Applied Social Psychology Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Applied Social Psychology examines how principles and theories of social psychology are utilized to address real-world issues and improve individual and collective well-being. This course explores topics such as attitude change, persuasion, prejudice reduction, health promotion, organizational behavior, and environmental sustainability, focusing on how psychological research informs the development of interventions and policies. Students will engage in critical analysis of case studies and empirical research, learning how to design and evaluate effective solutions for societal challenges through the application of social psychological knowledge.
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Social Psychology 7th Australia Edition by Graham M. Vaughan
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Chapter 1: Introducing Social Psychology
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Q1) Inspired by the early behaviourist John Watson,Floyd Allport argued that social psychology would only flourish if
A) the discipline became less reductionist
B) individual level analyses were emphasised
C) the discipline became an experimental science
D) new methods were adopted by social psychologists
Answer: C
Q2) Justin is a trained social psychologist whereas Bill majored in graphic arts.In their respective career paths,we would expect it is more likely that
A) Bill studies people in groups
B) Bill is interested in numerical trends
C) Justin uses the scientific method
D) Justin is interested in monkeys
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Social Cognition and Social Thinking
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Q1) Reliance on person schemas,often unconsciously activated,to make judgements is referred to as
A) discrimination
B) clinical judgement
C) categorising
D) subliminal assessment
Answer: B
Q2) Which model of social cognition noted the powerful effect that first impressions have on the way we judge people?
A) The 'first come, first served' model
B) Asch's configural model
C) Bem's self-perception model
D) The recency effect model
Answer: B
Q3) People use schemas to process information.Schemas function to
A) interpret new information
B) encode old information
C) fill in gaps in what we know
D) all of the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Attribution and Social Explanation
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Q1) Theories of attribution
A) are based on criminal psychology
B) cannot be falsified
C) are theories of causal inference
D) are forms of cognitive heuristics
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a major theory of attribution?
A) Bem's theory of self-perception
B) Rogers' protection motivation theory
C) Heider's theory of naïve psychology
D) Schachter's theory of emotional lability
Answer: B
Q3) Intergroup attributions include attributions for performance that are consistent with
A) sex stereotypes only
B) both sex and racial stereotypes
C) racial stereotypes only
D) neither sex nor racial stereotypes
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Self and Identity
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Q1) The concepts of self and identity
A) allow humans to predict what others think
B) allow humans to predict what others do
C) provide humans with guidelines about how they should behave
D) all of the above
Q2) With reference to self-concept,which of the following is NOT correct? People
A) with a highly fragmented self, e.g., through amnesia, can have trouble in functioning effectively
B) need a degree of self-conceptual integration and coherence
C) use a variety of strategies to construct a coherent sense of self
D) none of the above is incorrect
Q3) In Fazio,Effrein and Falender's (1981)study,researchers asked loaded questions of people about themselves.They found that participants
A) make invalid self-descriptions
B) answer questions differently depending on the time of day
C) describe themselves differently in different situations
D) cover up with questions of this type
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Chapter 5: Attitudes
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Q1) A value
A) cannot guide action about what a person should really do
B) is at a less abstract level than an attitude
C) develops before an attitude
D) has characteristics that are opposite to all of the above
Q2) In the theory of reasoned action,a subjective norm is
A) a product of our beliefs about the target behaviour and how these beliefs are evaluated
B) an internal declaration to act
C) the action performed
D) a product of what we think others believe
Q3) Himmelfarb and Eagly's (1974)definition of an attitude embraced the view of the three-component model.Their definition also emphasised that attitudes are
A) relatively permanent
B) limited to socially significant events or objects
C) generalisable
D) all of the above
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Chapter 6: Persuasion and Attitude Change
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Q1) Myrtle Money,the Minister of Student Affairs,is on campus.She is about to give a public speech to students about the need for higher student fees.She did not get where she is today without being quite cunning,and she knows that an effective tactic for an intelligent audience is to
A) deal with student views as well as government views on the issue
B) present only the views of the government on the issue
C) use a series of slogans and few simple ideas as the basis for her talk
D) be ready to stomp on any wise guys in the audience
Q2) Consider a simple promotional message such as 'Take in a great view - Bungee Jump!' According to Chaiken and Eagly (1983),the most effective medium to spread it is A) radio
B) TV
C) print
D) all media are equally effective
Q3) The Quit anti-smoking campaign showed that smokers
A) are usually well informed about illnesses related to their habit
B) don't believe that smoking can cause lung cancer, emphysema and heart disease
C) get furious when they are not allowed to smoke in public places
D) are not interested in giving up their habit
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Chapter 7: Social Influence
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Q1) According to Wilder (1977),who from the following will be more influential?
A) A group of five friends who turned up to the experiment together
B) The University of Sydney indoor soccer team of 4 players
C) Three other independent participants who appear to have the same opinion
D) None of the above
Q2) In considering the concepts of leadership and power,research now indicates that A) leaders are required to exercise power over followers
B) although both concepts involve social influence, they can still be differentiated C) leadership always involves informational power
D) leadership always involves expert power
Q3) Some forms of social influence bring about a surface change in behaviour but no internal change in attitudes.This is referred to as
A) obedience
B) conformity
C) compliance
D) conversion
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Chapter 8: People in Groups
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Q1) The ________ view claims that people in groups are influenced by unique social processes.In contrast,the ________ view maintains that people in groups act similarly as when they are in pairs,or even alone.
A) category; exemplar
B) collectivist; individualist
C) social; individualist
D) social; clinical
Q2) The term 'entitativity' refers to
A) the effect of the presence of others on group members
B) the relationship between distinct groups
C) a measure of the extent to which a group appears as coherent or distinct
D) a group dimension
Q3) The division of a group into different roles that often differ with respect to status and prestige is referred to as
A) ethnomethodology
B) group structure
C) a norm
D) stereotypical behaviour
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Chapter 9: Leadership and Decision Making
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Q1) According to Hollander (1958),leaders have to accumulate a credit rating before being able to legitimately exert influence over the group and deviate from existing norms.The underlying concept is
A) idiosyncrasy credit
B) leadership influence
C) leader-member exchange
D) legitimate power
Q2) According to Lippitt and White (1943),a leader who is friendly,group-centred and play-oriented,albeit at the expense of group productivity,can be attributed which kind of leadership style?
A) Authoritative
B) Laissez-faire
C) Democratic
D) Autocratic
Q3) Alison is a relationship-oriented leader.It is important to her that
A) employees can approach her for a counselling session
B) in her absence, her employees work reliably and productively
C) set goals are achieved
D) her employees get on well with each other and rate highly in job satisfaction
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Chapter 10: Prejudice and Discrimination
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Q1) Lisa is an excellent student who always studies hard and has a good grasp of the concepts taught during her mathematics classes.However,Lisa is also aware that there is a stereotype associated with females being poor at mathematics.As such,she always gets very nervous whenever she is asked to answer a question in class.This is an example of
A) sexism
B) stereotype threat
C) female students typically being more socially anxious than males
D) all of the above
Q2) Studies have revealed that prejudice is more common in
A) collective societies
B) there is no such pattern
C) egalitarian societies
D) majority groups
Q3) A shared and simplified image of members of a group is referred to as
A) a stereotype
B) a schema
C) a prototype
D) prejudice
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Chapter 11: Intergroup Behaviour
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Q1) When a conflict between groups is referred to a neutral third party for resolution and the imposition of a mutually binding settlement,the process is called
A) conciliation
B) mediation
C) arbitration
D) bargaining
Q2) The social change belief system refers to
A) the natural progression from one social system to another through time
B) individuals' inherent belief that social groups have what they deserve
C) individuals dissociating themselves from their group to join another group
D) the belief that social boundaries between groups are impermeable
Q3) Recognition of people as members of distinct social groups reflects a context of
A) culture contact
B) great suspicion
C) intergroup behaviour
D) realistic conflict
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Chapter 12: Aggression
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Q1) 'I think I will be a peaceful person if I learn to box and vent my frustrations in the boxing ring.' This belief is an example of the ________ hypothesis at work.
A) frustration-aggression
B) cathartic
C) fundamental attribution
D) contact
Q2) It is possible that some acts of aggression arise from: (a)a learned aggressive behaviour,(b)a person's arousal from an earlier,unrelated source,and (c)a later interpretation of the cause of the arousal state such that an aggressive response seems appropriate.A model that argues this way is the
A) vicarious learning model
B) aptly named three-component model
C) excitation-transfer model
D) frustration-aggression model
Q3) Agreement among people about what constitutes aggression is
A) to an extent an outcome of sociocultural factors
B) limited to cases involving serious physical assault
C) mostly illusory, because they have different things in mind
D) laid down in the law
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Chapter 13: Prosocial Behaviour
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Q1) The fact that prosocial behaviour is prescribed,learned and expected makes it
A) normative
B) essential
C) a social obligation
D) a script
Q2) Prosocial behaviour
A) is a set of acts common to all cultures
B) excludes the act of harming anyone
C) is what marks human reactions from animal reactions
D) is coloured by the norms of a society
Q3) There is a paradox: the likelihood of helping someone in distress decreases as the number of potential helpers increases.This can be accounted for to some extent by A) lack of empathy
B) independence in Western cultures
C) social loafing
D) diffusion of responsibility
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Chapter 14: Attraction and Close Relationships
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a factor that,according to Adam and Jones (1997),contributes to an ongoing relationship?
A) Personal dedication
B) Moral commitment
C) Constraint commitment
D) Family obligation
Q2) 'Falling in love' can be triggered by such factors as proximity,similarity and reciprocal liking.Ironically
A) this makes it hard to distinguish from 'falling in friendship'
B) this applies only to very old people
C) men are the only ones to fall this way
D) dogs behave in much the same manner
Q3) Byrd (1938)lived alone in Antarctica for six months.He reported that he
A) considered opening a tour business there
B) experienced hallucinations
C) made friends with a penguin colony
D) started painting snow scenes
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Chapter 15: Language and Communication
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Q1) A minority group's ethnolinguistic vitality is high when
A) the language is well-represented in the schools located where the immigrants live B) the language is represented internationally
C) there are many language users still in their homeland
D) all of the above
Q2) Speech accommodation theory has recently been extended such that
A) it recognises that convergence and divergence can occur in the form of both verbal and non-verbal behaviour
B) it recognises that convergence and divergence cannot occur simultaneously
C) it recognises that convergence and divergence only occur in the form of verbal behaviour
D) it recognises that convergence and divergence occur cross-culturally
Q3) We use our faces to express our emotions and we use display rules to
A) express our thoughts
B) communicate with others
C) hide our emotions
D) none of the above
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Chapter 16: Culture
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Q1) Where would you be LEAST likely to encounter interdependent kinds of people?
A) Canada
B) Singapore
C) Thailand
D) Taiwan
Q2) A psychology that assumes that culture can be understood only from within its own perspective is called
A) cultural psychology
B) authentic psychology
C) indigenous psychology
D) intercultural psychology
Q3) Cross-cultural psychology aims to determine
A) whether Western psychological theories are valid in other cultures
B) whether certain psychological constructs are culture-specific
C) ways in which psychology can evolve so that it has universal relevance
D) all of the above
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