Chapter 15: Psychology in Our Social Lives
Fill in the Blank(s)
Questions
- The social norm that condones and even encourages responding to insults with aggression is known as the ________ ________ ________.
- We may conform because we want to be liked by others, this is known as ________ conformity.
- ________ involves attributing personality characteristics to people on the basis of their physical appearance or membership of a social group.
- The implicit association test aims to measure ________ stereotyping.
- Our tendency to underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate the role of personal factors when we try to explain other people’s behaviour is known as the ________________ ________.
- ________ ________ is the tendency to perform tasks more poorly when other people are present.
- Milgram’s (in)famous studies focused on ________.
- The study of ________ ________ investigates what makes people like, and even love, each other.
- On average, viewing violent media ________ aggression.
- ________ ________ refers to the discomfort we experience when we choose to behave in ways that conflict with our beliefs or attitudes.
Answers
- culture of honour
- normative
- stereotyping
- unconscious
- fundamental attribution error …… correspondence bias is also an acceptable answer.
- social inhibition
- obedience
- interpersonal attraction
- increases
- cognitive dissonance