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Interpersonal Relations Test Preparation
Interpersonal Relations explores the dynamics of human interaction, focusing on the development of effective communication, empathetic listening, conflict management, and relationship-building skills. The course examines theories and models of interpersonal behavior, cultural and social influences on relationships, and practical strategies for enhancing both personal and professional interactions. Through case studies, group activities, and self-reflection, students gain a deeper understanding of themselves and others, fostering healthy, mutually beneficial connections in diverse social and workplace environments.
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THINK Social Psychology 2012 Edition 1st Edition by Kimberley J. Duff
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Chapter 1: What is Social Psychology
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Q1) You are a very fast swimmer but you always perform better during competitions than during practice.This phenomenon refers to:
A) Social facilitation
B) Confirmation bias
C) Social perception
D) Social loafing
Answer: A
Q2) _______________ refers to the illusion that a stationary pinpoint of light in a dark room appears to move and was used in research conducted by _______________.
A) Autokinetic effect; Muzafer Sherif
B) False consensus effect; Muzafer Sherif
C) Autokinetic effect; Gordan Allport
D) False consensus effect; Gordan Allport
Answer: A
Q3) Utilizing the scientific method is one way social psychologists can minimize bias in their research.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Science of Social Psychology
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Q1) You conduct a study on college students and find that there is a positive correlation between exercise and happiness.What can you conclude based on your findings?
A) If college students exercise, they will be happy.
B) An increase in exercise is associated with an increase in happiness.
C) An increase in happiness is associated with an increase in exercise.
D) Both an increase in exercise is associated with an increase in happiness and an increase in happiness is associated with an increase in exercise.
Answer: D
Q2) The measurement of a variable is considered valid when:
A) it produces the same result over and over again
B) it measures what it is supposed to measure
C) it can be supported as true
D) none of the above
Answer: B
Q3) Experimental methods do not allow researchers to identify causes of behaviors and events.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Social Cognition: Thinking About the Social World
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Q1) Automatic and controlled processing are thought to be housed in the same area of the brain.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) You are asked to estimate the work productivity of an employee.If you under or overestimated their productivity as a result of using your own level of productivity as a starting point,this would illustrate _____________.
A) the use of the availability heuristic
B) a self-fulfilling prophecy
C) the use of the representativeness heuristic
D) the use of the anchoring and adjustment heuristic
Answer: D
Q3) Once they are formed,schemas are easy to change.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Q1) ____________ refers to a self-protection strategy in which we are likely to believe that external factors are responsible for situations in which we perform poorly.
A) Self-serving attribution
B) Self-fulfilling prophecy
C) Cognitive distortion bias
D) False consensus
Q2) What is the false consensus effect? What does research suggest is one possible reason we see this effect?
Q3) Rosemarie wants her son Marc to be more motivated to practice the violin on his own.Based on research on the overjustication effect,what would be the LEAST effective way to intrinsically motivate Marc to practice?
A) Surprise him with 20 dollars after he practices.
B) Do not provide him with any reward.
C) Promise to pay him 30 dollars every time he practices the violin.
D) Surprise him with 50 dollars after he practices.
Q4) Briefly define self-perception theory.
Q5) Define the self-concept and describe a way to measure it.Can the self-concept be changed? If so,how?
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Chapter 5: Social Perception: How Do We Perceive Others?
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Q1) Suppose someone robbed a bank.How would Megan,who is from an individualistic culture,be most likely to explain this behavior?
A) The robber is immoral.
B) The robber is stealing to take care of his family.
C) The robber had a poor upbringing and didn't know right from wrong.
D) The robber was negatively influenced by his peers.
Q2) You believe that people who steal are self-interested and dishonest.What type of attribution are you making to explain their behavior?
A) a situational attribution
B) a dispositional attribution
C) an extrinsic attribution
D) an external attribution
Q3) Compared with information offered last,information offered first will:
A) have a shorter-term effect on your impressions.
B) have no effect on your impressions.
C) be processed less thoroughly.
D) have a longer-term effect on your impressions.
Q4) Suppose a child steals money from his sibling.Provide both a dispositional and situational explanation for this behavior.
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Chapter 6: Attitudes: Making Evaluations About the World
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Q1) An attitude that one recognizes and can control is known as a(n)__________ attitude.
A) explicit attitude
B) unconscious attitude
C) implicit attitude
D) internal attitude
Q2) If a researcher wants to assess implicit attitudes,she should probably NOT use a self-report measure because:
A) self-report measures are very difficult to administer to participants.
B) self-report measures are generally unreliable.
C) people are often unaware of their implicit attitudes.
D) self-report measures often take a long time for participants to fill out.
Q3) What did early research by LaPiere (1934)and Corey (1937)suggest about the relationship between attitudes and behavior?
A) It did not suggest anything about the relationship between attitudes and behavior.
B) Behavior predicts attitudes.
C) Attitudes predict behavior.
D) Attitudes do not always predict behavior.
Q4) What is the name-letter effect? What impact might this effect have on your life?
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Chapter 7: The Art and Science of Persuasion
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Q1) Jane is persuaded to buy a new type of ipod because someone at school that she admires and likes just bought one.Jane is being persuaded through:
A) the peripheral route.
B) the central route.
C) controlled processing.
D) deception.
Q2) A message promoting a new tax credit for first time home buyers is more likely to affect people who are thinking about buying their first home because:
A) they have higher outcome-relevant involvement.
B) they have significantly lower outcome-relevant involvement.
C) they have slightly lower outcome-relevant involvement.
D) they have lower outcome-relevant involvement and therefore are more likely to process information through the central route.
Q3) Define the concepts of forewarning and inoculation.Explain how they can be used to help people resist persuasive attempts.
Q4) Would you always want an audience to focus intently on your message? Elaborate on why the use of distraction could enhance the persuasiveness of a message in some cases.
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Chapter 8: Social Influence: Should We Resist?
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Q1) Compare and contrast injunctive and descriptive norms.Elaborate on why Robert Cialdini argued that public service announcements should focus more on injunctive norms than on descriptive norms.Provide research evidence to support his viewpoint.
Q2) Research shows that gender is not a factor in conformity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Increasing the distance from an authority figure would be one way an individual could resist obedience.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which persuasion technique is fueled by the commitment and consistency principle?
A) door-in-the-face technique
B) foot-in-the-door technique
C) lowball technique
D) both the low ball technique and the foot-in-the-door technique
Q5) Describe how gender impacts conformity.In what circumstances are women more likely to conform than men?
Q6) Name and elaborate on two strategies that can be used to resist obedience.
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Chapter 9: The Power of the Group
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Q1) Are you likely to perform better or worse in the presence of other people? Using the theory of social facilitation,explain why at times performance increases and at other times performance decreases in the presence of others.
Q2) Zajonc and colleagues found that cockroaches performed worse in the presence of other cockroaches and better by themselves when tested in a complex maze.Their findings support the idea that _________ leads to increased arousal.
A) distraction
B) evaluation apprehension
C) mere presence
D) task difficulty
Q3) Your basketball team is up by 50 points at halftime only to lose in the final seconds of the game due to your star player missing his free throw shots.If your teammate experienced increased arousal from the potential of being judged by the audience,this could be described as arousal due to:
A) evaluation apprehension.
B) mere presence.
C) decreased self-awareness.
D) distraction.
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Chapter 10: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination:
Causes and Consequences
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Q1) Richard feels women in his company should not get promoted over men but also feels that men should take care of women and support them in achieving certain types of goals.You might describe Richard's contradictory beliefs as:
A) hostile sexism
B) ambivalent sexism
C) prejudice
D) benevolent sexism
Q2) Prejudice is to ___________ as discrimination is to ___________.
A) behavior; attitudes
B) attitudes; behavior
C) emotions; attitudes
D) feelings; attitudes
Q3) Compare and contrast old-fashioned sexism and modern sexism.
Q4) Research suggests that people with low self-esteem favor their ingroup more than people with high self-esteem.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define modern racism and provide an example.
Q6) How does mood affect the use of stereotypes?
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Chapter 11: Aggression
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Q1) Ben,an aggressive man,would likely show too much activity in the right temporal lobe if researchers looked at his brain with imaging technology.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Dodge's social information processing theory involves a 5-step model that outlines how a child responds to a problematic event or situation.Which of the following represents a main step in that model?
A) modeling parent's behavior
B) evaluating a response
C) encoding social cues
D) both evaluating a response and encoding social cues
Q3) Which of the following individuals supported the idea that aggression was unlearned and innate,and evolved because it is evolutionarily adaptive to human survival?
A) Sigmund Freud
B) Konrad Lorenz
C) Albert Bandura
D) Sigmund Freud and Konrad Lorenz
Q4) Briefly name and describe two strategies for reducing aggression.
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Chapter 12: Examining Attraction and Close Relationships
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Q1) According to work by Pennebaker and colleagues,if you were at a bar,the perceived attractiveness of another individual would ____ as the night progressed.
A) go down
B) go up
C) stay the same
D) go up then go down
Q2) A relationship between an employer and an employee is an example of a communal relationship.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which psychologists are credited with being among the first to bring attachment studies to humans?
A) Mary Ainsworth and Erving Goffman.
B) John Bolwby and Erving Goffman.
C) Mary Ainsworth and John Gottman.
D) Mary Ainsworth and John Bowlby.
Q4) Women are more likely than men to use stonewalling in their relationships.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Prosocial Behavior: Why We Help and Why We
Dont
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Q1) Compare and contrast three different theories of helping described in your textbook.
Q2) You have just experienced the death of a loved one and are in need of encouragement,empathy,and support.You might be more likely to receive help from:
A) your dad.
B) your mom.
C) your brother.
D) your neighbor Jim.
Q3) Design a program to enhance and increase prosocial behavior among children.Describe something that could be implemented at home and something that could be implemented in schools.
Q4) Which of the following is NOT one of the traits associated with an altruistic personality?
A) empathy.
B) internal locus of control.
C) low egocentrism.
D) high self-esteem.
Q5) How would an evolutionary psychologist explain helping behavior? Is there any evidence to support this viewpoint?
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