Chapter 15: Psychology in Our Social Lives
True or False?
Remember – try to go beyond just True or False. What do you know about the topic?
Questions
- Milgram’s (in)famous studies explored under what circumstances people were prepared to reward others.
- An intimate relationship is characterized by caring, warmth, social support and acceptance.
- Groupthink involves making better decisions than the members of the group would make on their own.
- People tend to perform better when they have an audience provided they are good at the task to start with.
- People are described as being interdependent if they rely on each other to meet their goals.
- The fundamental attribution error describes our tendency to assume that other people are more religious than we are.
- Prejudice refers to actions, while discrimination refers to beliefs.
- People are more likely to be altruistic if they are experiencing guilty feelings.
- People are more likely to be altruistic if they are in a good mood.
- Latané and Darley argued that the social situation is largely irrelevant in influencing whether someone will help another person.
Answers
- false
- true
- false
- true
- true
- false
- false
- true
- true
- false