Applied Social Psychology Test Questions
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Applied Social Psychology explores how social psychological theories, principles, and research methods are used to understand and address real-world issues in various settings such as healthcare, education, the workplace, and communities. The course examines topics including attitude change, persuasion, social influence, prejudice reduction, group processes, and behavior change interventions. Students will learn to critically evaluate interventions and policies, design solutions to social problems, and develop skills in applying psychological knowledge to promote positive societal outcomes.
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THINK Social Psychology 1st Canadian Edition by Kimberley Duff
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Chapter 1: What Is Social Psychology
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Q1) A perspective that considers both internal and external factors is best considered a personality perspective.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Name two research topics that would fall under the rubric of 'social influence.' Why would they be considered examples of research topics in the area of social influence?
Answer: not answered
Q3) Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Social Psychology Quarterly, and Social Cognition are examples of _____________.
A) handbooks in the field of social psychology
B) books in the field of social psychology
C) journals in the field of social psychology
D) magazines dedicated to social psychology
Answer: C
Q4) Explain the relevance of differential construal to the false consensus effect. Be sure to define the false consensus effect in your answer.
Answer: not answered
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Chapter 2: The Science of Social Psychology
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Q1) A different factor that could be responsible for an observed effect between two other variables is defined as _____________.
A) a matched sample
B) a third variable
C) the directionality problem
D) both a third variable and the directionality problem
Answer: B
Q2) When an operational definition is valid this suggests that it measures what it is supposed to measure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A single-blind study would be used to reduce experimenter bias.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) When a hypothesis is not supported by the data this means that it false.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Social Cognition
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Q1) Which of the following would NOT be considered a consequence of being in a good mood?
A) Relying more on heuristics
B) Using stereotypes more
C) Being more easily persuaded
D) Evaluating information carefully
Answer: D
Q2) Once they are formed, schemas are easy to change.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following statements about schemas is NOT true?
A) Schemas help us organize information efficiently.
B) Schemas help guide processing of future information.
C) Schemas eliminate all errors in thinking and remembering.
D) Schemas affect what we notice and remember.
Answer: C
Q4) Define schema and provide an example.
Answer: not answered
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Chapter 4: The Self
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Q1) Distinguish between high and low self-monitors. How would a high self-monitor behave at work with his co-workers compared with at social gathering with his friends? How would a low self-monitor act in these two different situations?
Q2) Researchers who have studied the relationship between self-efficacy and goal achievement have found support for which of the following conclusions?
A) People with higher self-efficacy are more likely to achieve personal goals.
B) People with lower self-efficacy are surprisingly more likely to achieve personal goals. C) There does not appear to be a relationship between self-efficacy and goal achievement.
D) The relationship between self-efficacy and goal achievement is not clear or well-understood.
Q3) Which theory suggests that our self-concepts are impacted by the degree to which our actual selves match our ideal selves?
A) Self-determination theory
B) Social identity theory
C) Self-discrepancy theory
D) Self-perception theory
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Chapter 5: Social Perception
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Q1) Brenda has not turned in her homework for over a week and her teacher assumes that she is lazy and unmotivated. It never occurs to Brenda's teacher that she is under a lot of stress and dealing with difficult life circumstances. The teacher's explanation for Brenda's behaviour can be considered an example of:
A) the correspondence bias.
B) the planning fallacy.
C) the attributional error effect.
D) the false consensus effect.
Q2) In general, research suggests that we are __________ at detecting lies.
A) excellent
B) 100% accurate
C) very bad
D) slightly better than chance
Q3) Explaining Maureen's bad test grade by suggesting she is not intelligent is an example of a situational attribution.
A)True
B)False
Q4) When are we more likely to be accurate when forming impressions of other people?
Q5) Describe the correspondence inference theory.
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Chapter 6: Attitudes
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Q1) Suppose you wanted to make people's attitudes towards a new product more favourable. Using the mere exposure effect, describe what you could do to increase people's liking of the product. How could this backfire on you?
Q2) You try a new type of food and then you get sick because of the flu. You develop a negative attitude toward that food and feel sick to your stomach every time you see or smell it. Name the type of conditioning described in this example. Identify and describe the unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, and conditioned response.
Q3) During her childhood, Holly sees that her mother disapproves of same-sex marriages. Through watching her mother, Holly ends up adopting a similar viewpoint. This could be considered an example of what type of learning?
A) Observational learning
B) Operant conditioning
C) Classical conditioning
D) Observational learning, operant learning, and classical learning
Q4) Culture moderates the extent to which individuals experience dissonance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the name-letter effect? What impact might this effect have on your life?
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Chapter 7: The Power of Persuasion
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Q1) Why do researchers believe that the reciprocation norm operates on the need to restore balance and not necessarily because of our selfish desire to receive recognition for our acts?
A) Because research supports the idea that we do not like to receive recognition for our acts of kindness
B) Because people only seem to reciprocate when the other individual is aware of the favour
C) Because research supports the idea that humans are not selfish
D) Because people seem to reciprocate even when the other individual will not know they returned the favour
Q2) If voters who initially favour a particular political candidate are told that another candidate is ahead in the polls, they may change their voting behaviour. This is an example of the ________ tactic of persuasion.
A) social proof
B) authority
C) inoculation
D) reactance
Q3) How might persuasion and the use of persuasion tactics differ across cultures?
Q4) What is the sleeper effect? When is this effect less likely to occur?
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Chapter 8: Social Influence
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Q1) Informational social influence occurs when one goes along with a group because one wants to be accepted.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Based on Milgram's work showing the effect of proximity on obedience, it would be harder for John to obey an order to kill another individual under which of the following conditions?
A) When the authority figure is far away from John
B) When John is shooting at the individual from a great distance
C) When John has to use his bare hands to kill the individual
D) When the authority figure is wearing a military uniform
Q3) Describe two of the six principles of compliance described in your textbook and explain how they can be used to induce compliance.
Q4) A form of social influence that involves direct requests from one person to another person is called:
A) compliance.
B) private conformity.
C) informational social influence.
D) public conformity.
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Chapter 9: The Power of the Group
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Q1) Robert has been found guilty by a jury of his peers. Based on research presented in your textbook, a juror leaning towards a lighter sentence would recommend ______years in prison after deliberating with like-minded jurors.
A) more
B) less
C) the same
D) slightly more
Q2) Decreasing self-awareness increases the likelihood of deindividuation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How does culture interact with social loafing? How does this relate to gender differences in social loafing?
Q4) Research suggests that as self-awareness decreases, ________ will likely increase.
A) evaluation apprehension
B) performance
C) deindividuation
D) social facilitation
Q5) Name and describe the three factors that may lead to arousal.
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Chapter 10: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
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Q1) You would expect that Jack, a Caucasian man, would more easily recognize people of which racial/ethnic group?
A) Blacks
B) Hispanics
C) Caucasians
D) Both Caucasians and blacks
Q2) A teacher who wants to reduce prejudice in her classroom and promote acceptance and harmony assigns the students to complete group projects where the final grade is dependent on each group member completing their assigned task. The teacher is utilizing what technique?
A) Decreased contact
B) The jigsaw classroom technique
C) Education
D) Individual personal motivation
Q3) Which researchers coined the term aversive racism?
A) John Gaertner and Patricia Devine
B) Samuel Dovidio and Patricia Devine
C) Samuel Dovidio and John Gaertner
D) Patricia Devine and John Bargh
Q4) Compare and contrast old-fashioned sexism and modern sexism.
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Chapter 11: Aggression
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Q1) Compare and contrast frustration aggression theory with cognitive-neoassociation theory.
Q2) Social exclusion is to __________ aggression, as insults are to ________ aggression.
A) indirect; direct
B) indirect; indirect
C) direct; direct
D) direct; indirect
Q3) Carnagey and Anderson (2005) had participants play a car-racing video game where players either lost points for violence, were rewarded for violence, or where violence did not impact a player's score. What did they find?
A) Rewarding violent behaviour decreased hostile emotions
B) Punishing violent behaviour increased hostile emotions
C) Rewarding violent behaviour decreased aggressive behaviour and thinking
D) Punishing violent behaviour decreased aggressive behaviour and thinking
Q4) If you wanted to see an increase in a person's level of aggression all you would have to do is inject them with testosterone.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Attraction and Close Relationships
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Q1) Julie meets Eric when they both go skydiving for the first time. They show an initial attraction for one another and start dating soon after. Using the excitation transfer hypothesis, describe why Julie might have developed an attraction for Eric while skydiving.
Q2) Moreland and Beach (1992) had different assistants attend a class 0, 5, 10, or 15 times over a semester. None of the assistants, however, actually interacted with the students. At the end of the semester, when students were shown photos of the assistants and asked how much they liked each one, it was found that:
A) the more often an assistant was present in class, the less students liked him or her.
B) the less often an assistant was present in class, the more students liked him or her.
C) there was no relationship between how often an assistant had been present in class and how much he or she was liked.
D) the more often an assistant was present in class, the more students liked him or her.
Q3) Define passionate and companionate love. When are these types of love most likely to occur in a relationship and how long will each one last?
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Chapter 13: Prosocial Behaviour
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Q1) In what situations are men more likely to help compared to women?
Q2) What is step 1 of the decision model of bystander intervention? What are the three factors that can influence this step?
Q3) When Ilene weighs the personal costs of donating time at a charity event (e.g., giving up her weekend) to personal benefits (e.g., feeling good about herself), she is engaging in decision-making process known as cost-benefit analysis.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe what someone with an altruistic personality would be like. Provide a real-world example of an individual you think has this personality type and explain why you chose this person.
Q5) What is the relationship between viewing prosocial media content and prosocial behaviour in children?
A) Curvilinear
B) Negative
C) Quadratic
D) Positive
Q6) How could the enlightenment effect be useful for increasing prosocial behaviour?
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