Interpersonal Relations
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Course Introduction
Interpersonal Relations explores the dynamics of human interaction within personal, social, and professional contexts. The course examines foundational theories of communication, perception, and relationship development, focusing on how individuals form, maintain, and manage relationships. Students will analyze issues such as conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, effective listening, nonverbal communication, and cultural influences on relationships. Through case studies, discussions, and practical exercises, participants will develop skills to enhance their interpersonal effectiveness and apply strategies to foster positive and constructive connections in various settings.
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Social Psychology 6th Canadian Edition by Aronson
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Social Psychology
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Q1) When social psychologists want to test their hunches about why people help others,they are most likely to
A) ask their grandmothers.
B) conduct an experiment.
C) read philosophy.
D) look at social factors.
E) look at what kindergarteners are taught about helping
Answer: B
Q2) Jamal was confused by his sister's relationship with her boyfriend.They just didn't seem to have anything in common."Oh well," Jamal decided,"I guess opposites really do attract." Jamal's explanation is an example of A) philosophy.
B) folk wisdom.
C) social psychology.
D) rationalization.
E) sociology.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Methodology
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Q1) Assume that instead of conducting experiments,Latané and Darley had used a correlational method to study the relation between the number of bystanders who witness an emergency and how quickly a victim receives help.Assume that the correlational data were compatible with results from experiments: the more bystanders,the longer it took bystanders to help.What type of correlation is this?
A) a nonlinear correlation
B) a zero correlation
C) a positive correlation
D) a spurious correlation
E) a negative correlation
Answer: C
Q2) Experimenters who value external validity want their findings to generalize across ________ and ________.
A) experiments; time
B) people; situations
C) people; experiments
D) observers; situations
E) time; situations
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Social Cognition
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Q1) Recall Victoria Medvec and her colleagues' (1995)study of the emotions experienced by Olympic athletes who won bronze and silver medals.If silver medalists out-performed bronze medalists,why were they less happy?
A) There is a positive correlation between talent and competitiveness.
B) It was easier for silver medalists to imagine winning the gold medal, whereas bronze medalists could imagine not winning a medal at all.
C) Bronze medalists were grateful simply to have the opportunity to compete.
D) Silver medalists had their sights set on gold, as do most "favoured" competitors.
E) Bronze medalists did not think they were going to win anything.
Answer: B
Q2) According to the authors,two ways that traits about others can become accessible are
A) automatic activity and past experience.
B) priming and attitude retrieval.
C) past experience and priming.
D) attitude retrieval and automatic activity.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Social Perception
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Q1) On your birthday,you arrive home and are overjoyed to find a large bouquet of flowers from your best friend.Your eyes grow wide and a broad smile crosses your face.You laugh in delight.This example best illustrates _______ as a primary use of nonverbal behaviour.
A) expressing emotion
B) universality
C) communicating one's personality traits
D) facilitating verbal communication
E) conveying attitudes
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a conclusion from research about gender differences in nonverbal behaviour?
A) Females are more likely than males to mimic other people's smiles.
B) It is easier to detect angry expressions on male faces than on female faces.
C) Subjects were more accurate in detecting happy expressions on female faces than on male faces.
D) A smile is often decoded as pride, especially on a male face.
E) The costs of decoding facial expressions inaccurately will depend on the gender of encoder and decoder.
Q3) What are self-serving attributions and why do people make them?
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Chapter 5: The Self Understanding Ourselves in a Social Context
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Q1) Wilson and Ross have shown that comparing our past self with our current self is
A) a useful technique for boosting self-esteem.
B) a poor technique for impression management.
C) useful for introspection and self-awareness.
D) useful for impression management.
E) a useful technique for recall of autobiographical memories.
Q2) _______ posits that we learn about our own abilities and attitudes by comparing ourselves to other people.
A) Social comparison theory
B) Self-verification theory
C) Self-perception theory
D) Esteem enhancement theory
E) The notion of the looking glass self
Q3) _______ refers to the desire to engage in an activity because we enjoy it,not because we expect external rewards.
A) Intrinsic motivation
B) Hedonic motivation
C) The overjustification effect
D) Extrinsic motivation
E) Reward motivation
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Chapter 6: Attitudes and Attitude Change
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Q1) Why would a dissonance theorist joke that no decisions feel like good ones,so we have to convince ourselves that they are?
Q2) You've just learned that your younger brother has begun having sex.You are concerned about his health and the health of his partner.Because abstinence doesn't seem reasonable to expect,you have decided to have a serious talk with him.What is the best thing to do?
A) Instill enough fear into him to get his attention and then explain where to get condoms and how to use them.
B) Describe in vivid detail the ravages of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases to scare him into safe sex practices.
C) Instill enough fear in him to get his attention and then give him a condom.
D) Talk to him about the odds that he will contract the disease and discuss national statistics about AIDS.
E) Buy him a book about responsible sex at the local bookstore and mark the appropriate pages with a condom.
Q3) An attitude can exist at two levels: implicit and explicit.Define an attitude at each level and explain the distinctions between the two.
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Chapter 7: Conformity
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Q1) According to Dominic Packer (2008),at which point in the Milgram experiment is the participant most likely to disobey authority?
A) when the learner moans in pain
B) when the participant learns that he has to administer electrical shocks to the learner
C) when the learner asks to be released from the experiment
D) when the learner mentions his heart condition
E) when the learner is no longer responding
Q2) Rachel is attending Catholic mass for the first time with her best friend Maria.Rachel is unfamiliar with when to sit,when to kneel,or when to stand,and doesn't know when to respond to what the priest says and when to remain silent.When it is time for parishioners to receive Communion,Rachel looks quizzically to Maria,who silently shakes her head.Rachel remains seated while the rest of the congregation files toward the altar.This situation best exemplifies
A) informational social influence.
B) the power of cultural norms.
C) public social acceptance.
D) a crisis of conversion.
E) normative social influence.
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Chapter 8: Group Processes
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Q1) Luke and Laura have been dating off and on for years and have finally decided to break it off for good.Which of the following best illustrates an integrative solution to their dilemma of dividing up their possessions?
A) They decide to randomly divide their possessions in half and then flip a coin to see who gets which half.
B) They decide to split the possessions strictly by monetary value.
C) Laura, the music lover of the two, gets the stereo, while Luke, the gourmet chef, gets all of the fancy pots and pans.
D) They agree to let Pedro, a mutual friend, mediate the dispute and decide on the fairness of the negotiations.
E) They agree to flip a coin and let the winner choose to take the ten items he or she most wants.
Q2) Social facilitation is most likely to occur when
A) individual efforts cannot be assessed.
B) the task is simple and well-learned.
C) the task is difficult and the individual efforts can be assessed.
D) the presence of others relaxes you.
E) the task is difficult and involving.
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Chapter 9: Interpersonal Attraction
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Q1) People from Asian cultures are more likely to be concerned that _______________ than North Americans.
A) their romantic relationship does not disrupt the existing family network
B) their spouse be a virgin when they marry
C) they are exclusive with their romantic partner
D) they are adhering to strict equity norms
E) they have equal exchange in their relationships
Q2) Richard Moreland and Scott Beach (1992)had a confederate attend large university classes for a systematically varied number of class sessions.In keeping with the mere exposure effect,when unsuspecting students in those classes were later shown photos of the confederate,they liked her best when she had
A) talked more in class.
B) attended more classes.
C) worn short skirts.
D) challenged the professor.
E) worn their school colours.
Q3) What is the propinquity effect and what is the psychological mechanism underlying this effect?
Q4) In what sense is the concept of romantic love culture-specific?
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Chapter 10: Prosocial Behaviour
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Q1) Arthur Beaman and his colleagues (1978)exposed some students to a lecture on bystander intervention research and other students to a lecture on an unrelated topic.Two weeks later
A) students exposed to the lecture on helping were more likely than others to help, even in the presence of an unresponsive confederate.
B) the students had forgotten what they learned, suggesting that education is not beneficial in increasing helping.
C) students who did poorly on a test were more likely to help, independent of the lecture they heard.
D) students who did well on a test were less likely to help, independent of the lecture they heard.
E) students who did well on a test were more likely to help, independent of the lecture they heard.
Q2) The crowded sidewalk is coated with ice.You feel a sharp pain and hear a cracking sound when you fall.You know that you've broken your leg.How might you overcome the bystander effect to ensure that you get help from passersby?
Q3) Do men and women differ in their tendency to help? If so,how?
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Chapter 11: Aggression
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Q1) In which of the following situations is frustration least likely to result in aggression?
A) A woman grabs you and says "Hey, slow down," as you rush to catch your train.
B) The parking lot is full, and a driver pulls around you to take the parking place for which you've been waiting.
C) Your friend sprained her ankle, and cannot help you move, as promised.
D) A telemarketer interrupts your dinner to sell you a magazine subscription.
E) You realize you are being lowballed by a salesperson.
Q2) Biologist Zing Yang Kuo (1961)demonstrated that a cat who had been raised from birth with a rat in the same cage would attack neither that specific rat nor other rats.This research suggests that
A) aggression is species specific.
B) aggressive instincts can be modified through experience.
C) conflict over scarce resources contributes to aggression.
D) aggression is an entirely learned response.
E) aggressive behaviour is not instinctive.
Q3) Explain the role of social conditions in changing the Iroquois tribe from peaceable people to fierce warriors.
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Chapter 12: Prejudice
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Q1) Word,Zanna,and Cooper (1974)tested the self-fulfilling prophecy as it relates to prejudice.They observed the differential behaviours of Anglo-American interviewers who interviewed either African-American or Anglo-American job candidates.They then trained other interviewers to imitate these two different interview styles.When the new interviewers later interviewed Anglo-American job applicants,the applicants who were treated as African-Americans had been treated in the first study
A) became more convinced that their initial negative expectations were confirmed. B) actually behaved in less effective and comfortable ways.
C) confronted the interviewers and terminated the conversation.
D) experienced a loss of self-esteem.
E) were in a negative mood state which lead to improved performance.
Q2) Maria is a member of a chess team.Her ratings of the other members of her team are likely to be __________ her ratings of members of another chess team. A) the same as B) less varied than C) more positive than D) more negative than E) more varied than
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology in Action 1
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Q1) Graham,Koo,and Wilson (2011)asked students to track the number of miles they avoided driving on a website.Those who were keeping track
A) drove more than those who were not keeping track.
B) drove less only if they were also told how much money they had saved on gas.
C) drove less only if they were told about the savings in air pollution.
D) drove less especially when given feedback about financial savings and reduction in air pollution.
E) drove less only if they had intrinsic motivation to reduce driving.
Q2) Jorge does not want to make the effort to reduce energy consumption by turning down the heat and switching to energy-efficient light bulbs.Using social psychology,how might an energy auditor convince Jorge to take these measures?
A) Provide Jorge with local norms for consumption and put a smiley face on his bill every time he meets or betters those norms.
B) Describe how the energy saved will benefit the environment.
C) Offer Jorge an incentive to switch to energy efficient bulbs.
D) Provide detailed statistics on how much he would save on his electricity bills if he switched to energy efficient bulbs.
E) Use a fear-inducing message about the dangers of energy gluttony.
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Chapter 14: Social Psychology in Action 2
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Q1) The amount of stress people experience
A) affects physical health.
B) affects psychological health.
C) affects emotional well-being but does not impact physical health as long as you get enough exercise.
D) impacts physical health, but not necessarily emotional well-being.
E) affects physical and psychological health.
Q2) It is ethically impossible to conduct experimental studies of stress and immune responses in humans to determine whether severe stress actually causes susceptibility to health problems.However,Cacioppo and his colleagues (1998)found that _______.
A) stressors can increase anxiety which is related to infections.
B) major stressors can impact the length of the common cold.
C) even minor stressors can suppress immune responses.
D) people who experience stress are ill more often.
E) loud noises can suppress immune responses.
Q3) Describe the gender differences in coping styles.Discuss why such a difference might exist and what the implications are for health.
Q4) Discuss the importance of message framing in public health announcements.
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Chapter 15: Social Psychology in Action 3
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Q1) Which of the following is a shortcoming of relying on hypnosis to improve eyewitness testimony?
A) People who have been hypnotized become more confident, but not more accurate.
B) Eyewitnesses who have been hypnotized are not allowed to take the stand.
C) Hypnotists can plant false memories through post-hypnotic suggestion.
D) Few eyewitnesses consent to be hypnotized.
E) Eyewitnesses who have been hypnotized often have poorer recall than a non-hypnotized eyewitness.
Q2) Which of the following statements about polygraph tests is true?
A) Even under optimal conditions, they seldom perform better than chance.
B) Despite unreliability, test results are used in court in Canada.
C) Despite unreliability, test results are used in court in most states.
D) Researchers say that there is no scientific basis from which to expect that polygraphs could be extremely accurate.
E) They are better at detecting lies than at detecting truthful responses.
Q3) What is deterrence theory and what does scientific data suggest about the deterrence value of severe punishment such as capital punishment?
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