Group Dynamics Review Questions
Course Introduction
Group Dynamics explores the psychological processes and social influences that shape interactions within small groups. This course examines theories and research related to group formation, structure, roles, norms, leadership, decision-making, conflict, and cohesion. Students will analyze how individuals' behavior is affected by group membership and how groups can influence outcomes in both personal and professional contexts. Through case studies, experiential exercises, and collaborative projects, the course aims to develop a deeper understanding of effective group functioning and the skills necessary for successful participation and leadership in group settings.
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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) The purposes of the oral or written statement participants receive at the end of a psychological study include _____.
A) explaining to them what informed consent actually is
B) ensuring that they receive appropriate compensation
C) reducing or eliminating harm caused by their participation
D) allowing them to refuse to allow their data to be used
Answer: C
Q2) Suppose that you participate in an experiment that is designed to examine the effects of sadness on creativity. Even though the sadness manipulation used by the experimenters is very artificial, you nonetheless experience deep sadness during the study. Thus, the study was apparently high in ____________________.
Answer: experimental realism
Q3) Dr. Gem studies individual differences in introversion (a trait similar to shyness). Dr. Gem is MOST likely a _____ psychologist.
A) social
B) personality
C) clinical
D) developmental
Answer: B
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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) Research indicates that humans and other primates (e.g., chimpanzees) evolved to care more about the future than about immediate costs and benefits.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The two ways of prolonging life are mutation and reproduction.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Self
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Q1) Introspection refers to the process by which a person ____.
A) compares himself or herself to cultural standards of morality
B) takes stock of his or her strengths or weaknesses
C) seeks to regulate, control, or modify his or her behavior
D) examines the contents of his or her mind and mental states
Answer: D
Q2) When it comes to intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation, research on humans and other species has found that ____.
A) both forms of motivation are common in humans and other species
B) both forms of motivation are common in humans but completely unheard of in other species
C) both forms of motivation are common in humans but other species seem to mainly be driven by intrinsic motivation
D) both forms of motivation are common in humans but other species seem to mainly be driven by extrinsic motivation
Answer: C
Q3) The idea that people learn about themselves from interacting with other people is called the ________________.
Answer: looking-glass self.
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Chapter 4: Choices and Actions
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Q1) In terms of their emotional state, the primary emotional state of people who are suicidal is a sort of ____.
A) sadness or hopelessness
B) anger or fury
C) shame, regret, or guilt
D) emotional numbness
Q2) When pursuit of a goal has been interrupted, and people experience automatic, intrusive thoughts about that goal, they are said to be experiencing the ________________ effect.
Q3) Suicide rates tend to be higher in places that generally have ____ climates. In general, suicide rates also tend to be higher during the ____.
A) good; spring and summer months
B) good; winter months
C) bad; spring and summer months
D) bad; winter months
Q4) How are habits related to the different processing systems humans use?
Q5) The existence of absolute free will is undisputed amongst social psychologists.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Social Cognition
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Q1) Which statement best illustrates a gain-framed appeal?
A) Working out daily will help you maintain good health.
B) Failure to work out daily will risk health consequences.
C) People who don't work out enough tend to struggle with their weight.
D) If you don't work out, you might lose muscle mass.
Q2) Erica intensely dislikes a particular coworker and seems only to notice her negative qualities. For example, when the coworker is late for work but happens to bring in donuts, Erica assumes that the coworker brought donuts because he knew he was going to be late and is trying to deflect attention his lateness. It does not occur to her that her coworker is late because he stopped to buy donuts. Erica's conclusions illustrate ____. A) confirmation bias
B) the gambler's fallacy
C) the conjunction fallacy
D) illusory correlation
Q3) People tend to want to explore most issues thoroughly before making decisions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Once a dieter has slipped up and indulged at the Dairy Queen, he or she is likely to engage in ________________.
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Chapter 6: Emotion and Affect
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Q1) The degree to which a person experiences the variety and relative abundance of human emotions is referred to as ____.
A) emovariability
B) emorange
C) emodiversity
D) emoflexibility
Q2) While guilt might say, ____, shame would say, ____.
A) "I did a bad thing", "I am a bad person"
B) "I am a bad person", "I did a bad thing"
C) "I hate myself", "other people hate me"
D) "other people hate me", "I hate myself"
Q3) The term ________________ is used to refer to the frequency of one's positive emotions minus the frequency of one's negative emotions.
Q4) Research suggests that people are speedier and more accurate at problem-solving when they are in negative moods as opposed to positive moods.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Emotions are inner processes that help promote ________________ relations.
Q6) How does disgust act as a behavioral immune system?
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Chapter 7: Attitudes, Beliefs and Consistency
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Q1) The so-called A-B problem refers to the fact that there is often a weak relationship between people's ___.
A) implicit and explicit attitudes
B) affects and behaviors
C) attitudes and behaviors
D) affects and cognitions
Q2) Research on gender differences in sex-related attitudes and behaviors indicates that ____ show relatively more attitude-behavior consistency, and that this is largely owing to the fact that ____.
A) men; men tend to be the initiators of sexual activity
B) men; men's sexual responses are less context-dependent than women's
C) women; women tend to be the initiators of sexual activity
D) women; women's sexual responses are less context-dependent than men's
Q3) Who is the most likely to be anxious, depressed, and/or low in self-esteem?
A) June, who believes she will be a doctor someday
B) Marsha, who is a devout Hindu
C) Holly, who believes in UFOs
D) Brendan, who holds Christian beliefs but doesn't practice them much
Q4) The ease with which an attitude comes to mind is called ________________.
Q5) Explain the conditions under which the mere exposure effect holds true.
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Chapter 8: Social Influence and Persuasion
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Q1) Social psychologists distinguish between two major routes to persuasion: central and peripheral. As described in the textbook, these terms are more or less interchangeable with the terms ____.
A) systematic and heuristic processing, respectively
B) implicit and explicit reception, respectively
C) unelaborated and elaborated processing, respectively
D) normative and informational persuasion, respectively
Q2) Research suggests that there are two main factors that make a source credible: ____.
A) trustworthiness and likeability
B) likeability and expertise
C) expertise and trustworthiness
D) similarity and expertise
Q3) Which term best describes an attempt to change a person's mind?
A) induction
B) manipulation
C) persuasion
D) assimilation
Q4) Describe three strategies for resisting persuasion.
Q5) Who are convert communicators, and when and why are they especially persuasive?
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Chapter 9: Prosocial Behavior: Doing Whats Best for Others
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Q1) McKelvey sees her cousin crying because she has lost a toy. She feels sad because her cousin feels sad. McKelvey is experiencing which emotional response?
A) reciprocity
B) empathy
C) sympathy
D) distress
Q2) As discussed in the text, when people encounter situations in which their help might be needed, there are five major steps they pass through before ultimately deciding to render help (or not render help). At which step(s) can the presence of others interfere (and reduce the likelihood of helping)?
A) Steps 1, 2, and 3 (noticing the situation, interpreting the situation as an emergency, and taking responsibility)
B) Step 3 (taking responsibility for providing help)
C) Steps 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (noticing the situation, interpreting the situation as an emergency, and taking responsibility, deciding how to help, and helping)
D) Steps 1, 3, and 4 (noticing the situation, taking responsibility, and deciding how to help)
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Chapter 10: Aggression and Antisocial Behavior
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Q1) The term ____ refers to the number of people in a given area.
A) density
B) mass
C) packing
D) crowding
Q2) What is the intended purpose of an honor killing?
A) to restore the family's honor from disgrace brought on by a family member's actions
B) to get back at a person outside of the family who has aggressed against the family
C) to increase a family's socioeconomic standing
D) to harm a person that a family has come to hate intensely
Q3) Describe the evidence that suggests that poor self-control is the primary cause of crime.
Q4) According to research, which behavior will result in the highest levels of decreased aggression?
A) eating fewer fried foods and sugary foods
B) eating more protein and taking vitamins
C) eating fewer fried foods and sugary foods, and taking vitamins
D) eating more protein and starchy products
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Chapter 11: Interpersonal Attraction and Rejection
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Q1) Which of the following is TRUE about how waist-to-hip ratio affects judgments of attractiveness?
A) Men tend to prefer women with a ratio of .7, but women tend to not make judgments about men's attractiveness on this basis.
B) Men tend to prefer women with a ratio of .9, but women tend to not make judgments about men's attractiveness on this basis.
C) Men tend to prefer women with a ratio of .7, but women tend to prefer men with a ratio of .9.
D) Both men and women prefer a ratio of .9.
Q2) According to the text, the main reason for social rejection among adults is ____. A) aggression
B) social deviance
C) physical weakness
D) lack of physical attractiveness
Q3) According to the "________________" effect, people tend to assume that physically attractive people are superior to others in terms of a wide range of factors-intelligence, popularity, sexual warmth, etc.
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Chapter 12: Close Relationships: Passion, Intimacy, and Sexuality
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Q1) Describe how both personal and situational characteristics influence one's experience of jealousy.
Q2) Andre really believes in himself and doesn't suffer much in the way of social anxiety. Yet he has a hard time trusting his girlfriend (even though she has given him no reason for this). His girlfriend feels frustrated with the relationship, because Andre seems so aloof and far away. Andre probably has a ____ attachment.
A) secure
B) preoccupied
C) dismissing avoidant
D) fearful avoidant
Q3) Sternberg has concluded that the most common element of his triangular love theory across relationships is ____.
A) passion
B) intimacy
C) commitment
D) romance
Q4) The sexually arousing power of a new partner is called the Coolidge effect.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations
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Q1) Suppose that Aretha grew up in New York, but currently works in California as a Human Resources Director. While she tries to be unbiased when reviewing job applications, she knows that she has a tendency to favor New York applicants over other applicants. That is, she tends to engage in ____.
A) the discontinuity effect
B) ingroup favoritism
C) stigma by association
D) the minimal group effect
Q2) Jennifer is a student at UCLA. When asked to describe the average UCLA student, she says it is almost impossible to do so because "there are so many different kinds of people at UCLA; the diversity is really amazing." By contrast, when asked to describe the average USC student, Jennifer says: "That's easy; they're all almost exactly the same."
Social psychologists would say that Jennifer is displaying what is known as the ____.
A) discontinuity effect
B) scapegoat effect
C) minimal group effect
D) outgroup homogeneity bias
Q3) Explain what stereotype threat is, and how it affects performance.
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Chapter 14: Groups
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Q1) Research suggests that one of the reasons groups may make foolish decisions is that _____.
A) members may self-censor
B) being in groups lowers morale
C) group members socialize too much
D) only mediocre employees participate in groups
Q2) As discussed in the text, it is quite possible that the deeply rooted human impulse to form social groups was partly stimulated by competition among different groups.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What happens when the process of talking about a dilemma results in moving the group toward a more extreme view?
A) social loafing
B) the bad apple effect
C) the commons dilemma
D) the risky shift
Q4) Social psychologists have coined the term ____________________ to refer to loss of self-awareness and loss of individual accountability in a group.
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Chapter 15: Applying Social Psychology to Consumer Behavior
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Q1) 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
Q2) Many consumers today are feeling time compression, leading them to select products that will alleviate time pressure. In consumer psychology terminology, this phenomenon is called ____.
A) time poverty
B) the commons dilemma
C) polychronic poverty
D) time shrinkage
Q3) Research indicates that the presence of credit card stimuli is associated with ____.
A) having a marked preference for lower prices
B) making quicker decisions to spend
C) delaying decisions to purchase an item
D) having a negative view of credit card use
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Chapter 16: Applying Social Psychology to Health
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Q1) People have attitudes and perceptions of social norms, which affect intentions, which affect behaviors. This, in a nutshell, is the ____.
A) theory of planned action
B) general adaptation syndrome
C) cognitive appraisal model
D) transtheoretical model
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) The ____ model is a value-expectancy theory in which the values and expectations have been reformulated from abstract concepts into health-related behaviors and concepts.
A) planned behavior
B) health belief
C) cognitive appraisal
D) transtheoretical
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Chapter 17: Applying Social Psychology to the Workplace
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Q1) The process by which members become absorbed into the culture of the organization is ____.
A) organizational climate
B) organizational culture
C) organizational socialization
D) workforce planning
Q2) Research indicates that ____ of U.S. professionals indicated that a positive online reputation influences their decision to hire job candidates.
A) 71%
B) 86%
C) 91%
D) 99%
Q3) Research on work modes and office design suggests that ____ employees may want an open meeting space with in-office amenities like beverage stations.
A) collaborating
B) focusing
C) learning
D) achieving
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Chapter 18: Applying Social Psychology to the Law
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Q1) Which of the following best summarizes current thinking on "recovered memories"?
A) This is a complicated topic, involving numerous tradeoffs, about which there are few clear answers.
B) "Recovered memories" are real, though the criminal justice system has been slow to acknowledge their legitimacy.
C) There does not appear to be any legitimacy to the notion of "recovered memories"-despite the commonality with which they allegedly occurred in the 1980's and 1990's.
D) "Recovered memories" are now widely recognized by both psychologists and the criminal justice system as being real and legitimate.
Q2) Delaying a trial is known as a(n) ____.
A) change of venue
B) continuance
C) foil
D) blank lineup
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Chapter 19: Applying Social Psychology to the Environment
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Q1) 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
Q2) 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
Q3) 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
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