Burger’s 2007 partial recreation of Milgram’s experiment showed a slight drop in obedience from Milgram’s results, but not the major decline in obedience that many had predicted in the years since the original Milgram studies were conducted.

Chartrand & Bargh (1999) had experimental confederates mimic (imitate) the mannerisms of some subjects but not others. They found:

Denise perceives her fellow New Yorkers as diverse in their beliefs and behaviors, but perceives all southerners as close-minded, religious bigots. ‘Southerners are all the same because that’s just the way they all are,’ says Denise. Her biased perception best characterizes which concept?

Eric does not know how to answer the cognitive dissonance essay question on his psychology test. He decides to write as many random facts as he can recall about attitudes instead of actually writing about cognitive dissonance theory, hoping the professor will not read the essay closely but will be sufficiently impressed by the length of the essay to give him a good score.  Eric is hoping to take advantage of the:

All of the following are conditions that makes social loafing less likely to occur EXCEPT:

Cacioppo & Petty used sensors placed at various points on the face to recorded facial muscle activity of subjects as the listened to a message with which they agreed or disagreed. The results indicated that listening to a(an) __________ message increases activity in the __________.

Which of the following finding from conformity research is FALSE?

Nathan asked John to tutor him in preparation for his calculus exam. John agreed to do so for a $15 fee. The night before the exam, Nathan arrived at John’s house for the tutoring session. Before they started, John (the tutor) increased the tutoring fee to $30. One might predict that Nathan is now more likely to agree to the $30 fee due to John’s use of the:

According to the Cognitive-Affective Personality System  

Rewards in operant conditioning is called