Question: The Stanford prison study illustrates that people:

Answer: behave in accord with their roles in a situation

Question: Human beings have evolved as social animals who live in groups, in part because:

Answer: groups provide safety from competing groups and predators

Question: The tendency to overemphasize personality and underestimate the situation is referred to as:

Answer: fundamental attribution error

Question: Behaving in a way that confirms stereotypes is referred to as:

Answer: self-fulfilling prophecy

Question: An active and conscious effort to change an attitude through transmission of a message is referred to as:

Answer: persuasion

Question: According to the elaboration likelihood model, the two routes that persuasion may take are:

Answer: central and peripheral

Question: The looting that sometimes occurs after a disaster is an example of

Answer: deindividuation

Question: In the _____, people will be more likely to agree with a small request after they have refused a large request.

Answer: door-in-the-face technique

Question: Stanley Milgram’s experiment illustrated the phenomenon of:

Answer: obedience

Question: The main conclusion of Milgram’s studies is that:

Answer: ordinary people will do terrible things if ordered by an authority