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Suppose you get coffee every day from the same barista at the coffee shop near your apartment. People are usually nice to you, but the barista is always a little rude to you. You also notice that the barista is also rude to other customers. According to Kelley’s covariation theory of attribution, to what do you attribute the barista’s rudeness to you?

A study examining the association between people’s level of extraversion and the number of friends they have on Facebook is an example of a(n) ___________.

Which of the following people’s statements is an example of the fundamental attribution error?

Which of the following is the best summary of research on automatic thinking?

Which of the following is TRUE of longitudinal designs?

Which of the following people is engaging in upward social comparison?

According to lecture, which of the following is least true of how social psychologists work as scientists?

According to lecture on the parallels between the inhumane treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and in the Stanford Prison Experiment, which of the following statements is true?

Suppose a study found that groups of people randomly assigned to work in a dimly lit room were less cooperative than those in a room with normal lighting. This would be an example of _________ research.

According to lecture, members of sororities recruited by Crandall (1988) tended to adopt disordered eating behaviors (e.g., bingeing and purging, using laxatives) used by their sorority sisters. Members provided tips on how to maintain weight, and which strategies were preferable to and approved by others. In short, sorority members wielded both _______ influence and _______ influence, respectively.