Social Psychology
Which of the following explains why a person would be more likely to help a person who had fainted in a small local store than in a large shopping mall?
Bystander effect
Self-serving bias
Prejudice
Social loafing
What term describes the tendency for a person's belief in personal responsibility to become diffused when they are part of a crowd?
Conformity
Deindividuation
Diffusion of responsibility
Social loafing
Which statement most accurately defines deindividuation?
Deindividuation refers to how an individual's identity gets accentuated within a group.
Deindividuation involves maintaining one's individuality while being part of a larger group or society.
Deindividuation is losing self-awareness and restraint in groups situations stimulating anonymity.
Deindividuation is when a person's behaviour does not conform to group norms.
Which of the following best describes how group polarization enhances group decision-making?
It reinforces the group's prevailing attitudes by pushing group members towards an extreme stance.
It prevents conflict within a group by promoting consensus and conformity.
It promotes democratic decision-making by ensuring all voices are heard.
It increases diversity of thought by encouraging dissimilar viewpoints.
Which concept explains an individual's increased likelihood of agreeing to a larger request after first agreeing to a small one?
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Social loafing
Cognitive dissonance
Bystander effect
What potential experiment could effectively study the influence of group polarization on decision-making in a jury?
Monitoring brain activity of jurors during a real trial.
Studying previous jury decisions based solely on written transcripts.
Asking individual jurors about their perception of group influences after a trial is over.
Conducting a mock trial where jurors deliberate collectively, and individually, then comparing their verdicts.
What is conformity in terms of social psychology?
Ignoring other people’s behaviors or expectations entirely and acting independently at all times.
Changing one's own behavior to match that of other people's expectations or norms.
Expressing unique behaviors solely to attract attention from the group.
Consistently maintaining one's own opinions despite social pressure to change them.

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How could a psychologist effectively intervene with a client demonstrating severe symptoms of groupthink in their workplace?
Directly confronting the group about its unhealthy dynamics without any preparation or training.
Ignoring the problem as long as no immediate harm is present since groupthink is common in many workplaces.
Suggesting that the client quit their job immediately to avoid further damage.
Training on critical thinking skills, encouraging open dialogue and dissent within teams.
Which perspective would suggest that abnormal behaviors are learned through modeling and reinforcement, implying that they could be unlearned through similar processes?
Biological perspective
Psychodynamic perspective
Cognitive perspective
Behavioral perspective
Who proposed that individuals adjust their behavior to align with the group norms in his conformity experiments?
Philip Zimbardo
Stanley Milgram
Solomon Asch
John Watson