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PSYC 201 Final Study GuideChapter 1-8: Refer to the Midterm Study GuideChapter 9: Social Influence1. What are the differences between conformity, compliance, and obedience? 2. How does mimicry help to prepare people for social interaction? 3. What are the reasons for automatic mimicry? What kinds of people are more likely to automatically mimic others? 4. What is informational social influence? What is the main underlying motivation for it (what is it good for)?5. What is normative social influence? What is the main underlying motivation for it (what is it good for)? 6. Which type of social influence causes public compliance? Which type of social influence causes private acceptance? How does each process work?7. What are the factors that contribute to conformity? Why does each factor do so?8. Is there a point when the effect of group size levels off?9. In Milgram’s obedience studies, did most participants call attention to the learner’s suffering? Did they say they did not actually want to continue? Why is this important?10. According to Milgram’s obedience studies, what factors can decrease obedience?11. How techniques to members of minority groups use to change the majority? How is it different than other kinds of influence?12. What are the reason based approaches to compliance and how are they similar/different? Give an example of each.13. What is the effect of mood on compliance? 14. What are the explanations for why negative mood changes compliance?15. What are the norm-based approaches to compliance? How can each be best applied to positive and negative behaviors?16. How is the Milgram study similar to the “foot-in-the-door” technique? 17. In Milgram’s replications, what resulted in people disobeying? What mattered most?18. Would Milgram’s experiment likely replicate today?Chapter 10: Relationships1. Why are relationships important?2. What are communal and exchange relationships? What are the theories that underlie these ways of relating to others? How does each relate to social exchange theory, comparison levels, comparison level for alternatives, and equity? 3. What are two theoretical dimensions of attachment? 4. What are the three main attachment styles? How do people with each style act in relationships?5. How stable are attachment styles?6. What did Harry Harlow find in his attachment studies using rhesus monkeys? 7. What is proximity? What are the theories behind how it influences attraction?8. Why is functional distance important? How is it different from physical distance? How does it influence attraction? 9. How does similarity influence attraction? Are engaged couples more similar than random pairings?10. What does research suggest about complementarity and the notion that “opposites attract?”11. What are the two main facial features that can indicate health and reproductive fitness?12. How does halo effect appear in physical attractiveness? 13. How might self-fulfilling prophecies influence how we perceive other people’s personalities and how attracted we are to each other?14. Is physical attraction universal? Elaborate. 15. How does evolution relate to physical attractiveness? Be sure to mention reproductive fitness, bilateral symmetry, and facial blemishes. 16. Are there gender differences in mate preferences (what people find attractive in potential mating partners)? What are evolutionary and sociocultural accounts for gender differences in mate preferences? 17. What are the types of “love” studied by social psychologists? 18. What does Aron et al.’s research on the self and others suggest about romantic relationships?19. What is the investment model of commitment? What are the three determinants of commitment?20. What factors predict marital satisfaction?21. What factors predict marital dissatisfaction?22. What are three ways individuals can cultivate stronger romantic bonds?Chapter 11: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination1. What is the difference between stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination? Give examples of each. 2. What is the main difference between traditional racism/sexism and modern racism/sexism?3. Under what situational variables or factors is modern racism/sexism more likely to come out or be expressed?4. What is benevolent racism and sexism? Why is this kind of bias still harmful?5. What problems do researchers face in studying modern racism? What are 2 ways we resolve these methodological issues? How are these methods actually different?6. What is realistic group conflict theory? What does it say about why intergroup bias arises? 7. What was the Robbers Cave Study? What does it say is the best way to reduce intergroup conflict?8. What is the minimal groups paradigm and how does it relate to intergroup bias?9. What is the relationship between self-esteem and intergroup bias?10. According to the cognitive perspective, what is the benefit of stereotyping? Why might it be harmful?11. What is the outgroup homogeneity effect? What are some everyday examples of the outgroup homogeneity effect? 12. What do distinctiveness and illusory correlations have to do with profiling and discrimination?13. What is the police officer’s dilemma? What are some of the unsettling implications of the cognitive perspective even for non-police members? What’s the silver lining (if any) to this research?14. What are some of the ways people preserve their stereotypes of others?15. What is attributional ambiguity? How does it affect the experience of daily life of members of culturally stigmatized groups? How does it affect the way in which members of culturally stigmatized groups internalize external feedback directed at them? 16. What is stereotype threat? How does it impact performance? What are some examples of situations that might elicit stereotype threat? What are some ways in which stereotype threat could be reduced/prevented in standardized testing situations?17. How do self-fulfilling prophecies influence intergroup bias?18. What are psychological costs of concealing identities?Chapter 12: Groups1. What is social facilitation? What is the role of arousal in social facilitation? When will the presence of others help performance? When will it hurt performance? (refer to Robert Zajonc’s model) 2. What are the theories behind why social facilitation happens?3. What is social loafing? What does it say about individual performance within groups? 4. What is groupthink? What conditions are likely to lead to groupthink? What are


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