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Describe Festinger and colleagues study on proximity. (A) Describe who the participants were and how it was conducted (method). (B) What were the results? (in terms of where a participants three closest friends resided).

According to social exchange theory, we will help when:

The negative-state relief model is a(n) ________ theory.

In class, we discussed Festinger’s study of college students in an apartment complex. When asked later to name their three closest friends, results showed that people who lived closer to each other were more likely to say they were close friends. Which of the following is NOT an explanation for this?

Give me the elevator pitch version (short description with major highlights) of your Social Psychology and Christianity Project. What social psychology concepts did you like to Christianity and how?

When trying to decide whether or not to help we have to decide if we actually can help. Sometimes we determine we aren’t qualified to help due to a _______________  of ______________________. _______ of _______ .

Describe the Good Samaritan Study (Darley & Batson, 1973). (A) Which of the 5 steps to helping was it examining? (B) How was the study conducted (method)? (C) What were the results (under what circumstances did helping occur)?

Yes! You scored a date with the person of your dreams and decide to use what you learned in your social psychology class to win them over. Based on what you know about misattribution of arousal, which of the following options would NOT be a good date idea?

Based on what we learned in class, which of the following pictures will people rate as more attractive?

Sometimes when we are deciding whether or not to help someone, we think about the potential costs and benefits of helping and not helping. Which of the following theories best describes this behavior, and is this an egoistic or an altruistic theory?