Cultural Psychology Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Cultural Psychology explores how cultural contexts shape and influence human behavior, cognition, and emotion. The course examines the dynamic relationship between culture and psychological processes, emphasizing the impact of social norms, values, language, and traditions on individual development and mental health. Through a combination of theoretical frameworks and empirical research, students will investigate cultural variations in perception, identity, motivation, and interpersonal relationships, as well as the implications for cross-cultural communication and understanding in a globalized world.
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Social Psychology and Human Nature Comprehensive Edition 4th Edition by Roy F. Baumeister
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Chapter 1: The Mission and the Method
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Q1) Which field is BEST defined as "the study of human societies and the groups that form those societies"?
A) anthropology
B) political science
C) sociology
D) psychology
Answer: C
Q2) Using more than one exemplar of a stimulus (such as more than one violent video game in a study investigating violent video content on aggression) is known as ____.
A) stimulus sampling
B) meta-analysis
C) factorial design
D) the interaction effect
Answer: A
Q3) If you conduct a study and predict that excessive computer use causes social awkwardness, then social awkwardness is the ____________________ variable.
Answer: dependent
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Chapter 2: Culture and Nature
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Q1) Humans today still benefit from the famous invention of Alexander Graham Bell (the telephone). Even though Bell has been dead for generations, the basic technology he invented still lives on, and modern telephone systems have built off of and elaborated upon his invention. What best describes this?
A) generational division of labor
B) network of trade and exchange
C) praxis of creativity
D) progress through preservation of knowledge
Answer: D
Q2) The term "psyche" refers to ____.
A) the self-concept
B) the conscious mind only
C) the unconscious mind only
D) both the conscious and unconscious mind
Answer: D
Q3) Culture primarily serves to teach people ________________.
Answer: restraint (self-control or self control)
Q4) Another term for "culturally shared ways of doing things" is ________________. Answer: praxis
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Chapter 3: The Self
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Q1) People try to make impressions on others by explicitly telling other people things about themselves ("I have a lot of experience with this"), by wearing certain brands (e.g., Birkenstock, Stussy, Nike, Prada), and by using certain body language (e.g., strutting or crossing one's legs). These are all examples of ____.
A) the looking-glass self
B) self as institution
C) narcissism
D) self-presentation
Answer: D
Q2) Since about the 1970s, it appears that self-esteem in the U.S. has been ____.
A) increasing (for everyone)
B) decreasing (for everyone)
C) increasing for men but rapidly decreasing for women
D) rapidly decreasing among adolescents and teens
Answer: A
Q3) Since about the 1970s, it appears that self-esteem in the U.S. has been ________________ (increasing/decreasing).
Answer: increasing
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Chapter 4: Choices and Actions
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Q1) Research shows that when making decisions, MOST people are more interested in ____ as opposed to ____.
A) avoiding losses; pursuing gains
B) pursuing gains; avoiding losses
C) taking a gamble; "sure things"
D) "sure things"; taking a gamble
Q2) Thanh despises his job. His coworkers are, at best, annoying and more often, obnoxious and offensive. His supervisor is a narcissistic bully and the pay does not begin to make up for how terrible the conditions are. Thanh comforts himself by reminding himself that he can quit and work as a freelance web site designer if he wants to. This is consistent with the ____ effect.
A) self-determination
B) status quo
C) panic button
D) intrinsic motivation
Q3) The term self-regulation essentially refers to ____.
A) self-monitoring
B) self-control
C) behaving consistently across time
D) behaving similarly to other people
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Chapter 5: Social Cognition
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Q1) "Heuristic" is another word for ____.
A) causation
B) network
C) pathway
D) shortcut
Q2) Recent research suggests that the basic distinction people make in attribution processes is between _________________ and _________________ behavior.
Q3) The older students get, the more variance there is in their reading test scores. This pattern can be attributed to statistical regression.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Research indicates that the topic people think about most is ____.
A) other people
B) sex
C) work
D) money
Q5) Describe how one might reduce cognitive errors in processing social information.
Q6) Define and give an example of three heuristics that are discussed in the textbook.
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Chapter 6: Emotion and Affect
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Q1) Research on emotional intelligence indicates that people who score high on emotional intelligence are ____.
A) less likely to get promotions at work
B) perceived as having leadership skills
C) get higher peer but lower supervisor ratings
D) often bounce from job to job
Q2) Research indicates that men may actually be innately more emotional (i.e., experience emotions more strongly) as compared to women.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Lottery winners are no happier than anyone else a year after their big win. Similarly, people who have experienced serious physical injuries seem to "get over it" fairly well across time and return to their pre-injury level of happiness. These findings are consistent with research on ____.
A) the hedonic treadmill
B) the broaden-and-build theory
C) emotional intelligence (EQ)
D) personal affective indices
Q4) How does disgust act as a behavioral immune system?
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Chapter 7: Attitudes, Beliefs and Consistency
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Q1) According to research studies, people who hold strong attitudes toward an issue are least likely to do which of the following?
A) Show attitude polarization if they think about the issue.
B) Evaluate relevant information in a biased manner.
C) Seek out relevant information from outgroup members.
D) Seek out information that supports their initial view.
Q2) Research has shown that attitudes that are certain, stable, consistent, available, and based on direct experience are especially effective in predicting behavior. These attitudes best illustrate the term ____.
A) probability
B) intention
C) accessibility
D) aggregation
Q3) Research indicates that students who enter college knowing their likes and dislikes on academically relevant issues tend to experience better physical and mental health in the college setting than do other students.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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) In one well-known social psychological experiment, research participants were brought into a dark room where an experimenter projected dots of light. These dots of light appeared to move slightly as they were projected-though exactly how far they moved the participants couldn't say. When asked to estimate the distance that the light traveled, participants tended to look to others in the room, and ask them what they thought. All of the participants thus ended up giving somewhat similar answers-thereby establishing ____.
A) group norms
B) an autokinetic effect
C) a sleeper effect
D) an omega strategy
Q2) Individuals with high intelligence tend to be ____ to persuasive messages because of their ____.
A) unreceptive; long attention spans
B) unreceptive; constant multitasking
C) receptive; constant multitasking
D) receptive; long attention spans
Q3) The limited-number technique is based on consistency principles.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Prosocial Behavior: Doing Whats Best for Others
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Q1) If a society has law, regardless of how well they are obeyed, it is said to be under the rule of law.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The text defines prosocial behavior as ____.
A) any helping behavior
B) any behavior that is good for other people or for society as a whole
C) conformity
D) behavior that does not benefit oneself
Q3) The idea that empathy motivates people to reduce others' distress is known as the ________________.
Q4) In lay terms, the term "conformity" refers to ____.
A) doing something just to please others
B) going along with the crowd
C) obeying orders because of some standard
D) making yourself do something you don't want to do
Q5) If a workgroup operates under the ________________ norm, then each person in the group will be rewarded in direct proportion to the amount that he or she contributed.
Q6) ________________ is going along with the crowd.
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Chapter 10: Aggression and Antisocial Behavior
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Q1) About half of all lies are told by _____ of the population, so-called habitual liars.
A) 5%
B) 10%
C) 15%
D) 20%
Q2) According to the definitions of aggression and violence used in the text, which statement is true?
A) All aggressive acts are violent, and all violent acts are aggressive.
B) All aggressive acts are violent, but not all violent acts are aggressive.
C) Not all aggressive acts are violent, but all violent acts are aggressive.
D) Not all aggressive acts are violent, and not all violent acts are aggressive.
Q3) Tina watches a film in which the main character aggressively yells at his mother when he doesn't get what he wants. Later that day, Tina yells at her own mother in a similar way after failing to get something she wants. The process at play here, according to social learning theorists, is ____.
A) projection
B) monitoring
C) validation
D) modeling
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Chapter 11: Interpersonal Attraction and Rejection
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Q1) Suppose that Daniel has just begun his freshman year at college. Which of his actions best exemplifies the need to belong?
A) He buys the same kind of backpack that everyone else has so that he will "fit in."
B) He goes out to a lot of parties and social functions so that he can meet new friends, and perhaps meet a girlfriend.
C) He joins a political club on campus because he wants to feel part of "something bigger."
D) Even though he is buried with work, he makes an effort to walk around campus and go downtown periodically in order to "be in the world."
Q2) According to the textbook, the tendency for people to be attracted to others who are similar to them (rather than different from them) is probably an evolved preference-adaptive for humans and present in other animals as well.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How do social psychologists define the "need to belong?" How common is it? What evidence is there that this is a real "need"?
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Chapter 12: Close Relationships: Passion, Intimacy, and Sexuality
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Q1) The so-called "investment model" is a model that seeks to explain why people stay with their long-term relationship partners. This model identifies three key factors, namely
A) passion, commitment, and intimacy
B) security, anxiety, and avoidance
C) satisfaction, alternatives, and investments
D) similarity, familiarity, and propinquity
Q2) Consider these two stereotypes. Men have a stronger sex drive than women, and men are more likely than women to separate sex and love. Does social psychological research provide any support for these stereotypes?
A) Yes, research suggests that both are true in a general sense.
B) Research suggests that men have a stronger sex drive than women, but women may be more likely to separate sex and love than men.
C) Research suggests that men are more likely than women to separate sex and love, but men do not in fact seem to have stronger sex drives than women.
D) No, research does not support either one of these conclusions.
Q3) The research of ________________ suggests people want their romantic partners to see them as they see themselves.
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Chapter 13: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations
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Q1) The idea that regular interactions among members of different groups reduces prejudice, so long as the interactions occur under favorable conditions, is known as the
Q2) Suppose that some people have just been randomly assigned to two different teams. Research suggests that these people would be likely to exhibit discriminatory behavior (favoring the ingroup, and disfavoring the outgroup) ____.
A) immediately, as soon as the groups had been defined B) as soon as their ingroup became an important part of their personal identity
C) only after the two teams had engaged in direct competition
D) only after they had "bonded" with their ingroup by enduring a shared hardship
Q3) An example of ____ against Native Americans would be the practice of keeping them on reservations instead of letting them live wherever they want.
A) prejudice
B) discrimination
C) racism
D) stereotyping
Q4) Groups are more influenced by competition than individuals are. This effect has been dubbed the ________________.
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Chapter 14: Groups
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Q1) Early research in social psychology conducted by Max Ringelmann revealed that people ____ when they work as part of a group (e.g., pushing a car off of the road with two other people) compared to when they work alone at the same task.
A) do not work as hard
B) work harder
C) feel like they are doing more work
D) feel like they are doing less work
Q2) At what status level do we see a person adapting to any situation the most?
A) extremely low status
B) low status
C) moderate status
D) high status
Q3) A traditional economist-who believes that humans always behave in rational, self-interested ways-would be MOST shocked to learn about the human tendency for
A) evaluation apprehension
B) social loafing
C) the bad apple effect
D) altruistic punishment
Q4) In general, how does the presence of an audience affect task performance?
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Chapter 15: Applying Social Psychology to Consumer Behavior
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Q1) In consumer psychology, the term shrinkage refers to ____.
A) the tendency for consumers to devalue products once they own them
B) the tendency for consumers to overanalyze, and over-justify, their purchases
C) the tendency for consumers to devalue products that they consider but don't end up buying
D) a company's loss of money or inventory as a result of shoplifting or employee theft
Q2) The importance of physical location within a store is illustrated by the observation that moving the grocery store deli from the back of the store to the front increase sales by ____.
A) 50%
B) 100%
C) 200%
D) 300%
Q3) Which explanation of conspicuous consumption fits with terror management theory?
A) Acquisition of material things helps humans feel their existence extends beyond death.
B) Purchasing things lowers arousal and reduces terror.
C) Purchasing things increases arousal and helps one combat terror.
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D) Acquisition of material things help a person establish their social identity.
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Chapter 16: Applying Social Psychology to Health
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Q1) _____ applied the concept of homeostasis to the study of human interactions with the environment.
A) Richard Lazarus
B) Walter Cannon
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Carl Rogers
Q2) Which of the following statements best summarizes the cognitive appraisal model of stress developed by Lazarus?
A) Our experience of stress depends on past learning.
B) Our experience of stress depends on how we interpret situations.
C) Our experience of stress depends on cultural norms.
D) Our experience of stress depends on individual personality variables.
Q3) Research has found that one of the strongest, most consistent psychological differences between males and females is with respect to ____.
A) identification of threatening situations
B) physiological responses to stress
C) production of cortisol in response to stress
D) seeking social support
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Chapter 17: Applying Social Psychology to the Workplace
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Q1) The critical incident technique (CIT) uses critical incidents or behaviors that discriminate between ____ behavior for someone performing the job.
A) successful and unsuccessful
B) legal and illegal
C) excellent and poor
D) ethical and unethical
Q2) You are taking a test for a job application as a brick layer. The test requires you to answer questions about science fiction literature. This test lacks ____.
A) reliability
B) validity
C) leadership
D) job analysis
Q3) 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
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Chapter 18: Applying Social Psychology to the Law
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Q1) When criminal psychologists distinguish between system variables and estimator variables as two sources of inaccuracy in eyewitness reports and identifications, they are distinguishing between variables ____.
A) that are under the control of the criminal justice system versus those that are not B) that are static versus those that are present only at the scene of the crime
C) that are relatively objective versus those that are subjective D) that are based on memory versus those based on inference
Q2) Delaying a trial is known as a(n) ____.
A) change of venue
B) continuance
C) foil
D) blank lineup
Q3) When instructions to individuals viewing the lineup include a warning that the perpetrator may not be in the lineup, there is a(n) ____.
A) decrease in the number of correct identifications made by witnesses
B) increase in the number of correct identifications made by witnesses
C) decrease in the number of mistaken identifications made by witnesses
D) increase in the number of mistaken identifications made by witnesses
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Chapter 19: Applying Social Psychology to the Environment
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Q1) In terms of personal space, the typical social distance is ____.
A) less than 1 foot
B) 1 to 2 feet
C) 2 to 4 feet
D) 4 to 12 feet
Q2) The term ambient environment refers to the ____.
A) auditory environment (i.e., what we hear)
B) sensory environment in general (i.e., what we hear, see, feel, smell, etc.)
C) environment at a given instant in time
D) "vibe" or "mood" that one feels in one's environment
Q3) Of the following approaches to encouraging people to conserve water and energy, which has been most effective?
A) Education
B) Prompts
C) Simple reasoning
D) Having people make public commitments
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