Social Psychology & Personality unit test
A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.
Conformity and Asch
Big Five traits
Bystander effect
Groupthink
Reciprocal determinism
Cognitive dissonance
Obedience and Milgram
Mere exposure effect
Deindividuation
Foot-in-the-door
Social facilitation
Maslow's hierarchy
Short answer 1. Define or explain: Actor-observer bias
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: Just-world hypothesis
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: In-group bias and out-group homogeneity
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Locus of control
3 ptsFree response
4 ptsJordan is starting at a new school. On the first day, Jordan sees a group of students laughing near the entrance and concludes they are unfriendly. In class, Jordan performs poorly on a simple task while the teacher watches, but later completes a harder assignment easily when alone. When the teacher asks the class a question, Jordan believes the answer given by the group is wrong but agrees with it anyway.
Explain how the fundamental attribution error applies to Jordan's conclusion about the students.
Explain how social facilitation accounts for Jordan's performance in class.
Explain which type of social influence best accounts for Jordan agreeing with the group.
Explain how the self-serving bias might affect how Jordan explains the poor performance.