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According to research discussed in class and in your textbook, which of the following is NOT one of the ways to reduce prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination from a goal-based perspective?

In a study conducted by White & Lippitt (1960), children were instructed to adopt one of two leadership styles during a group activity. The results suggested that children with an autocratic group leadership performed better when the leader was present, but children with democratic group leadership performed better when the leader was absent. How did the researchers interpret these results?

Jaimie is not confident in her parallel parking skills and rarely practices parallel parking. When she has a friend in the car with her, Jaimie notices that her parallel parking skills are worse than when she is alone. This is an example of…

Which of the following is a characteristic of those who want to lead, as discussed in class and in your textbook?

Jerome asks his dad for $40 so he can go see a movie with some friends. His dad immediately says no. Jerome then asks his dad for $20 to see the movie, and his dad agrees. Which of the following techniques did Jerome use to get the money from his dad?

In class, we discussed three major goals of romantic relationships. Which of the following is NOT one of those major goals of romantic relationships?

Imagine that you are in a standoff with your roommate over who should do the dishes because you think you do the dishes most of the time, and he thinks he does the dishes most of the time. Your strategy was to originally cooperate and do the dishes this time, and then copy whatever your roommate did – if they did the dishes the second day, then you would do them the third day, but if they didn’t do the dishes the second day, then neither would you. This strategy sounds most like which of the following negotiation strategies discussed in class and in the textbook?

Imagine that you are interested in verbal aggression between groups. To study this, you go to a professional football game and count the number of times that fans supporting opposite teams argue with one another. What kind of method are you using in this study?

Cialdini and colleagues (1976) conducted a study in which they counted the number of people on campus who wore school-related clothing the day after the school’s football team played a game. The researchers found that, after the team won a game, more students were wearing school related clothing than when the team lost. Their interpretation of these results was that:_________.

In a study by Freedman and Fraser (1966), two groups of women were asked how likely they would be to let a group of men into their home to count the number of cleaning products they had. One group only heard the request from the researchers, whereas the other group was first contacted and asked to do a smaller task (8 question survey about household soaps) before hearing the researchers’ request. The use of the small request first is an example of what compliance technique?