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.
Foot-in-the-door
Deindividuation
Just-world hypothesis
Self-serving bias
Bystander effect
Mere exposure effect
Obedience and Milgram
Freud's structural model
Defense mechanisms
Locus of control
Reciprocal determinism
Group polarization
Short answer 1. Define or explain: Fundamental attribution error
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: Maslow's hierarchy
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: Conformity and Asch
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Social facilitation
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.