Behavioral Science Exam Questions
Course Introduction
Behavioral Science is an interdisciplinary field that explores the interactions among human thoughts, emotions, and actions. The course introduces students to core concepts from psychology, sociology, anthropology, and neuroscience, examining how individual and social factors influence behavior. Through the study of motivation, decision-making, group dynamics, communication, and learning processes, students gain insight into the foundational mechanisms driving human activity. The course also addresses applications of behavioral science to real-world issues such as health, education, and organizational effectiveness, equipping students with critical tools for analyzing and influencing behavior in diverse contexts.
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Social Psychology and Human Nature Comprehensive Edition 3rd Edition by Roy F. Baumeister
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Chapter 1: The Mission and the Method
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Q1) A hypothesis is BEST described as a(n) ____.
A) worldview
B) educated guess
C) random guess
D) post-hoc explanation (an explanation that has the benefit of hindsight knowledge)
Answer: B
Q2) While social psychologists are interested in a wide variety of topics, three themes that have become increasingly important during the last 30 years are ____.
A) psychoanalysis, meditation, and hypnosis
B) economic behavior, political behavior, and criminal behavior
C) social cognition, biological influences on behavior, and the self
D) personality measurement, organizational behavior, and spirituality
Answer: C
Q3) Social psychology primarily relies on the experimental method.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Culture and Nature
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Q1) Research suggests that humans evolved relatively large brains in order to
A) increase their capacity for complex interpersonal relationships.
B) allow them to more effectively navigate complicated terrain.
C) allow them to outsmart predators.
D) allow them to develop language.
Answer: A
Q2) How does the modern notion of the automatic system relate to the Freudian idea of the unconscious mind?
A) They are completely unrelated ideas because of the physiological versus psychological bent of each.
B) They address opposite but complementary parts of the mind.
C) They both address the same part of the mind, but differ in their view of how this part functions.
D) They describe the exact same construct physiologically and psychologically.
Answer: C
Q3) Homosexual activity is looked upon as abnormal in all contemporary societies. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Self
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Q1) Who will be the MOST modest?
A) Jack, who is describing himself to a woman he is considering asking out
B) Martina, who is on a first interview for a new job
C) Daisy, who is networking with people at a business dinner
D) Clancy, who is telling his folks about how his semester has gone
Answer: D
Q2) Jake grew up in a really religious home, but when he is at college he never goes to church. He considers how rarely he goes to church without his family, and decides that religion must not be very important to him. Jake's experience is best explained by social comparison theory.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) In addition to gaining social acceptance, a second goal of self-presentation is to
A) claim an identity
B) gain self-knowledge
C) provide self-verification
D) increase public self-consciousness
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Choices and Actions: The Self in Control
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Q1) According to the textbook, the two main drawbacks of plans are that ____ and
A) they can be discouraging if they are too rigid and detailed; they tend to be overly optimistic
B) they can be discouraging if they are too rigid and detailed; they tend to be anxiety-provoking
C) they tend to distract people from actually completing the tasks at hand; they tend to be overly optimistic
D) they tend to distract people from actually completing the tasks at hand; they often fail to prioritize the most important things
Q2) Suppose that you are out on a date. Although your date is somewhat entertaining, you keep having intrusive thoughts about the paper that you need to finish writing when you get home. These thoughts are evidence of the ____.
A) omission bias
B) panic button effect
C) Zeigarnik effect
D) capacity to delay gratification
Q3) Habits are primarily influenced by the ____________________ system.
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Chapter 5: Social Cognition
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Q1) If you have a schema about graduate students, then ____.
A) you probably tend to think about graduate students much more than the average person
B) you have a general sense of what they are like, what they do, and how they are different from other people
C) you probably have a tendency to separate the world into "graduate students" and "non-graduate students"
D) you are very likely to become a graduate student in the future
Q2) Dr. Canne wants to encourage Kirk to lose weight. He tells Kirk, "If you don't start working out soon, you are going to die young and leave your children without a father!" Dr. Canne is using a(n) ____.
A) prime
B) script
C) gain-framed appeal
D) loss-framed appeal
Q3) There are a number of heuristics, errors, and biases upon which people routinely rely that suggest that they are not naturally skilled at making estimates of statistical probabilities. Identify and discuss at least three of these.
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Chapter 6: Emotion and Affect
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Q1) The emotion of disgust is most likely to make you willing to ____.
A) pay more for an object
B) pay less for an object
C) lower a selling price for an object
D) pay less for an object, and also sell an object for less as well
Q2) Contrary to what many people think, married couples generally believe (prior to having any children) that having children will make them less happy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Salespeople who force themselves to smile at customers all day may actually end up feeling relatively happy. This effect can be best explained by ____.
A) the facial feedback hypothesis
B) excitation transfer theory
C) the Yerkes-Dodson law
D) catharsis theory
Q4) Briefly describe the different ways in which emotions can improve or hinder judgments, decision-making, and performance. When and why are they helpful and when and why are they harmful?
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Chapter 7: Attitudes, Beliefs and Consistency
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Q1) The idea that beliefs play a central role in helping people cope and recover from misfortunes is called ____.
A) balance theory
B) dual attitude theory
C) belief perseverance
D) cognitive coping
Q2) Ingrid believes there is a dog in the car. Even after she has looked absolutely everywhere in the car, and found no evidence whatsoever of a dog, she continues to believe this. This scenario MOST clearly exemplifies the notion of
Q3) Social psychologists use the term ____________________ attitudes to refer to the fact that people have two types of attitudes-automatic attitudes and deliberate attitudes-that are not always consistent with one another.
Q4) Deliberate attitudes can be defined as ____ evaluative responses.
A) controlled, conscious
B) controlled, unconscious
C) automatic, conscious
D) automatic, unconscious
Q5) The ease with which an attitude comes to mind is called
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Chapter 8: Social Influence and Persuasion
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Q1) The so-called limited-number technique is a persuasive technique based upon the principle of ____.
A) scarcity
B) reciprocity
C) disruption and reframing
D) consistency
Q2) People who are told that they are "generous souls" are more likely to donate money to charity than people who aren't. Similarly, people who are told that they are "stylish and cutting edge" are more likely to be persuaded to buy new trendy items in a store. Salespeople who capitalize on this technique are using the ____.
A) labeling technique
B) pique technique
C) disrupt-then-reframe technique
D) legitimization-of-paltry-favors technique
Q3) Advertisers and marketers use the term ____________________ to refer to a condition of inattention and irritation that occurs after an audience has encountered a specific ad many times.
Q4) Describe three strategies for resisting persuasion.
Q5) Describe the major results from Hovland's research program on persuasion.
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Chapter 9: Prosocial Behavior: Doing Whats Best for Others
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Q1) Research on gender and helping indicates that female helpers ____.
A) are more likely to help males than females
B) are more likely to help females than males
C) are equally likely to help males and females
D) are more likely to help females as children, but more likely to help males as adults
Q2) The management at Nargis's company tends to be fair. They treat people with respect, they do not make unrealistic demands on their employees, and they reward people appropriately. As a result, Nargis and her co-workers tend to be good "company citizens"; they help one another out and they speak respectfully of their jobs. The pattern of behavior exhibited by Nargis and her co-workers exemplifies the ____.
A) prisoner's dilemma
B) "good soldier" syndrome
C) "company massage"
D) audience inhibition effect
Q3) If laws do not exist or are widely disobeyed, ____________________ is said to be lacking.
Q4) ____________________ is going along with the crowd.
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Chapter 10: Aggression and Antisocial Behavior
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Q1) Low levels of the neurotransmitter ____________________ are associated with aggression.
Q2) The idea that signs of disorder will induce other forms of antisocial behavior is known as ____.
A) frustration aggression theory
B) Broken Windows Theory
C) instinct theory
D) the weapons effect
Q3) What does the text conclude about the human "instinct" for aggression?
A) There is no such thing.
B) Humans do seem to have an instinct for aggression, and culture seems to have little impact on it.
C) Humans do seem to have an instinct for aggression, and, in general, culture tends to feed that instinct and encourage even more aggression.
D) Humans do seem to have an instinct for aggression, but, in general, culture tends to curb that instinct and reduce aggression.
Q4) Instinct theories argue that aggression is ____________________.
Q5) What are the characteristics of people who frequently swear?
Q6) Why should aggression be understood as a form of social influence?
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Chapter 11: Attraction and Exclusion
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Q1) Wolfgang is engaging in an act of ingratiation. What does this mean exactly?
A) He is trying to redeem himself, or "make up" for something.
B) He is trying to get someone to do something for him.
C) He is trying to get someone to like him.
D) He is empathizing with someone.
Q2) Most people find it ____ to form relationships with neighbors, co-workers, and other people. And most people ____ leave or end such relationships.
A) easy; just as easily
B) easy; are somewhat reluctant to
C) difficult; easily
D) difficult; are somewhat reluctant to
Q3) Greg is in love with Bill, but Bill is not in love with Greg. Clearly, then, this is a case of
A) eponymous love
B) anonymous love
C) unrequited love
D) unrivalled love
Q4) To feel a sense of ____________________, people need regular social contact and a relationship framework characterized by mutual concern for each other.
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Chapter 12: Close Relationships: Passion, Intimacy, and Sexuality
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Q1) People are often suspicious that their partners are cheating on them. How often are these suspicions unfounded? That is, how common is it for people to be suspicious about their spouses cheating when in fact their spouses have in fact been faithful?
A) Extremely common-about 90% of suspicions are unfounded.
B) Very common-about 75% of suspicions are unfounded
C) Somewhat common-about 30-40% of suspicions are unfounded.
D) Not that common-about 10-15% of suspicions are unfounded.
Q2) Which of the following statements best summarizes Diamond's conclusions regarding the attachment drive, the sex drive, and love?
A) These three phenomena all appear to come from the same core drive.
B) The attachment drive and the sex drive appear to be somewhat separate drives, and love seems to be based on the former.
C) The attachment drive and the sex drive appear to be somewhat separate drives, and love seems to be based on the latter.
D) While the attachment drive is critically important during infancy and childhood, it is replaced in importance by the sex drive during puberty and adulthood; love may grow out of either drive.
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Chapter 13: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations
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Q1) What does the text suggest about the accuracy of common stereotypes-do they seem to contain a kernel of truth?
A) Most common stereotypes are flat-out inaccurate.
B) Most common stereotypes are vaguely on the mark-somewhere between flat-out wrong and fairly accurate.
C) Most common stereotypes are fairly accurate in terms of their content, but exaggerate the supposed magnitude of their effects.
D) Most common stereotypes are fairly accurate both in terms of their content and in terms of the supposed magnitude of their effects.
Q2) The so-called "discontinuity effect" is lessened when ____.
A) there is preexisting animosity between the groups
B) the group is large rather than small
C) individuals are highly identified with their group
D) individual group members are identifiable
Q3) A group of students is working on a puzzle. Each student has two pieces necessary to complete it. All the students want to complete it. This is an example of a(n)
Q4) To what degree are stereotypes accurate?
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Chapter 14: Groups
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the symptoms of groupthink?
A) There is pressure toward conformity.
B) There is a high degree of self-censorship.
C) There is a sense of moral superiority.
D) There is a weak, non-directive group leader.
Q2) Research on diversity in groups indicates that, compared to more homogeneous groups, diverse groups tend to ____.
A) be less creative
B) cooperate more
C) have lower group morale
D) communicate more effectively
Q3) Explain how role differentiation satisfies two competing needs for humans as cultural animals.
Q4) Describe the process that led psychologists from understanding the "risky shift" to understanding that same phenomenon as a more general "group polarization" process.
Q5) Explanations used to justify why people in power deserve to be in power are called
Q6) What are the qualities of leaders that are "toxic" for their followers?
Q7) What are the pros and cons of diverse groups as opposed to homogeneous groups?
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Chapter 15: Applying Social Psychology to Consumer Behavior
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Q1) In cases when people don't really need a given product, advertisers and marketers whose job is to sell that product might take many approaches. Which of the following is the least likely approach?
A) Try to create a need for the product.
B) Try to persuade people that the product will meet some existing need.
C) Try to get people to at least be aware of the brand, so they will be inclined to buy the product some time in the future.
D) Decide not to market the product.
Q2) Tony is too cheap to buy weights to do weight-lifting. He therefore decides to use bottled water instead. Consumer psychologists would say that this is an example of
A) shrinkage
B) lateral cycling
C) product misuse
D) unbranded creativity
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Chapter 16: Applying Social Psychology to Health
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Q1) Most researchers contend that the best way to know when a person is stressed is to
A) see how their body responds to a given situation
B) take an inventory of recent life changes that they have experienced
C) simply ask them
D) measure their blood pressure
Q2) Amira notices a lump in her breast, but convinces herself that it was always there. As she continues to examine her breasts monthly, the lump remains and seems larger, but each time Amira finds a way to explain it away--the lump is just a result of the uncomfortable bra she was wearing, the lump is connected to her menstrual cycle, and so forth. In fact, she never has the lump investigated because she interprets the lump in terms of her belief that she is "healthy." Amira has succumbed to which social psychological error in thinking?
A) confirmation bias
B) attribution
C) self-fulfilling prophecy
D) chronic negative affect
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Chapter 17: Applying Social Psychology to the Workplace
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Q1) The identification of critical elements to do a job is accomplished through ____.
A) job analysis
B) workforce planning
C) performance review
D) organizational climate
Q2) Phil comes to work late, routinely misses meetings, and always uses the office copier for personal business. Phil is engaged in ____.
A) work withdrawal
B) affective commitment
C) quid pro quo harassment
D) mentoring
Q3) Janae is doing an interview with a series of prospective employees. She asks each candidate the same questions in the same order and rates their answers on a predetermined rating scale. Janae is conducting a(n) ____ interview.
A) affective
B) normative
C) structured
D) unstructured
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Chapter 18: Applying Social Psychology to the Law
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Q1) When it comes to eyewitness identifications in police lineups, sequential lineups are generally preferred to simultaneous lineups-especially when witnesses ____.
A) do not know how many people are in the lineup
B) are told in advance how many people are in the lineup
C) are asked to rate the similarity of each person in the lineup to the criminal
D) are asked to rank each person in the lineup in order of his or her similarity to the criminal
Q2) Suppose that Danielle was an eyewitness to a store robbery. She gives the police a description of the criminal: "30-35 year-old male, brown hair, light eyes, about 5'10", with a missing finger on his left hand." A few weeks later, police track down a suspect. He fits Danielle's description, and additionally has a lazy eye and a huge tattoo on his neck. If police use the match-to-culprit approach in constructing a lineup for eyewitness identification, then the foils in the lineup ____.
A) may or may not have brown hair
B) will definitely have brown hair, but may or may not be missing fingers
C) will definitely have brown hair and missing fingers, but may or may not have a tattoo
D) will definitely have brown hair, missing fingers, and a tattoo
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Chapter 19: Applying Social Psychology to the Environment
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Q1) Research suggests that the major components of air pollution affect the health of ____ people in the United States.
A) a small minority of B) a large minority of C) most
D) all
Q2) Research suggests that _____ can negatively impact employee work performance.
A) climate and noise (but not pollution)
B) noise (but not climate or pollution)
C) pollution and noise (but not climate)
D) climate, pollution, and noise
Q3) The concepts of sensory overload and cognitive control are related to crowding in that sensory overload tends to ____ crowding and cognitive control tends to ____ crowding.
A) accompany; inhibit the experience of B) accompany; also accompany
C) inhibit the experience of; also inhibit the experience of D) inhibit the experience of; accompany
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