Ap Psychology Case 5.07

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When Jane was running during her track meet she saw and heard her family and friends cheering her on, even though she was tired she began to run faster. What psychological phenomenon is she experiencing?

A Social loafing
B Normative social influence
C Social impairment
D Social facilitation

2 Alex believed that all immigrants should be deported but his strong attitude towards deportation changed after meeting and listening to children who had lost family members due to being deported. Alex is experiencing the phenomena known as?

A Group think
B cognitive dissonance
C opponent processes
D Judgment

3 What is an attitude?

A Something that informs our behaviour
B Something that simplifies and categorise our experience of the world
C An
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Later that night, he was surprised he didn't resist their pressure to spray paint a police car. Bruce's experience best demonstrates the

A bystander effect
B fundamental attribution error
C foot-in-the-door phenomenon
D mere exposure effect

6 A doctor went to Africa for his first humanitarian trip and saw dozens of starving children lining up to receive medical treatment. He told his nurse, "Wow. These kids must have done something very evil in their previous lives to deserve this." The doctor's way of thinking is described by the

A just-world phenomenon
B fundamental attribution error
C phenomenon of ingroup bias
D mirror-image perception principle

7 Researchers believe their is a correlation between aggressive tendencies in animals and which of the following hormones?

A estrogen
B adrenaline
C noradrenaline
D testosterone

8 Mrs. Johnson will only buy popular brand names when she is grocery shopping. When I asked her why she only buys "Jif" or "Skippy" Peanut butter, she said, "I only see Jif and Skippy commercials." Mrs. Johnson's preference for familiar brand names illustrates the importance

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