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Course Introduction
Human Behavior is a multidisciplinary course that explores the various factors influencing how individuals think, feel, and act within different contexts. Through the examination of psychological, biological, social, and cultural perspectives, students gain a foundational understanding of the motives and mechanisms behind human actions. The course covers key topics such as perception, learning, emotion, motivation, personality, and social interaction, encouraging students to critically analyze both individual and group behaviors. By integrating theory with real-world examples, this course fosters a deeper appreciation of the complexity and diversity of human behavior.
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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) Dr. Taylor is conducting a study to test the effect of a new drug on people's ability to concentrate at work. His research sample consists of 100 US adults. During a 14-week period, half of the sample is administered the drug and the other half is administered a placebo, and participants' concentration abilities are continually tracked. In the context of this study, if Dr. Taylor uses random assignment, it means that ____.
A) his study will be high in external validity
B) the 100 adults in his study are likely to be representative of the larger population of interest
C) each research participant has an equal chance of being assigned to each level of the independent variable (e.g., the placebo group or the drug group)
D) his research findings are likely to be statistically significant
Answer: C
Q2) Replication refers to ____.
A) the joint effects of two or more independent variables
B) the technique of meta-analysis
C) repeating an experiment to see if the same results can be obtained
D) an experimental setting seeming like the real-world
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Culture and Nature
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Q1) Suppose that you are in the market for a new car, and are having trouble deciding between two different models. If you ultimately decide to "go with your gut," then you are making a decision ____.
A) as a social animal (rather than a cultural animal)
B) based on the automatic system (rather than the deliberate system)
C) based on nurture (rather than nature)
D) based on the "bad is stronger than good" principle
Answer: B
Q2) Money's relationship with human biology is BEST described as ____.
A) a financial "instinct"
B) one that is programmed into our DNA
C) an innately desirable commodity
D) a development that is too recent to have directly shaped human nature biologically
Answer: D
Q3) Culture is a(n)____________________system involving shared understandings and praxis, enabling people to live together in an organized fashion to get what they need.
Answer: information-based or information based
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Chapter 3: The Self
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Q1) Consider the self-enhancement motive, the consistency motive, and the appraisal motive. According to research, which of these three motives appears to be the strongest when conflicts arise between motives?
A) The self-enhancement motive
B) The self-verification motive
C) The appraisal motive
D) The strongest motive depends on the conflict in question.
Answer: A
Q2) Most social psychologists today view self-presentation as ____.
A) merely a symptom of low self-esteem
B) merely a symptom of narcissism
C) a form of hypocrisy-acting or pretending to be something other than what one really is
D) a basic and important aspect of human social life, used to gain social acceptance
Answer: D
Q3) The part of the self that exerts control and makes choices is called the ____________________.
Answer: agent self.
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Chapter 4: Choices and Actions: The Self in Control
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Q1) Even though Mildred knows that her relationship with her boyfriend is in trouble, she decides not to do anything about it (i.e., she will simply neglect the relationship and let it slowly fall to pieces). Social psychologists would say that her decision to do nothing most reflects ____.
A) the certainty effect
B) the omission bias
C) risk aversion
D) temporal discounting
Q2) Based on the information about suicide in the text, which of the following statements would be most likely to appear in a suicide note?
A) "I don't think I was ever loved as a child."
B) "I think that human beings are born to be evil."
C) "Please be sure that Mom remembers to take the dog to the vet this week."
D) "I bet that World War III will break out any day now."
Q3) Dr. Mischel is conducting an experiment with young children. He tells each child that they have a choice to make: They can have a cookie right now, OR they can wait ten minutes and get two cookies. It appears that Dr. Mischel is measuring the children's capacity to ____________________.
Q4) Suicidal people tend to worry that they will be ____________________to others.
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Chapter 5: Social Cognition
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Q1) Montana and Sarah are playing cards. Montana has a great hand-four aces-while Sarah's hand is just average-a 2 of hearts, a 3 of spades, a 5 of spades, and a 7 of clubs. Even though the statistical probability of both hands is the same, many people (incorrectly) assume that Montana's exact hand is rarer than Sarah's exact hand. This common misconception stems most directly from the ____.
A) base rate fallacy
B) representativeness heuristic
C) availability heuristic
D) false consensus effect
Q2) Recent research suggests that the basic distinction people make in attribution processes is between _____________________ and _____________________ behavior.
Q3) Sometimes people blow on dice when playing a board game to make sure they get the numbers they need to advance in the game. When people believe they can affect the dice by blowing on them they are experiencing the ____.
A) gambler's fallacy
B) illusory correlation
C) conjunction fallacy
D) illusion of control
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Chapter 6: Emotion and Affect
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Q1) Research on happiness and parenting indicates that couples who have children are ____ than couples who do not have children, although ____.
A) happier; this finding is not consistent
B) happier; people expect that having children will make them less happy
C) less happy; this finding is not consistent
D) less happy; people expect that having children will make them happier
Q2) Research on gender differences in empathy suggests that _____ in accurately understanding the emotional states of others.
A) women are quite a bit better
B) women are slightly better
C) there are no gender differences
D) men are quite a bit better
Q3) Daniel Goleman equates ____ with maturity and character.
A) affect balance
B) emotional intelligence
C) positive emotions
D) arousal regulation
Q4) Emotions are inner processes that help promote ____________________ relations.
Q5) Describe the branches, or dimensions, of emotional intelligence.
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Chapter 7: Attitudes, Beliefs and Consistency
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Q1) Research suggests that the mere exposure effect ____.
A) is unique to humans (does not occur among other animals)
B) occurs via the conscious system only
C) is unique to humans (does not occur among other animals) AND occurs via the conscious system only
D) is NOT unique to humans and does NOT occur via the conscious system
Q2) Research on gender and sexuality indicates that ____________________ show less consistency than ____________________ in terms of (a) their stated attitudes about sex and (b) their actual behaviors.
Q3) Iris is a vegetarian, but she ate a steak last night. When would she be most likely to try to rationalize her steak-eating?
A) If she was forced to eat the steak against her will
B) If she was paid a lot of money to eat the steak
C) If she chose to eat the steak and she feels guilty or nervous-regardless of whether she attributes these feelings to the steak-eating
D) If she chose to eat the steak and feels guilty or nervous, AND attributes these feelings to the steak-eating
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) When social psychologists talk about a persuasive communicator as being "trustworthy," they are referring to ____.
A) whether the source will honestly tell you what she or he knows
B) how much the source knows
C) whether the source is a recognized authority in her or her field
D) whether the source is confident and authoritarian
Q2) What does research suggest about the practice of "stealing thunder" (i.e., the practice of revealing potentially incriminating information early on in an argument, before one is forced to do so and before one's opponent has an opportunity to be the one to reveal it, so as to negate its [potentially damaging] impact)?
A) It is almost never effective.
B) It is only effective when audiences are processing information peripherally.
C) It is only effective when audiences are experts in the topic at hand.
D) It is generally very effective.
Q3) The labeling technique is based on ____________________ principles.
Q4) According to the ____________________, children and adolescents are more easily persuaded than adults.
Q5) Describe three strategies for resisting persuasion.
Q6) 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 forgiveness in romantic relationships indicates that ____.
A) forgiveness is not strongly related to relationship satisfaction
B) forgiveness is related to relationship satisfaction differently for men than it is for women
C) people who are relatively forgiving of their partners' transgressions have relatively high relationship satisfaction (regardless of gender)
D) even people who are relatively unforgiving of their partners' transgressions have relatively high relationship satisfaction (regardless of gender)
Q2) The prisoner's dilemma is best described as a(n) ____.
A) zero-sum game
B) non-zero-sum game
C) commons dilemma
D) equity game
Q3) Pluralistic ignorance is MOST likely to occur ____.
A) when you are alone
B) when you are with a group of friends
C) when you are with a close partner
D) when you are with a group of strangers
Q4) ____________________ is going along with the crowd.
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Chapter 10: Aggression and Antisocial Behavior
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Q1) Most social scientists believe that humans are naturally nonviolent, and that society fosters and encourages violence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Given the research on general trends in the relationship between climate and crime (and ignoring absolutely everything else you know about these cities and these crimes), which of the following statements is most likely to be true?
A) There are more attempted murders in London than in Hawaii.
B) There are more murders in London during a warm spring than during a cool spring.
C) There are more identity thefts in San Francisco than in Tokyo.
D) There are more cases of insurance fraud in Moscow than in Dubai.
Q3) Which of the following is a well-known program of aggression research based on the social learning paradigm?
A) Richard Nisbett's "culture of honor" research
B) Muzafer Sherif's "Robber's Cave" research
C) Philip Zimbardo's "Stanford prison" research
D) Albert Bandura's "Bobo doll" research
Q4) Instinct theories argue that aggression is ____________________.
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Chapter 11: Attraction and Exclusion
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Q1) The need to belong drives people to ___.
A) associate with others (only)
B) associate with others and commit to relationships (only)
C) associate with others, commit to relationships, and stay in relationships
D) stay in relationships (only)
Q2) Research on ingratiation has confirmed two themes of interpersonal rewards. Those two themes are ____.
A) giving compliments and communicating often
B) communicating often and doing favors
C) communicating often and looking attractive
D) giving compliments and doing favors
Q3) The novel, The Prince of Tides, portrays the consequences of rejection ____.
A) accurately
B) inaccurately
C) somewhat accurately
D) as leading to romantic failure
Q4) People who are repeatedly ostracized by others over a period of time are relatively likely to develop eating disorders.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Close Relationships: Passion, Intimacy, and Sexuality
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Q1) In recent formulations of attachment theory, researchers have suggested that there are two dimensions involved in attachments. These are ____.
A) security and insecurity
B) security and ambivalence
C) anxiety and aversion
D) avoidance and anxiety
Q2) When a man in a committed relationship meets a desirable new woman, he will likely respond by increasing his commitment to his existing partner.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Couples who are experiencing passionate love tend to have overly positive, idealized views of one another. Research suggests that such views can often ____.
A) help relationships to survive long term
B) interfere with the development of companionate love
C) interfere with the process of disclosure
D) ironically, lead to misunderstandings and conflicts
Q4) Regarding yourself as a good person "as is" is known as
Q5) Is sex better within the context of marriage or when one is single?
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Chapter 13: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations
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Q1) Research has shown that benevolent sexism is ____ for women's cognitive performance than hostile sexism.
A) better
B) the same
C) worse
D) irrelevant to
Q2) According to the textbook, there is/are ____ known peaceful societies in the world.
A) no
B) only one
C) about 5
D) about 25
Q3) Countries that value competition generally have ____ levels of conflict and ____ levels of economic success.
A) higher; higher
B) higher; lower
C) lower; higher
D) lower; lower
Q4) Explain what stereotype threat is, and how it affects performance.
Q5) To what degree are stereotypes accurate?
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Chapter 14: Groups
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Q1) People are more likely to engage in the commons dilemma when ____.
A) they do not communicate with others
B) others are behaving well
C) they are held accountable for their behaviors
D) they have a long-term perspective
Q2) After decades of research on the effect that others have on task performance, social psychologists have concluded that the presence of others ____.
A) almost always improves performance, because it stimulates competition
B) almost always hinders performance, because it elicits evaluation apprehension
C) has mixed effects, because it elicits evaluation apprehension
D) has mixed effects, because it elicits a person's dominant response
Q3) According to your text, who probably laughs the most?
A) Justin, the CEO of a successful business
B) Nicole, the chairman of the board of a bank
C) Amber, the secretary at a large corporation
D) Jena, a famous actress with lots of political clout
Q4) What are the qualities of leaders that are "toxic" for their followers?
Q5) Social loafing is also known as the free rider problem.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Applying Social Psychology to Consumer Behavior
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Q1) How do grocery store advertising, grocery store format (layout), and grocery store location influence consumers' decisions about where to shop?
A) All three affect behavior.
B) Interestingly, location has very little impact.
C) Interestingly, format (layout) has the strongest impact of the three.
D) Advertising is the only one of these variables to have an impact.
Q2) Tim is simultaneously talking on his cell phone, checking an instant message, listening to a CD, and browsing the web. Consumer psychologists would say that he is engaged in ____.
A) time shrinkage
B) lateral cycling
C) polychronic activity
D) multilateral activity
Q3) The term ____ refers to selling or giving a previously purchased product to someone else to use for its intended purpose.
A) lateral cycling
B) e-commerce
C) social currency
D) guerilla consumption
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Chapter 16: Applying Social Psychology to Health
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Q1) 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.
Q2) People who experience ____ show a disease-prone personality.
A) low levels of anxiety
B) long-term negative feelings
C) high self-esteem
D) chronic positive affect
Q3) Health psychology is an interdisciplinary subspecialty of psychology best described as dedicated to ____.
A) promoting health
B) promoting and maintaining health
C) preventing illness
D) promoting and maintaining health, and preventing and treating illness
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Chapter 17: Applying Social Psychology to the Workplace
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Q1) 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
Q2) The process organizations use to identify potential employees for a job is ____.
A) job analysis
B) organizational socialization
C) recruitment
D) performance review
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) Of the following, which personality trait is most predictive of whether people are lenient versus punitive in jury trial voting?
A) Introversion/extroversion
B) Authoritarianism
C) Self-monitoring
D) Need for closure
Q2) System variables that influence eyewitness identifications in criminal lineups are most analogous to ____ that influence participant behavior in social psychological experiments.
A) interactions
B) confounds
C) demand characteristics
D) confirmation biases
Q3) 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) Confronting people with the inconsistency between their attitudes and behaviors is a strategy for promoting behavior change known as ____.
A) scarcity manipulation
B) cognitive control
C) hypocrisy induction
D) the one-person trap
Q2) Suppose that you are a ninth grade teacher, and you are trying to get your students to conserve more water and energy in their daily lives. Which of the following approaches is likely to be least successful?
A) Educate them about the need for conservation.
B) Make use of prompts, or reminders, at times when they tend to be wasteful.
C) Have them make public commitments to their parents that they will be less wasteful.
D) Have them make public commitments to their peers that they will be less wasteful.
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