AP Psychology
Social Psych
Spring 2015
Reading Guide – SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
8-10% of the AP Test
AP Book: Chapter 16, pgs.
672-721
Baron’s Book: Chapter 14,
pgs. 273-290
1.) What connections are social psychologists responsible for researching? And how do they carry this out?
2.) How does the attribution theory explain human behavior?
3.) Explain the fundamental attribution error. Provide an example of a time when people have committed it.
4.) Provide two examples to explain how attitude affects actions
5.) Complete the following chart to explain how people respond to evidence and opinions
How do people develop an attitude
about something?
Example(s)
Central Route Persuasion
Peripheral Route
6.) How does the foot-in-the-door phenomenon affect someone’s attitude?
7.) Provide an example of how this phenomenon can serve a positive purpose
8.) Explain how Philip Zambardo’s famous prison experiment proved that role-playing influences one’s attitude
9.) How can people effectively rid themselves about cognitive dissonance?
10.) How does the chameleon effect play a role in conformity?
11.) Explain how the chameleon effect plays a role during violent or dangerous events
12.) Complete the following chart to describe experiments related to conformity
What was the procedure of the
What did the experiment prove
Key terms related to this
experiment?
about social influence?
Solomon Asch’s line
experiment
Robert Baron’s
lineup experiment
experiment
Conformity:
Normative Social Influence:
Informational Social
Influence:
Stanley Milgram’s
obedience study
Obedience:
13.) List at least three lessons that psychologists have learned from conformity experiments
14.) How does social facilitation relate to large groups of people?
15.) Provide two examples of behavior that are enhanced when other people are present
16.) What is the definition of social loafing?
17.) Explain how group polarization relates to group interaction
18.) Provide an example of group polarization
19.) Use some historical examples to explain how groupthink functions
20.) How was Mahatma Gandhi a minority influence?
21.) Complete the following chart to explain social relations
What is it?
Prejudice
Example from society/AP book
Stereotype
Discrimination
22.) Provide some examples of cases of the “ingroup” and “outgroup”
23.) What does the scapegoat theory have to go with prejudice?
24.) When we categorize people and groups, what role does the other-race effect play?
25.) Explain the just-world phenomenon and provide an example of it
26.) Complete the following chart to explain the origins of aggression
Explanation
Example(s)
Genetic influences on aggression
Neural influences on aggression
Biochemical influences on aggression
Social and Cultural influences on
aggression
27.) Provide an example of the frustration-aggression principle in society
28.) Explain why it is so difficult to pin down a true cause for aggression
29.) What role do violent video games and films play in teaching and/or releasing aggression?
30.) Complete the following chart to explain why we are attracted to certain people
What role does it play in attraction?
Example from society/AP Book
Proximity
Physical Attractiveness
Similarity
31.) What is passionate love (in comparison to a general attraction)?
32.) Describe what companionate love is and how equity plays a role in creating a good relationship
33.) Complete the following chart to explain how altruism plays a role in each scenario or example
How does it influence our altruistic behavior?
Example(s)
Bystander Effect
Social Exchange Theory
Reciprocity Norm
Social-Responsibility Norm
34.) What is a social trap and how does it promote conflicts/violence?
35.) Provide an example of mirror-image perceptions
36.) What are four ways that people groups can remove feelings of aggression and prejudice to create peace?
37.) What does the strategy known as GRIT promote?