Test your knowledge of fundamental concepts in social psychology. Includes; definitions, factors affecting psychological phenomena, and examples based on real experiments.
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What is Social Influence?
What is Social Facilitation?
What is Social Interference/Inhibition?
If you compared good and bad pool players' performances when alone vs. when observed, what social effect would you expect to act upon them in the second condition, and why?
What does Distraction Conflict Theory say about Social Facilitation and Social Interference?
What does Evaluation Apprehension Theory say about Social Facilitation and Social Interference?
What does Mere Presence Theory say about Social Facilitation and Interference?
Participants memorised nonsense syllables until they became a dominant response, then had to recite them in front of an audience that was either blindfolded (Mere Presence) or observing keenly (Evaluation Apprehension). Which group performed best?
What is Social Loafing?
Why do people Socially Loaf?
In general, are men or women more likely to Socially Loaf, and why?
In general, are people from Western or Eastern cultures more likely to Socially Loaf?
Are you more likely to Socially Loaf if you are in a group of friends or strangers, andy why?
What steps can you take to reduce Social Loafing?
What is Conformity?
Why do we Conform?
How is Conformity useful to society?
Factors increasing Conformity
When can we "safely" diverge from the group's influence?
What is the Bystander Effect?
What is the most significant reason for the Bystander Effect?
What factors affect our likelihood of helping in an emergency?
How to reduce the Bystander Effect?
What is Deindividuation?
If some participants wore masks and sat in the dark, whilst others wore name tags and sat in the light, and both groups were told the shock a confederate on a certain cue, for a period that the participants could choose, which group would give the longest shocks?
What factor needs to be increased to decrease the effect of Deindividuation?
If you commented on either the costume or real identity of trick-or-treating children, and told them they could only take one lolly, then left them alone, which children would be more likely to only take one piece?
What is Obedience?
In Milgram's infamous Obedience studies, what factors decreased the likelihood of participants delivering all the shocks up to 450v?
What factor in Milgram's Obedience studies made 92% of participants deliver all shocks up to 450v?
What is Attribution Theory?
What does Covariation Theory say about behaviour?
What do Consensus, Consistency, and Distinctiveness mean in the context of behaviour?
Which combination indicates likelihood of internal, external, or mixed causes:
1. Consensus low, Consistency high, Distinctiveness low
2. Consensus high, Consistency high, Distinctiveness high
3. Consensus low, Consistency high, Distinctiveness high
What is Fundamental Attribution Error?
What is Actor-Observer Bias?
Why does the Actor-Observer Bias occur?
What is a Stereotype?
What is the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy / Pygmalion Effect?
If participants in a study had to teach rats to run through a maze, and one group of participants was told they had super genius rats, and the other told they had dumb rats, which rats would run the maze better?
What is an Attitude?
What is Cognitive Dissonance, and when does it occur?
When do Attitudes guide our behaviour?
