Behavioral Science Exam Practice Tests
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Behavioral Science is an interdisciplinary field that explores the complex interactions between human behavior, decision-making, and social environments. Drawing from psychology, sociology, anthropology, and cognitive science, this course examines the principles and theories that shape individual and group behaviors. Students will analyze patterns of thought, emotion, and action, investigating how cultural, biological, and environmental factors contribute to human behavior. Through case studies and empirical research, the course provides tools for understanding and influencing behavior, with applications in areas such as health, education, business, and public policy.
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Chapter 1: An Introduction to Social Psychology
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Q1) In a single-blind study, who of the following is unaware of what group the participants are in
A) researchers
B) participants
C) examiners
D) students
Answer: B
Q2) Many topics and concepts become more interesting when you do which of the following
A) critically analyze the topic or concept
B) apply the topic or concept to yourself
C) try to disprove the topic concept
D) examine the concept using scientific principles
Answer: B
Q3) Most early psychologists in the United States studied non-human animals because their behaviors were easily observed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Research Methods
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Q1) A preexperimental design that explores a single event, person, or group in great detail is known as:
A) one-shot case study
B) one-group pretest-posttest design
C) pretest-posttest control group design
D) between-participants design
Answer: A
Q2) When people say that participants are WEIRD, they are concerned with what issue
A) reliability
B) internal validity
C) generalizability
D) ethical issues
Answer: C
Q3) Why should constructs be operationalized
A) So that variables are specific enough to be measured.
B) So that hypotheses can be proven true.
C) So that constructs can remain general.
D) So that applied research can be conducted.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The Social Self
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Q1) Helga is attending boarding school. When she stands up to introduce herself and share one "fun fact" about herself, she notes that she is a gardener. Which of the following has Helga described
A) personal characteristic
B) social role characteristic
C) self-schema
D) self-differentiation
Answer: B
Q2) During the winter Olympics, Juanita feels a sense of pride when someone from the state she was born in wins the gold medal in curling. This sense of pride can be attributed to which of the following
A) self-differentiations
B) self-schemas
C) cultural self
D) regional self
Answer: D
Q3) Protecting our self-esteem influences our self-concept.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Social Cognition
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Q1) Dual processing may be discussed in many ways, but the text primarily discusses in terms of what
A) System 1 versus System 2
B) automatic versus effortful
C) implicit versus explicit
D) intuition versus logic
Q2) What do memory structures allow humans to do
A) process information almost automatically
B) carefully process detailed information
C) remember information more accurately
D) remember unusual occurrences more than common ones
Q3) Which of the following best describes a customer's restaurant script
A) the series of events that involves paying for and eating food
B) when the server presents the drink and food specials
C) the steps involved in preparing the meal
D) the process involved in selecting a restaurant
Q4) List and define the two thinking systems. Provide an example of each.
Q5) Stereotypes assume great diversity in outgroups.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Person Perception
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Q1) Which of the following was true of murderers who lied about searching for missing relatives
A) They blinked more often than people telling the truth.
B) They shifted nervously more often than truthful people.
C) They used fewer words in their pleas than truthful people.
D) They were more likely than truthful people to grimace before speaking.
Q2) Another term for self-fulfilling prophecy is called ______.
A) a central trait
B) expectancy effect
C) attributional ambiguity
D) halo effect
Q3) Police often push suspects to confess, believing they can spot a lie. What is one reason that this is a bad idea
A) Many criminals are sociopaths and don't have common "tells" when lying.
B) Coerced confessions are never allowed in court.
C) People are more sensitive to positive than negative information.
D) It is easy to confuse affect blends with lying.
Q4) What is the relationship between attributions and historical events?
Q5) Explain one way that self-fulfilling prophecy may be positive.
Q6) Explain how the principle of noncommon effects can be related to attributions.
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Chapter 6: Attitudes and Persuasion
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Q1) Selecting information that supports your viewpoint and ignoring other information is known as ______.
A) rationalization trap
B) cherry-picking data
C) self-justification
D) cognitive dissonance
Q2) Calvin routinely takes office supplies from work, and feels this is acceptable because everyone else is doing it. What is Calvin engaging in
A) cognitive dissonance
B) sufficient justification
C) self-justification
D) rationalization trap
Q3) Explain the difference between informational beliefs and evaluative beliefs.
Q4) Lola had to study the counterarguments in preparation for her debate. As a result, she was harder to persuade than before the debate. What explains this A) heuristics
B) attitude inoculation
C) social power
D) context variables
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Chapter 7: Social Influence: Conformity, Social Roles, and Obedience
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Q1) Participants in Asch's line estimation study exhibited what A) informational social influence
B) generational influence
C) private conformity
D) public conformity
Q2) A girl in a village spontaneously cried. The next day, all children in the village spontaneously cried. Within a week, all villagers for miles around would cry compulsively every day. What happened
A) social contagion
B) social norms
C) social influence
D) social networks
Q3) In Milgram's second shock experiment, when the victim would scream in increasingly desperate ways as shock increased, what percentage of Yale students used the maximum voltage
A) 0.5
B) 0.65
C) 0.1
D) 0.87
Q4) Define the term social influence.
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Chapter 8: Group Processes
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Q1) ______ occurs when lack of cooperation and communication weakens the group's effectiveness.
A) Coordination loss
B) Diffusion of responsibility
C) Social loafing
D) Process loss
Q2) Among college students, how likely diffusion of responsibility happens when students get to grade one another
A) more likely
B) less likely
C) not at all likely
D) about the same
Q3) Professor Glen wants to assign group projects but is concerned that some students won't do their fair share of work. What can he do to reduce the amount of social loafing
A) Assign each group member a particular task for which they are responsible.
B) Make the task easy.
C) Have students who don't know each other well work together.
D) Emphasize the minor nature of the task.
Q4) Explain how a group can provide a sense of identity. Give at least two examples.
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Chapter 9: Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination
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Q1) Assuming that an African American coworker got his or her position because of affirmative action is called what
A) benevolent prejudice
B) modern-symbolic prejudice
C) old-fashioned prejudice
D) ambivalent prejudice
Q2) What describes religious behaviors because of social or practical rewards
A) extrinsic religiosity
B) religion as quest
C) intrinsic religiosity
D) fundamentalism
Q3) The idea that women are either virtuous angels or sinful devils has been called ______.
A) benevolent sexism
B) hostile sexism
C) modern-symbolic sexism
D) virgin/whore false dichotomy
Q4) Explain what common findings can be drawn from both the Robber's Cave Study and the jigsaw classroom activity.
Q5) Name one study that shows the effect of cooperation on racism.
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Chapter 10: Helping Prosocial Behavior
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Q1) Using the Latané & Darley's 5-Step Model of Helping, what is one reason a person is more likely to receive help in a small town than a big city
A) People are more likely to notice the event.
B) Small town citizens are more responsible.
C) People from rural areas are more like to assume an event is an emergency.
D) People from small towns are better equipped to help.
Q2) Which of the following is a statement you would expect to hear from someone low in openness to experience
A) I don't like travelling. I like my routine.
B) I try to be friendly.
C) I like parties.
D) I worry over small things.
Q3) What is the concept that humans engage in prosocial behaviors to fit in to our group's expectations of social behavior
A) social norms
B) negative state relief
C) evolutionary perspective
D) empathy-altruism
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Chapter 11: Aggression
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Q1) In which situation is someone most likely to behave aggressively
A) if there is a badminton racket in the room
B) if there is a rifle in the room
C) if there is a doll in the room
D) if there is nothing in the room
Q2) June and Jenny decide to raise their child to be forgiving. They demonstrate forgiveness and generosity whenever possible. What is the likely result
A) Their child will rebel against their teaching and become more aggressive.
B) June and Jenny will create a situation of increased danger by not using revenge well.
C) Their child will learn forgiveness from them to resolve conflicts.
D) June and Jenny will become frustrated with never venting their anger and get more angry.
Q3) Which of the following is true about testosterone and aggression
A) Testosterone has a much greater effect on nonhuman animals.
B) Expressing anger decreases testosterone levels.
C) Testosterone only affects the behavior of male animals.
D) Aggression and testosterone both increase throughout life.
Q4) What is a term for when human or animal behavior is determined by biology?
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Chapter 12: Intimate Relationships
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Q1) Someone who believes in having multiple committed relations at once may be known as ______.
A) someone who has friends with benefits
B) polyamorous
C) monogamous
D) someone who hooks up with others
Q2) Which relationship style showed low levels of self-disclosure, intimacy, reliance on others, and self-confidence
A) preoccupied
B) secure
C) fearful
D) dismissing
Q3) John and Jo live in apartments next to one another. As such, they see each other on a daily basis. Although they are from different states, work in different fields, and have different political views, that become attracted to one another other time. What does this exemplify
A) similarity-attraction hypothesis
B) misattribution of arousal
C) mere exposure
D) assortative mating
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology and a Sustainable Environment
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Q1) How do researchers know that making stairs into piano keys makes people walk more stairs
A) nautralistic observation
B) fun theory
C) escalating theory
D) analysis of threshold data
Q2) In which way do social psychologists "shine" when responding to the unique threat posed by climate change
A) by evaluating scientific claim
B) by prioritizing what environmental faucet needs fixing
C) by persuading others that science has value
D) analyzing data regarding the extent of enviornmental damage
Q3) Human factors is an academic discipline devoted to designing products that maximize human interaction.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Consider the current rate of species loss versus the estimated threshold for species loss. What is the relationship between these two numbers? What does this say about the potential for threshold effects?
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Chapter 14: Social Psychology of Law and the Courtroom
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Q1) Describe the progression of the relationship between the law and psychology. Be sure to mention important events that helped and hindered the relatinoship between the two professions.
Q2) A suspected offender admits to comitting a crime after being physically and emotionally abused during questioning. Which type of confession would this be considered
A) instrumental confession
B) coerced confession
C) instrumental, voluntary confession
D) authentic, coerced, false confession
Q3) What role might an expert in evaluation research play in social disparities, such as trends in biased sentencing based on age, gender, or race?
Q4) A person recalls an event to the best of their knowledge; however, how they remember the event is affected by their own bias, stereotypes, and wishes. Which term does this describe
A) misinformation effect
B) construction hypothesis
C) presupposition
D) coercion
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Chapter 15: Social Psychology of Stress and Health
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Q1) Which of the following can help you agree on the goal of your consultancy
A) attitude changes
B) subjective norms
C) intuition
D) assessment
Q2) Which of the following provides a three-stage theory of how our bodies respond to stress
A) Yerkes-Dodson law
B) biomedical model of disease
C) biopsychosocial model of disease
D) general adaptation syndrome
Q3) Which common persuasion tactic states that people are more likely to comply with a large request after first agreeing to a smaller request
A) reciprocity
B) theory of planned behavior
C) consensus
D) foot-in-the-door
Q4) Describe the buffering hypothesis and its effect on individuals experiencing stress.
Q5) What role do summative and formative assessment play in medical care?
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Chapter 16: Social Psychology and Happiness: Positive
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of positive individual traits
A) eliminating use of performance-enhancing drugs
B) reducing fan expressions of prejudice
C) promoting integrity and respect among students
D) correcting our colleges profit from athletics
Q2) Game-based assessments focus on what the learner has done wrong rather than what the learner has done right.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which game design mechanic recognize the important of learning through performing a skill incorrectly
A) failing forward
B) peak performance
C) authentic engagement
D) subjective experience
Q4) Why are game-based assessments considered an expression of positive psychology? What do they help capture?
Q5) What is the relationship between positive psychology and the disease model used in medicine?
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Chapter 17: Social Psychology and Behavioral
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Q1) The standard economic model and the behavioral economic model are in constant struggle with one another.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following tests whether people value cooperation or competition
A) rational economic thinking
B) prospect theory
C) bounded rationality
D) game theory
Q3) You have been in a serious relationship for 5 years and are considering proposing to your partner. Which of the following is an action that you might choose according to standard game theory
A) You propose because a rejection will not cost you much money.
B) You put off proposing because of potential rejection.
C) You propose because your love for your partner outweighs the potential pain of rejection.
D) You put off proposing because you will feel humiliated if you are rejected.
Q4) How does reputation affect the ultimatum game scenario?
Q5) Create and describe your own example of the prisoner's dilemma.
Q6) Compare and contrast the standard economic model and behavioral economic.
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Chapter 18: Social Psychology and Relationship Violence
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Q1) Which of the following would be considered a self-reclaiming action
A) changing how you interpret your partner's behaviors
B) realizing that one's partner does not actually love you
C) seeing what is happening in a relationship from an outside view
D) seeking out counseling
Q2) Which of the following is a romantic myth that notes that a man, who is a relative stranger, can come into a woman's life and save her from her problems
A) Cinderella fantasy
B) Beauty and the Beast fantasy
C) Pocahontas fantasy
D) Snow White fantasy
Q3) Sabrina is a survivor of relationship violence. Since leaving her violent relationship, Sabrina's counselor has encouraged her to write stories and poems about her experiences as a form of treatment. Which of the following terms describes Sabrina's actions
A) last straw event
B) seed of doubt
C) narrative therapy
D) posttraumatic growth
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Chapter 19: Social Psychology of Work:
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Q1) The ______ model guides industrial psychology.
A) scientist-practitioner
B) affective forecasting
C) clinical psychology
D) medical science
Q2) Which of the following was one of the earliest interest of I/O psychologists
A) determining the best job for individuals
B) determining the best way to appraise the performance of individuals
C) work/life balance
D) employee morale
Q3) Walter Dill Scott's initial plan to experiment with industrial/organizational psychology tactics was immediately embraced and encouraged by General Joseph Kuhn.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The purpose of performance appraisal is to punish employees for poor work.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the relationship between work/life balance and employee assistance programs?
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Chapter 20: Social Psychology of Volunteerism and Internships
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Q1) What are the similarities and differences between undergraduate- and graduate-level internships?
Q2) Which of the following is an example of a characteristic of high-impact internships
A) The internship is student-led, with little insight from supervisors or sponsoring professor.
B) The student intern should effortlessly be able to apply what they have learned in class.
C) The student intern is exposed to diverse ideas.
D) The internship supervisor provides little feedback to let students experiment in the field.
Q3) High-impact internships should inspire self-reflection.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Volunteering only benefits the causes it supports.
A)True B)False
Q5) Provide an example of how the overjustification effect may occur.
Q6) Describe the differences between egoism and altruism.
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Chapter 21: Social Psychology and Personal Finance
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Q1) Discounts are a way for merchandisers to ______.
A) help consumers feel they've been "smart shoppers"
B) encourage use of new products
C) temporarily depress revenue in order to gain more customers
D) eliminate product habits
Q2) Gambling with poker chips rather than real money at a casino is an example of ______.
A) compulsion
B) payment decoupling
C) mere ownership effect
D) mental accounting
Q3) In auction fever experiments, which trigger overbidding?
A) embarrassment and desire
B) anger and frustration
C) excitement and fear
D) anticipation and sadness
Q4) Not placing a limit on how many items a consumer may purchase encourages them to buy more of a certain product.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: Social Psychology and Forgiveness
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Q1) To Kill A Mockingbird created a shared ______ that reversed the public spectacles of lynchings.
A) social norm
B) law
C) social awareness
D) value
Q2) Humans are most effective at peace-making when they______.
A) forgive and forget
B) reconcile and move on
C) forgive without forgetting
D) reconcile without hostility
Q3) Which of the following refers to a social process that leads to a friendly reunion between former opponents?
A) decisional forgiveness
B) emotional forgiveness
C) hostility
D) reconciliation
Q4) Forgiveness refers to a public action.
A)True
B)False
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