Psych exam 2

5 Written Questions

1. co-participants working individually on a noncompetitive activity
2. leadership that organizes work, sets standards, and focuses on goals
3. the theory that prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources
4. occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues such as the speaker's attractiveness
5. the tendency of people to believe that the world is just and therefore people are getting what the deserve

5 Matching Questions

1. cohesiveness
2. social dominance orientation
3. stereotype threat
4. social leadership
5. autokinetic phenomenon

1. a a disruptive concern, when facing a negative stereotype, that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
2. b a motivation to have one's group dominate other social groups
3. c leadership that builds teamwork, mediates conflict, and offers support
4. d the extent to which members of a group are bound together, such as by attraction for one another
5. e the apparent movement of a stationary point of light in the dark

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. a personality that is predisposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those lower in status
   1. authoritarian personality
   2. social loafing
   3. autokinetic phenomenon
   4. social identity
2. the tendency for people to exert less effort when they pool their efforts toward a common goal than when they are individually responsible
   1. social facilitation
   2. social leadership
   3. co-actors
   4. social loafing
3. conformity that involves publicly acting in accord with an implied or explicit request while privately disagreeing
   1. prejudice
   2. compliance
   3. co-actors
   4. obedience
4. a false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling, or how they are responding
   1. normative influence
   2. autokinetic phenomenon
   3. reactance
   4. pluralistic ignorance
5. evaluating one's opinions and abilities by comparing oneself with others
   1. social comparison
   2. social identity
   3. social facilitation
   4. social leadership

5 True/False Questions

1. ethnocentric → believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group and having disdain for all other groups

   True        False

2. primacy effect → a motive to protect or restore one's sense of freedom

   True        False

3. need for cognition → the motivation to think and analyze

   True        False

4. leadership → the process by which certain group members motivate and guide the group

   True        False

5. sleeper effect → information presented last sometimes has the most influence, only after a period of time has passed between the first and second message

   True        False