Applied Social Psychology
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Applied Social Psychology explores how theories, principles, and research methods from social psychology are used to address practical issues and solve real-world problems in various settings such as workplaces, schools, health care, and communities. The course examines topics like attitude change, persuasion, group dynamics, prejudice, interpersonal relationships, and social influence, with an emphasis on designing and evaluating interventions to improve individual and collective well-being. Through case studies and hands-on projects, students learn to critically assess social issues and implement evidence-based solutions in diverse social contexts.
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Social Psychology 6th Canadian Edition by Aronson
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Social Psychology
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Q1) What does social psychology have in common with personality psychology and sociology? How does social psychology differ from personality psychology and sociology?
Answer: All three disciplines study behaviour.Personality psychologists focus on individual differences,whereas sociologists focus on social and economic forces as the foundation for human behaviour.Social psychologists focus on the individual in a social environment.
Q2) Sometimes when we encounter behaviour that is unpleasant or unexpected,we assume that something about the person-and not the situation-caused the behaviour.In this sense,we are most like
A) philosophers.
B) social psychologists.
C) anthropologists.
D) sociologists.
E) personality psychologists.
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Methodology
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Q1) The procedure whereby the researcher explains the nature of the study and participants then decide whether or not to participate is called
A) informed consent.
B) experimental debriefing.
C) experimental review.
D) a truthful cover story.
E) pre-experimental briefing.
Answer: A
Q2) The notion of "the basic dilemma of the social psychologist" refers to A) whether or not to conduct ethically questionable research.
B) the trade-off between internal and external validity.
C) the trade-off between correlational and experimental research.
D) the trade-off between independent and dependent variables.
E) whether or not to use deception in their experiments.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Social Cognition
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Q1) Getting trapped in one's thoughts about unpleasant events and an inability to move on from them is a risk of
A) the accessibility heuristic.
B) counterfactual thinking.
C) the availability heuristic.
D) the self-fulfilling prophecy.
E) the representativeness heuristic.
Answer: B
Q2) At an outdoor concert,Julian automatically applies his "pot-smoker" schema when he sees a young man with long hair,sandals,and a Grateful Dead T-shirt.He offers the man a joint,and is arrested by an undercover narcotics officer.From a social-psychological perspective,what is the moral to this story?
A) It is very difficult to ignore atypical information completely.
B) It's never advisable to use schemas in interpreting the social world.
C) Efficient information processing often comes at a cost in accuracy.
D) Never trust anyone wearing a Grateful Dead T-shirt.
E) In everyday life, most people want their experiences to be atypical.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Social Perception
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Q1) You are having a foreign student from Japan stay at your house for a few months and are trying to prepare mentally for his visit by remembering material you have learned about cognitive differences between cultures.Based on Chapter 4 in the text,which non-Western pattern of attribution might you expect from this student?
A) attributing failure to external factors
B) frequent use of defensive attribution
C) a high belief in a just world
D) attributing success to internal factors and failure to external factors
E) attributing success to external factors and failure to internal factors
Q2) "Ellen is always crabby and tense,and that's why she's acting so impatient today," Simone remarked.Simone has just used a(n)_______ attribution to explain the cause of Ellen's impatience.
A) situational
B) external
C) inferential
D) internal
E) referential
Q3) Why is the correspondence bias also called the fundamental attribution error and why does it occur?
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Chapter 5: The Self Understanding Ourselves in a Social Context
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Q1) When asked to finish a sentence beginning "I am...," respondents from Asian countries are more likely to mention _______,because they grew up in a(n)_______ culture.
A) actual self; authoritarian
B) the ideal self; authoritarian
C) the ideal self; less oppressive
D) group membership; interdependent
E) the outer self; interdependent
Q2) The authors of your text suggest that East Asians' self-awareness tends to be influenced less by the presence of mirrors or video cameras than Westerners because
A) they pay less attention to contextual cues.
B) they only pay attention to social cues, not physical ones.
C) they tend to be more chronically self-aware.
D) they pay greater attention to inner feelings.
E) they are less concerned with their appearance.
Q3) Many social psychologists assert that much of our sense of self arises from our interactions with our observations of others-in effect,the self is social.How does Leon Festinger's social comparison theory fit this conceptualization of self?
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Chapter 6: Attitudes and Attitude Change
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Q1) Eva's friends and her husband think that it's important that she get a mammogram at her next annual check-up.Eva believes that it will be relatively easy for her to make time in her schedule for that extra procedure.Thus,Eva has every intention of getting a mammogram as part of her annual check-up.This example best reflects the power of _______ and _______ respectively,to influence behavioural intentions and subsequent behaviours.
A) subjective norms; affectively based attitudes
B) subjective norms; perceived behavioural control
C) specific attitudes; deliberative attitudes
D) deliberative attitudes; subjective norms
E) specific attitudes; perceived behavioural control
Q2) Explicit attitudes are _________,while implicit attitudes are __________.
A) public statements; private beliefs.
B) in conscious awareness; involuntary and sometimes unconscious.
C) affectively based; usually cognitively based.
D) involuntary; voluntary.
E) behaviourally based; affectively based.
Q3) In general,what is an attitude? Provide an example of an attitude toward some person or thing and identify the affective,cognitive,and behavioural components of that attitude.
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Chapter 7: Conformity
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Q1) What did Canadian Forces Master Seaman Biden,who spoke out against the Military's use of an outdated Anthrax virus,have in common with the deviant accomplice in Stanley Schacter's "Johnny Rocco" study?
A) They both were forced to leave the group.
B) They both were convinced to join the group majority.
C) They both were successful in redefining in-group membership.
D) They both were punished by group members by being assigned boring, tedious tasks.
E) They both were able to convince the rest of the group to join their arguments.
Q2) Why has so much research in social psychology focused on conformity?
A) Social psychologists believe that conformity is a maladaptive response.
B) Social psychologists find examples of conformity to be quite unusual.
C) Social psychologists have historically advocated greater interdependence in American society.
D) Social psychologists are dedicated to increasing conformity to reduce individualistic biases.
E) Social psychologists want to determine when and why conformity is sometimes foolish, sometimes adaptive.
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Chapter 8: Group Processes
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Q1) When social psychologists define a group as a collection of interdependent people,they mean that
A) members' needs and goals cause them to influence one another.
B) there is seldom interpersonal conflict in social groups.
C) minimal groups often evolve into social groups.
D) the group members interact with one another.
E) members of groups have relatively little impact on one another.
Q2) Social loafing is likely to impair performance _______ and to enhance performance _______.
A) on complex tasks; when we're with others.
B) on simple tasks; on complex tasks.
C) when we're alone; when we're with others.
D) when we're with others; when we're alone.
E) on complex tasks; on simple tasks.
Q3) In order for social facilitation to occur,the minimum requirement is the
A) presence of those with whom one is interacting.
B) concern about how others will evaluate us.
C) interdependence of actor and audience.
D) feedback from at least one other person.
E) mere presence of others.
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Chapter 9: Interpersonal Attraction
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Q1) Rebecca Curtis and Kim Miller (1986)assigned participants at random to have a conversation.One member of each pair was given "special" information that actually changed his or her behaviour.Results of their experiment reveal that when
A) people meet for the first time, complementarity influences attraction.
B) people meet for the first time, attitude similarity determines liking.
C) someone holds similar attitudes to our own, we like them better.
D) we think someone likes us, we actually behave in more likable ways.
E) someone holds dissimilar attitudes to our own, we like them better.
Q2) Judith Langlois and Lori Roggman (1990)reviewed the literature on standards of beauty across cultures and they found that the attractiveness ratings among participants of all different races and ethnicities ranged from .66 to .93.These relatively large positive correlations suggest that
A) standards of beauty are similar within cultures, but not across cultures.
B) regardless of culture or background, people often agree on what is attractive.
C) standards of beauty differ significantly across cultures.
D) cultural values determine what is attractive.
E) culture has very little impact on what is considered attractive.
Q3) In what sense is the concept of romantic love culture-specific?
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Chapter 10: Prosocial Behaviour
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Q1) Participants in an experiment by Miho Toi and Daniel Batson (1982)listened to an (alleged)radio interview in which a student in their Introductory Psychology class described an accident that caused her to fall behind in the course.Based on the empathy-altruism hypothesis,the researchers predicted that participants would help Carol when
A) they were instructed to be objective while listening to the interview.
B) Carol made a direct request for participants' help.
C) they believed that they would see Carol back in class.
D) they were instructed to try to imagine how Carol felt.
E) Carol was believed to be attractive.
Q2) Mary Harris and her colleagues (Harris,Benson,& Hall,1975)found that churchgoers were more likely to donate to charity before they attended confession than after,presumably because the act of confession
A) distracted them.
B) made them feel guilty.
C) reduced their guilt.
D) enhanced their self-esteem.
E) reduced their self-esteem.
Q3) Do men and women differ in their tendency to help? If so,how?
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Chapter 11: Aggression
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Q1) Although aggressiveness has evolved and has been maintained because it has survival value,researchers underscore the point that _______________ also seem to have developed strong inhibitory mechanisms that enable them to suppress aggression when it is in their best interest to do so.
A) nearly all organisms
B) nearly all vertebrates
C) cognitively developed species
D) most primates
E) only a few species
Q2) According to Fehr and colleagues (1999),participants expected that when they were angry with someone,if they ______________,then the other person would
A) expressed their anger in postitive, constructive ways; still respond negatively to the conflict
B) expressed their anger in positive, constructive ways; take that as a sign of weakness and use it to their advantage
C) expressed their anger in negative ways; treat them with more respect
D) expressed their anger in negative ways; react more positively
E) expressed their anger in positive, constructive ways; react more positively
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Chapter 12: Prejudice
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Q1) The two steps in Devine's (1989)model of cognitive processing of stereotypes are
A) negative feelings and negative behaviours.
B) negative thoughts and negative feelings.
C) automatic processing and controlled processing.
D) activation of the stereotype and engaging in discrimination.
E) negative thoughts and negative behaviours.
Q2) Maria is a member of a chess team.Her ratings of the other members of her team are likely to be __________ her ratings of members of another chess team.
A) the same as
B) less varied than
C) more positive than
D) more negative than
E) more varied than
Q3) The tendency to favour the in-group and discriminate against the out-group is A) a result of the need to perceive the world accurately.
B) an automatic product of information processing.
C) more likely in people who are "cognitive misers."
D) more likely in people who are high in the need for cognition.
E) motivated at least in part by the desire to enhance self-esteem.
Q4) What is stereotype threat,why does it arise,and what are the consequences?
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology in Action 1
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Q1) Based on the research conducted by Reno,Cialdini and Kallgren (1993),one effective technique for having your friend pick up her discarded granola bar wrapper is to
A) have signs saying "please pick up after yourself."
B) shout at your friend whenever she fails to pick up after herself.
C) offer her a small token when she does pick up after herself.
D) remind your friend of the importance that one person's actions can have on the environment.
E) have your friend observe you picking up after yourself.
Q2) Graham,Koo,and Wilson (2011)asked students to track the number of miles they avoided driving on a website.Those who were keeping track
A) drove more than those who were not keeping track.
B) drove less only if they were also told how much money they had saved on gas.
C) drove less only if they were told about the savings in air pollution.
D) drove less especially when given feedback about financial savings and reduction in air pollution.
E) drove less only if they had intrinsic motivation to reduce driving.
Q3) Discuss how social psychology is in a unique position to contribute to the development of programs to improve the environment.
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Chapter 14: Social Psychology in Action 2
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Q1) Amos has just been fired from his job at a major software firm.As he packs up the contents of his desk,he says to a colleague,"It just goes to show what can happen when your supervisor has it in for you."" Amos' attribution in this case can best be characterized as
A) specific.
B) stable.
C) global.
D) internal.
E) universal
Q2) According to contemporary researchers (e.g.Holmes & Rahe,1967),stress reflects the degree to which people
A) interpret any given stimulus as threatening.
B) perceive events as negative.
C) must readjust their lives to physiological events.
D) perceive their lives as threatening.
E) must readjust their lives to external events.
Q3) There are social solutions to cope with and prevent health problems.For example,seeking social support and "opening up" to others.How does each of these phenomena help people cope with negative life events?
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Chapter 15: Social Psychology in Action 3
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Q1) Jason is a jury member hearing a robbery case.He listens to a witness testify against the suspect.Based on evidence by Bond and DePaulo (2006)presented in your text about people's ability to tell when someone is lying,how accurate would Jason be in telling if the witness was lying?
A) He would definitely be able to detect a liar.
B) He would be very likely to be able to tell if the witness was lying.
C) He would be somewhat more likely than chance to be able to tell if the witness was lying.
D) He would be well below simply leaving to chance telling if the witness was lying.
E) He would have no idea whether or not the witness was lying.
Q2) Lawyers who present their case in witness order present witnesses
A) in the order they believe will have the greatest impact.
B) from weakest support of their arguments to strongest.
C) to take advantage of the recency effect.
D) to take advantage of the primacy effect.
E) rely primarily on eyewitness testimony.
Q3) What is deterrence theory and what does scientific data suggest about the deterrence value of severe punishment such as capital punishment?
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