Cultural Psychology
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Course Introduction
Cultural Psychology explores how cultural contexts shape and influence human behavior, cognition, and emotion. Emphasizing the dynamic interaction between culture and psychological processes, this course examines how factors such as language, values, social norms, and traditions impact identity, development, perception, motivation, and mental health. Students will engage with cross-cultural research, discuss the implications of cultural diversity, and critically analyze the universality and variability of psychological phenomena, broadening their understanding of the role culture plays in shaping individual and collective experiences.
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Social Psychology 7th Australia Edition by Graham M. Vaughan
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Chapter 1: Introducing Social Psychology
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Q1) Social psychologists study behaviour because
A) it is more interesting than studying people's thoughts and feelings
B) they want to be more integrated with behavioural psychology
C) behaviour can be observed and measured
D) you can tell everything about a person based on their behaviour
Answer: C
Q2) A crucial aspect of the scientific method is that it
A) produces data that are logically derived
B) tests a theory by how it corresponds with fact
C) is based on a history of continuous development
D) leads to results that are published in a reputable source
Answer: B
Q3) Which set of theories proposes that people behave based on socially constructed group norms that influence us in specific contexts?
A) Personality theories
B) Collectivist theories
C) Behaviourist theories
D) Evolutionary social psychological theories
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Social Cognition and Social Thinking
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Q1) Let us say that you plan to be a nurse.You might picture yourself with a white coat,comfortable shoes,and a little badge on your lapel.These ideas contribute to your knowledge structure of being a 'nurse',and constitute an instance of a(n)
A) fuzzy set
B) schema
C) attribution
D) value
Answer: B
Q2) We may be more reliant on schematic processing to make a quick decision or form a quick impression when
A) we are under performance pressure, e.g., if there is a time pressure to make a decision
B) we are under increased levels of anxiety, or we are distracted
C) the costs of being wrong are high
D) both A and B
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Attribution and Social Explanation
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Q1) An example of the false consensus effect would be when a
A) teacher gives an inflated grade to a favourite student
B) novice tennis player sees a wonderful sporting future after just serving an ace when playing against their coach
C) city mayor wants more skyscrapers on the main street, arguing that this is what the citizens want
D) child blames you (in your innocence) for spilling drink on their painting
Answer: C
Q2) Elaborated explanations of unfamiliar and complex phenomena that transform them into the familiar and simple and are shared among group members are referred to as
A) scripts
B) the collective conscious
C) stereotypes
D) social representations
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Self and Identity
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Q1) Tara feels insecure.You advise her to refrain from comparing herself with people who she thinks are 'superior'.Your advice is a key point in
A) Higgins' self-discrepancy theory
B) Tesser's self-evaluation maintenance model
C) Festinger's social comparison theory
D) Bem's self-perception theory
Q2) Studies of African American children carried out before and after the Second World War showed that
A) African American children had lower self-esteem than White children
B) African American children were more positive towards White children than African American children
C) White children were more positive towards White children than African American children
D) All of the above
Q3) According to Festinger people learn about themselves by
A) comparing themselves with others
B) putting their past behind them
C) playing up their strengths rather than their weaknesses
D) ignoring the comments of others and looking to the future
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Chapter 5: Attitudes
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Q1) Despite its appeal,the three-component model presents a problem by prejudging a link between attitude and ___________.
A) behaviour
B) affect
C) self-esteem
D) cognition
Q2) Collectively elaborated explanations of unfamiliar and complex phenomena that transform them into a familiar and simple form are referred to as
A) social schemas
B) paradigms
C) traditions
D) social representations
Q3) An integrated set of beliefs is referred to as a(n)
A) ideology
B) paradigm
C) mood
D) attitude
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Chapter 6: Persuasion and Attitude Change
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Q1) You announce in your University tutorial class that you cannot find one of the articles on the course's 'recommended reading list' that is particularly relevant for your upcoming essay.One of your classmates says that they have an extra copy and gives it to you to keep.After the tutorial,this same classmate comes up to you and asks if they can borrow your lecture notes from the last three lectures.In accordance with the ____________ you feel obliged to give them your lecture notes.
A) reciprocity principle
B) sufficiency threshold
C) 'nice-guy' principle
D) sleeper effect
Q2) In persuasive communications research,which one of the following is NOT a variable considered to be a 'source' factor?
A) Race
B) Status
C) Expertise
D) Persuasibility
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Chapter 7: Social Influence
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Q1) Kelly is a student.However,she does not socialise with fellow students (as she thinks they are childish)nor does she have lunch at the student cafeteria.Instead,she dresses in suits and has lunch at a nearby café frequented by executive types.The category of 'student group' for her is probably a
A) membership group
B) positive reference group
C) negative reference group
D) both A and C
Q2) In an early study,Allport (1924)noted that,as compared to individuals,people in groups make decisions that are
A) based on a continuum
B) based on previous decisions
C) less extreme
D) less conservative
Q3) In Sherif's autokinetic experiment,people's judgements became
A) a frame of reference
B) polarised
C) more extreme
D) topics for discussion
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Chapter 8: People in Groups
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Q1) The division of a group into different roles that often differ with respect to status and prestige is referred to as
A) ethnomethodology
B) group structure
C) a norm
D) stereotypical behaviour
Q2) According to the drive theory of social facilitation
A) arousal is a learned response to the presence of others
B) there is a decrease of arousal in the presence of others
C) both social inhibition as well as social facilitation can occur, depending on which response is dominant
D) an increase of arousal leads to social facilitation if the dominant response is incorrect
Q3) Enyi is a brilliant cellist and tonight she is playing at a concert.According to the distraction/conflict theory,she will
A) experience attentional conflict
B) worry about being distracted and make errors
C) wonder what the audience thinks of her
D) all of the above
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Chapter 9: Leadership and Decision Making
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Q1) Which one is NOT a factor that affects a leader's situational control?
A) Task structure
B) Leader-member relations
C) Relations between members
D) Position power
Q2) By adopting a moderately situational perspective on leadership,researchers subscribe to the assumption that
A) different situations demand different leadership properties
B) leaders can sometimes change to accommodate changed circumstances
C) in a given context, an effective leader is one best equipped to help the group achieve its goals
D) all of the above
Q3) The decisions taken by juries are
A) capable of weeding out any errors of individual jury members
B) based on the best possible method for getting at the truth
C) prone to decision-making deficiencies, such as group polarisation and groupthink
D) more accurate than those of the average individual
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Chapter 10: Prejudice and Discrimination
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Q1) We can detect modern forms of racism by using A) structured interviews
B) double-blind designs
C) unobtrusive measures
D) either Thurstone or Likert scales
Q2) Altemeyer has noted that conventionalism,and authoritarianism with elements of both aggression and submission,is called
A) right-wing authoritarianism
B) dogmatism
C) closed-mindedness
D) left-wing authoritarianism
Q3) The subjective experience of stigma hinges on two factors:
A) predictability and controllability
B) visibility/concealability and controllability
C) visibility/concealability and predictability
D) visibility/concealability and valence
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Chapter 11: Intergroup Behaviour
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Q1) The social dilemma which states that 'cooperation by all benefits all,but competition by all harms all' is referred to as
A) the free-rider effect
B) the commons dilemma
C) the all for one, one for all effect
D) social unrest
Q2) Sam joins a psychology study group at the start of semester.Each week the group members share the notes they took during classes,as well as interesting articles they have found.However,each week Sam claims to have been too sick or busy during the week to go to class or to take any notes.As such,Sam takes a copy of everyone else's notes from the study group but never contributes anything to the group himself.This is an example of
A) the free-rider effect
B) relative deprivation
C) the commons dilemma
D) all of the above
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Chapter 12: Aggression
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Q1) Madeline is watching a movie depicting a violent gang 'rumble'.While viewing this,other semantically related thoughts automatically and unconsciously come into her head such as kicking,punching and shooting a gun.This process is referred to as
A) observational learning
B) priming
C) social learning
D) the weapons effect
Q2) Charlie is in a big group of kids at a party and they are all wearing fancy masks.Charlie is likely to become
A) deindividuated
B) violent
C) dehumanised
D) frustrated
Q3) Which of the following is NOT correlated with higher levels of aggression?
A) Narcissism
B) Poor frustration tolerance
C) Child abuse
D) High self-esteem
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Chapter 13: Prosocial Behaviour
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Q1) People who are reluctant to help others are often themselves victims of A) fear of social blunders
B) having being caught in a reality programme
C) childhood abuse
D) low self-esteem
Q2) Barry is a macho type,and was not sympathetic when reading a police report about a young woman being hospitalised after a sexual assault at a gang party.'She would have had it coming to her',he thinks.This is an example of
A) the just-world hypothesis
B) new-look prejudice
C) a normative influence
D) the modelling effect
Q3) According to Piliavin's bystander-calculus model,time and effort are A) costs of helping
B) positively correlated
C) crucial for labelling the arousal
D) not dealt with adequately
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Chapter 14: Attraction and Close Relationships
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Q1) People use various cognitive tactics to maintain a close relationship.They may A) play up their partner's virtues and play down their faults
B) work to match their view that their partner is actually close to ideal
C) expect less from their partner
D) all of the above
Q2) Gangestad and colleagues (2000)conducted a study examining the types of traits that women find attractive in men.They found that
A) women preferred the smell of t-shirts that had been worn by symmetrical men
B) women preferred the smell of t-shirts that had been worn by non-symmetrical men
C) women only preferred the smell of t-shirts of symmetrical men when they were ovulating
D) none of the above
Q3) Which of the following is not a major attachment style?
A) Avoidant
B) Passionate
C) Anxious
D) Secure
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Chapter 15: Language and Communication
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Q1) Visual dominance behaviour refers to
A) the tendency to make eye-contact with as many people as possible
B) the tendency to gaze fixedly at a lower-status speaker
C) having the ability to see more than others in a crowded area
D) none of the above
Q2) Communication is social because
A) it involves an interrelationship between people
B) communication is a means to influence others
C) people are influenced by communication
D) all of the above
Q3) People's attitudes towards others based on their speech style have commonly been investigated using
A) ethnolinguistics
B) the bogus pipeline technique
C) the matched-guise technique
D) matching to standard
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Chapter 16: Culture
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Q1) Kitayama and her colleagues (2004)found differences between Japanese and American participants in their experience of cognitive dissonance such that
A) Japanese participants appear to only feel dissonance when social cues are active (e.g., becoming aware of their peer's opinions when making a decision)
B) American participants appear to only feel dissonance when social cues are active (e.g., becoming aware of their peer's opinions when making a decision)
C) Japanese participants appear to be much more likely to experience dissonance in a variety of situations compared to American participants
D) American participants appear to be much more likely to experience dissonance in a variety of situations compared to Japanese participants
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of Fiske's models of a social relationship?
A) Authority ranking
B) Goal sharing
C) Communal sharing
D) Market pricing
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