example of_______.

stereotyping

a heuristic

discrimination

prejudice

4. You and a friend are watching a ballgame. The batter swingsmisses. You believe this is because the sun is setting and probablycast a glare in his eyes. Your friend believes this is because thebatter lacks talent. You made a(n) _____ attribution and yourfriend made a(n) _____ attribution.

external; internal

personal; circumstantial

circumstantial; personal

internal; external

5. _____ is a learned, unjustified, negative attitude towardmembers of a group.

Stereotyping

Cognitive biasing

Prejudice

Discrimination

6. How we think about others and ourselves is called social________.

intelligence

attribution

influence

cognition

7. The desire to maintain self-esteem and a good public imageare two motivations for the use of _____.

the saliency bias

an internal locus of control

the fundamental attribution error

the self-serving bias

8. How many people in the control group of Asch’s study chosethe correct line?

close to 100%

roughly 50%

almost none of them chose correctly

about 25%

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