Interpersonal Relationships
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Course Introduction
Interpersonal Relationships explores the dynamics, theories, and skills essential for building and maintaining healthy relationships in personal and professional contexts. The course examines communication patterns, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution strategies, and cultural influences on relationships. Students will analyze the nature of friendships, family bonds, romantic partnerships, and workplace interactions, developing practical skills to enhance trust, empathy, and cooperation. Through experiential activities and critical reflection, participants will gain insight into their own relational styles and learn evidence-based methods to foster meaningful, supportive connections with others.
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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) Which field is BEST defined as "the study of human societies and the groups that form those societies"?
A) anthropology
B) political science
C) sociology
D) psychology
Answer: C
Q2) The social psychological theory known as "social exchange theory" is based MOST obviously on which of the following other social sciences?
A) economics
B) history
C) political science
D) anthropology
Answer: A
Q3) The term "experimental realism" refers to whether the physical setting of a research study resembles the "real world."
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Culture and Nature
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Q1) Consider the many steps involved in how most people get their food in modern societies (e.g., steps involving everything from farms to factories to stores). This process is a good example of ____.
A) "the conscious override"
B) "the selfish gene"
C) "nature says go, culture says stop"
D) "putting people first"
Answer: D
Q2) Which saying is a general theme that emerges in research on human nature and culture?
A) "Nature wants war; culture wants peace"
B) "Nature wants a little; culture wants a lot"
C) "Nature says tomorrow; culture says today"
D) "Nature says go; culture says stop"
Answer: D
Q3) Homosexual activity is looked upon as abnormal in all contemporary societies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Self
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Q1) Mental tricks that people use to help themselves believe things that are false are called ____.
A) impression management skills
B) self-presentation strategies
C) narcissistic strategies
D) self-deception strategies
Answer: D
Q2) Is self-esteem related to academic grades?
A) Yes, they are positively correlated; and it appears that high self-esteem leads to good grades.
B) Yes, they are positively correlated; and it appears that good grades lead to high self-esteem.
C) Yes, they are positively correlated; and it appears that high self-esteem leads to good grades AND that good grades lead to high self-esteem.
D) No, self-esteem is not related to academic grades.
Answer: B
Q3) People with excessively high self-esteem, self-love, and a selfish orientation are known as ________________.
Answer: narcissists
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Chapter 4: Choices and Actions
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Q1) Research on positive illusions and goal-setting indicates that ____.
A) when setting goals, most people set aside positive illusions, and are (at least temporarily) realistic
B) most people are overly optimistic and ambitious when setting goals
C) because most people have positive illusions about themselves and their lives, they usually fail to set goals at all (and just assume that things will turn out well)
D) because most people have positive illusions about themselves and their lives, they tend to set goals for the distant future, but not goals for the present or immediate future
Q2) Martina is studying for her calculus exam. She needs to write a paper for another class, too, but while she is studying for her calculus class, her mind shuts off the paper so that she can focus on her math. Martina is experiencing ____.
A) learned helplessness
B) the panic button effect
C) the Zeigarnik effect
D) goal shielding
Q3) Habits are primarily influenced by the ________________ system.
Q4) What factors tend to promote decision avoidance?
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Chapter 5: Social Cognition
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Q1) The paradoxical effects of thought suppression have been linked to psychological disorders, especially ____.
A) schizophrenia and schizoaffective personality disorder
B) phobias, panic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder
C) bipolar disorder and hypomania
D) histrionic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder
Q2) Suppose that you are trying to guess how much money a co-worker of yours makes. You have no idea how much she makes off-hand. To try to guess, you start with your own salary and then add on a few dollars since she has been at your workplace longer than you have. That is, you make use of the ________________ heuristic.
Q3) Research suggests that the basic distinction people make in attributions is between
A) intentional and unintentional behavior
B) internal and external motives
C) kind and unkind acts
D) intelligent and unintelligent behavior
Q4) Define and give an example of three heuristics that are discussed in the textbook.
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Chapter 6: Emotion and Affect
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Q1) The idea that people maintain relatively constant levels of happiness or unhappiness-regardless of what happens to them-has been referred to as ____.
A) the hedonic treadmill
B) the broaden-and-build theory
C) emotional intelligence (EQ)
D) personal affective index
Q2) Even though Amanda just met Diego two minutes ago, she has a good feeling about him right off the bat. According to the ____ hypothesis, it is therefore likely that Amanda will also decide within minutes that Diego is a good person.
A) affective forecasting
B) affect balance
C) affect-as-information
D) emotional intelligence (EQ)
Q3) Research on repressing versus venting anger shows that ____.
A) neither of these actions are associated with heart disease
B) repressing anger is associated with heart disease, while venting anger is not
C) venting anger is associated with heart disease, while repressing anger is not
D) both of these actions are associated with heart disease
Q4) Describe how the arousal associated with emotion influences performance.
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Chapter 7: Attitudes, Beliefs and Consistency
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Q1) Research indicates that people will sometimes choose to suffer as a result of simply expecting to suffer-but only if ____.
A) they have a reward system in place but have not given much thought to the upcoming prospect of suffering
B) they have low self-esteem
C) they have coped with the expectation of suffering by thinking about it and changed relevant beliefs and attitudes
D) they have not yet thought about the upcoming suffering
Q2) Which of the following is the best example of a positive deliberate attitude toward snakes?
A) John doesn't get tense when he sees snakes.
B) John would probably watch a TV about snakes.
C) John says that he adores snakes.
D) John is reading a book right now about snakes and other reptiles.
Q3) Which scientist proposed the notion of embodied attitudes?
A) Charles Darwin
B) Leon Festinger
C) Robert Zajonc
D) Ivan Pavlov
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Chapter 8: Social Influence and Persuasion
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Q1) Research indicates that people are less vulnerable to persuasive messages when they are well-rested, in a good mood, and not distracted by other stimuli. That is, people are less prone to be persuaded when they have ____.
A) reverse conditioning
B) stockpiled resources
C) experienced a negative attitude change
D) undergone systematic desensitization
Q2) Compared to persuasion via the peripheral route, persuasion via the central route ____.
A) is associated with a greater sleeper effect
B) is associated with a greater discontinuity effect
C) produces stronger and more durable attitude change
D) produces weaker and more vulnerable attitude change
Q3) The so-called ____ is based on consistency, in which one assigns a tag to an individual and then requests a favor that is consistent with that tag.
A) labeling technique
B) pique technique
C) disrupt-then-reframe technique
D) legitimization-of-paltry-favors technique
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Chapter 9: Prosocial Behavior: Doing Whats Best for Others
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Q1) How does money impact self-sufficiency?
A) More money decreases one's sense of self-sufficiency
B) More money tends to increase one's sense of self-sufficiency
C) Money has not been shown to be related to self-sufficiency
D) Less money tends to increase one's sense of self-sufficiency
Q2) Research on gender and helping indicates that female helpers are ____.
A) more likely to help males than females
B) more likely to help females than males
C) equally likely to help males and females
D) more likely to help females as children, but more likely to help males as adults
Q3) Compared to people who do not have a strong belief in a just world, people who do have a strong belief in a just world are MORE likely to ____.
A) show a tendency to help attractive victims more than unattractive victims
B) blame victims for their plight
C) help others in emergency situations
D) help others in both emergency situations and non-emergency situations
Q4) The idea that empathy motivates people to reduce others' distress is known as the
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Chapter 10: Aggression and Antisocial Behavior
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Q1) According to ____, people learn to behave aggressively in the same way that they learn other things-by direct experience and by observing others.
A) instrumental learning theory
B) social learning theory
C) relational aggression theory
D) the cultural relativity hypothesis
Q2) In cultures of honor, ____ seems to be the primary cause of violence.
A) humiliation
B) moral outrage
C) jealousy
D) prejudice
Q3) Females are more likely than males to engage in ____ aggression.
A) physical
B) indirect
C) direct
D) relational
Q4) Describe the evidence that suggests that poor self-control is the primary cause of crime.
Q5) Describe the different cognitive biases that tend to promote aggression in humans.
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Chapter 11: Interpersonal Attraction and Rejection
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Q1) Describe the necessary ingredients for a sense of belongingness.
Q2) Consider the research regarding the relationships people have with large groups or organizations (e.g., people's ties with their universities or workplaces). Can such relationships "stand in" for interpersonal relationships, such that people with these types of relationships (but no interpersonal relationships) are not necessarily lonely?
A) No, these relationships cannot "stand in" for interpersonal relationships.
B) Yes, although this tends to be true only for men.
C) Yes, although this tends to be true only for older people.
D) Yes, although this tends to be true only within individualistic cultures.
Q3) Ostracism refers to being ____.
A) formally or legally removed from a social group
B) repeatedly humiliated, teased, or harassed (physically or verbally) by others
C) excluded, rejected, or ignored by others
D) intimidated, threatened, and sometimes coerced into unwanted behaviors
Q4) How do social psychologists define the "need to belong?" How common is it? What evidence is there that this is a real "need"?
Q5) The ________________ effect refers to the idea that one person who breaks the rules can inspire others to break the rules.
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Chapter 12: Close Relationships: Passion, Intimacy, and Sexuality
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Q1) In John Bowlby's research on infant attachment styles, infants who were emotionally distant, slow to trust others, and unwilling to depend on others were said to have an ____ attachment style.
A) aversive
B) anxious/ambivalent
C) avoidant
D) antisocial
Q2) Across society, ____ relationships seem the most powerful for driving progress and increasing wealth.
A) communal
B) altruistic
C) mutual
D) exchange
Q3) In most work relationships, people only help one another if they are manifestly paid for their services, or if they expect a direct favor in return. Such relationships are known as ____.
A) exchange relationships
B) pragmatic relationships
C) communal relationships
D) goal-seeking relationships
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Chapter 13: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations
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Q1) Hostile sexism is worse than benevolent sexism for women's cognitive performance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Suppose that Tim is relatively prejudiced against college athletes (he believes that they are overly aggressive and nonintellectual), while Alex does not appear to be prejudiced against college athletes. Research suggests that Tim and Alex differ in that ____.
A) Alex has less factual knowledge about college athletes than Tim does.
B) Alex knows fewer college athletes than Tim does.
C) Alex does not call to mind stereotypes about college athletes when he meets them, whereas Tim does.
D) Both call to mind stereotypes about college athletes when they meet them, but Alex overrides such stereotypes with other conscious beliefs, whereas Tim does not.
Q3) Describe the strategies available to overcome stereotypes and reduce prejudice.
Q4) Having to decide as quickly as possible if a string of words is a real word or not is a(n) ________________.
Q5) To what degree are stereotypes accurate?
Q6) Explain what stereotype threat is, and how it affects performance.
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Chapter 14: Groups
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Q1) Transactive memory is ____.
A) a process that takes place in groups
B) a type of memory associated with the automatic mind
C) the same thing as a "false memory"
D) a memory for a specific behavior or event that occurred in the past
Q2) The term groupthink, as used by social psychologists, refers to ____.
A) a style of thought in which the group clings to a shared but flawed view of the world
B) a sense of tension between trying to be unique and trying to be similar to others
C) a loss of self-awareness and loss of individual accountability that people sometimes feel in a group
D) the tendency to waste or deplete resources that are shared or jointly owned
Q3) 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
Q4) More powerful people laugh ____________________ often than less powerful people. (more/less)
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Chapter 15: Applying Social Psychology to Consumer Behavior
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Q1) After World War II, the United States had a lot of manufacturing capabilities but ____.
A) the social conditions during the war had created a population disinterested in purchasing
B) to continued raw material shortages of the war made it difficult to manufacture anything
C) people remained very fearful, resulting in decreased willingness to purchase anything but essentials
D) the products produced were so similar that there was no reason to purchase one over the other
Q2) From an advertiser's point of view, one of the strengths of social media is the ____.
A) intelligence of social media users in comparison to nonusers
B) fact that even savagely negative reviews typically lead to increased sales
C) ease with which a single brand can come to dominate the media and hence the market
D) ability to gather consumer data that can be used to target ads
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Chapter 16: Applying Social Psychology to Health
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Q1) The health belief model discussed in the text proposes that ____.
A) we form our health beliefs on the basis of observational information and our sense of self-efficacy
B) our beliefs about the effectiveness, ease, and consequences of doing (or not doing) a certain behavior determine whether we do (or do not do) that behavior
C) our beliefs about what others are doing vis-à-vis their health (whether accurate or not) guide our health-related behavior
D) we form our health beliefs by relying too much on what "feels good" either psychologically or physically
Q2) A(n) ____ is defined as a person's subjective probability that he or she will perform the behavior in question.
A) plan
B) intention
C) appraisal
D) hypothesis
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Chapter 17: Applying Social Psychology to the Workplace
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Q1) The process organizations use to identify qualified individuals for a job is ____.
A) recruitment
B) selection
C) determination
D) discovery
Q2) The identification of critical elements to do a job is accomplished through ____.
A) job analysis
B) workforce planning
C) performance review
D) organizational climate
Q3) Which kind of mentoring will produce the best outcome?
A) Assign mentors to people on a required formal rotation when they start a designated role.
B) Ensure that roles and rules are differentiated and established ahead of time.
C) Assign mentors with a time cap on sessions to maintain productivity.
D) Encourage veteran employees to mentor new employees, but do not formally assign mentor roles.
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Chapter 18: Applying Social Psychology to the Law
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Q1) When instructions to individuals viewing the lineup include a warning that the perpetrator may not be in the lineup, there is a(n) ____.
A) decrease in the number of correct identifications made by witnesses
B) increase in the number of correct identifications made by witnesses
C) decrease in the number of mistaken identifications made by witnesses
D) increase in the number of mistaken identifications made by witnesses
Q2) When jurors have been exposed to pretrial publicity, they ____.
A) are somewhat more likely to deem the defendant guilty
B) are somewhat more likely to deem the defendant innocent
C) tend to think that they are biased by this exposure, even when they are not
D) are able to disregard any information to which they have been exposed once the trial begins
Q3) In the ____ lineup procedure, witnesses view each lineup member in turn, making a decision about whether that lineup member is the culprit before viewing the next member of the lineup.
A) simultaneous
B) signal detection
C) sequential
D) decision-based
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Chapter 19: Applying Social Psychology to the Environment
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Q1) 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
Q2) After a badly rusted storage tank leaked into the river that supplies drinking water for a large region, the owners of the tank deliberately withhold information about the chemicals that had been stored in the tank. This is best described as the ____ trap.
A) missing-hero
B) missing-information
C) missing-integrity
D) missing-regulation
Q3) Air pollution is the ____ leading cause of mortality worldwide.
A) 9th
B) 11th
C) 13th
D) 15th
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