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Course Introduction
Introduction to Psychology provides an overview of the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. The course explores foundational concepts such as learning, perception, memory, emotion, development, personality, and psychological disorders. Students will examine the principles and techniques used in psychological research and learn how psychology applies to everyday life. Through lectures, discussions, and practical examples, students will gain a deeper understanding of how biological, social, and environmental factors influence individual and group behavior.
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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) Your textbook and the study of social psychology is based on the assumption that
A) it is important to understand how to manipulate and control behavior
B) there are far more cultural differences than there are similarities
C) intraindividual variability far exceeds interindividual variability
D) human nature has some basic, universal features
Answer: D
Q2) Zhao's research interest is to determine if poverty causes one to be more politically liberal. However, he cannot randomly assign people to conditions of poverty versus wealth because (aside from the practical difficulty) it would be unethical to do so. Zhao will have to ____.
A) conduct a field experiment
B) take a correlational approach
C) do a meta-analysis
D) develop a factorial design
Answer: B
Q3) Replication is essential to the self-correcting nature of science.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Culture and Nature
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Q1) Are social psychologists concerned with cross-cultural differences in behavior?
A) In general, no-because cross-cultural questions are usually left to cultural psychologists and anthropologists.
B) In general, no-because there are almost no cross-cultural differences in basic social psychological phenomena.
C) Somewhat-most social psychologists are cautious about generalizing their findings to different cultures, but the majority of research is still done only in the U.S.
D) In general, yes-most social psychologists are cautious about generalizing their findings to different cultures, and the majority of research is now replicated in at least one other culture before it is ever published.
Answer: C
Q2) Research about the sex and sexuality has demonstrated that ____.
A) contraception is a relatively new idea
B) women often desire more sexual partners than do men
C) prostitution is found in most large cultures
D) male virginity is more prized than female virginity
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Self
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Q1) People with low self-esteem are MORE likely to focus on ____ than ____.
A) self-enhancement; self-protection
B) self-enhancement; self-esteem
C) self-protection self-enhancement
D) self-protection; self-esteem
Answer: C
Q2) Who is MOST likely to go vote in an election?
A) A person who isn't interested in politics
B) A person who has thought about the importance of voting
C) A person who has thought about the importance of being a voter
D) A person who has thought about the importance of elections
Answer: C
Q3) Compared to other people, narcissists ____.
A) are not interested in being admired by other people
B) are not as loyal to their relationship partners
C) are very concerned about getting other people to like them
D) tend to have rather low self-esteem
Answer: B
Q4) The self-verification motive can also be called the ________________motive.
Answer: consistency
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Chapter 4: Choices and Actions
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Q1) According to self-determination theory, people who act based on ____ are freer than others.
A) intrinsic motivations
B) extrinsic motivations
C) low levels of meaning
D) high levels of meaning
Q2) Janie just has to get her paper written for her English class. Even though she is getting married this summer and planning the wedding is more personally important to her, she simply shuts all thoughts of her wedding out of her mind and buckles down to get the paper done. Janie has experienced ________________.
Q3) Which statement about willpower is accurate?
A) In general, people have far more willpower than they think they do.
B) Most people actually tend to decrease in willpower as they age.
C) People who practice willpower "exercises" develop stronger levels of willpower in the long term.
D) People show very different levels of willpower depending on the domain (eating behavior, work behavior, criminal behavior, etc.)
Q4) Habits are primarily influenced by the ________________ system.
Q5) What factors tend to promote decision avoidance?
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Chapter 5: Social Cognition
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Q1) You flip a coin ten times in a row. Every single time it comes up heads. On the eleventh flip, is it more likely to be heads, tails, or are heads and tails equally likely? If you are a hot hand player, you will answer ____.
A) heads
B) tails
C) heads and tails are equally likely
D) that you need time to think it over
Q2) Wing Tung is reading his textbook for history class. At the end of each paragraph, he stops and asks himself what the paragraph was about. Once he feels like he knows that, he goes on. Wing Tung is using ____ to improve his thinking.
A) meta-cognition
B) contamination
C) conjunction
D) attribution
Q3) The false consensus effect refers to the tendency for people to ____.
A) overestimate the number of people who agree with them
B) underestimate the number of people who agree with them
C) rely too heavily on the primacy effect
D) not rely heavily enough on the primacy effect
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Chapter 6: Emotion and Affect
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Q1) Rozin's research in which he presented apple juice that had been contaminated with a dead cockroach (although the roach was removed) to children and adults reveals that ____.
A) disgust is an innate emotion with little learning required
B) disgust is at least partially a learned emotion
C) disgust is innate for females, but learned for males
D) disgust is innate for males, but learned for females
Q2) According to the textbook, an affect is ____.
A) a feeling state that is not linked to a particular event
B) a largely automatic response that something is good or bad
C) a conscious evaluative reaction to some event
D) a judgment containing cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components
Q3) Which of the following statements about emotions and learning is most accurate?
A) Emotions are not rational and impede the learning process.
B) Emotions distract one from engaging in analysis.
C) Emotions focus your attention on the wrong features of the learning situation.
D) Emotions provide feedback that helps you learn from your mistakes.
Q4) Emotions can be sorted, or classified, along two basic dimensions: (1) unpleasant versus pleasant, and (2) ________________.
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Chapter 7: Attitudes, Beliefs and Consistency
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Q1) Research in social cognition has more or less suggested that evaluation is part of perception.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Distinguish between classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and social learning. How do they work and how do they differ from one another?
Q3) Social psychologists use the word ____ to refer to how people deal with traumas and return, post-trauma, to healthy, effective functioning.
A) recalibrating
B) transitioning
C) monitoring
D) coping
Q4) According to cognitive dissonance theory, discrepancies between attitudes and behaviors produce ____.
A) unpleasant memories
B) psychological discomfort
C) pleasant memories
D) psychological comfort
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) Which group of individuals is most likely to be simultaneously receptive to persuasive messages, but unlikely to yield to them?
A) those who are low in intelligence and low in self-esteem
B) those who are low in intelligence and high in self-esteem
C) those who are moderately high in intelligence and low in self-esteem
D) those who are moderately high in intelligence and high in self-esteem
Q2) The fast-approaching-deadline technique is a persuasive technique based upon the principle of ____.
A) scarcity
B) reciprocity
C) disruption and reframing
D) consistency
Q3) Communications that are fear-based (e.g., messages about the dangers of smoking) are not always effective. In what cases are they ineffective, and what conditions are necessary for them to be effective?
Q4) People who are in a good mood are more receptive to persuasive messages than people who are in a bad or neutral mood.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Prosocial Behavior: Doing Whats Best for Others
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Q1) If you are concerned that you are getting less than you deserve, then social psychologists would say that you are worried about ____, if you are concerned that you are getting more than you deserve then social psychologists would say that you are worried about ____.
A) normative influences; social influences
B) being underbenefited; being overbenefited
C) zero-sum issues; non-zero-sum issues
D) equality; equity
Q2) Explain the norms that humans use to determine fairness, and provide one example of each.
Q3) A strong belief in the reliability or validity of something is called ____.
A) trust
B) reciprocity
C) conformity
D) cooperation
Q4) Research on forgiveness in relationships indicates that ____.
A) better relationships ultimately lead to more forgiveness
B) more forgiveness ultimately leads to better relationships
C) worse relationships ultimately lead to more forgiveness
D) more forgiveness ultimately leads to worse relationships
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Chapter 10: Aggression and Antisocial Behavior
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Q1) The weapons effect is the tendency for aggression to increase as a result of the mere presence of a weapon.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Maureen is really frustrated that the contractor working on her house is taking so long. But she doesn't want to yell at him because she is worried he will not produce quality work for her if she does. Instead, she yells and snipes at her husband. Maureen's aggression is ____.
A) displaced
B) violent
C) instrumental
D) proactive
Q3) Social psychologists define aggression in a very specific way. According to that definition, which of the following is an example of aggression?
A) A man committing suicide
B) A surgeon drilling into a person's head during brain surgery
C) A child calling her older brother cruel and hurtful names
D) A disgruntled employee fantasizing about punching his boss in the face
Q4) Instinct theories argue that aggression is ____________________.
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Chapter 11: Interpersonal Attraction and Rejection
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Q1) Anything that draws two or more people together is called ____.
A) attraction
B) exclusion
C) rejection
D) social acceptance
Q2) According to the textbook, the tendency for people to be attracted to others who are similar to them (rather than different from them) is probably ____.
A) an evolved preference-adaptive for humans and present in other animals as well
B) a learned preference-something that is taught to people as part of the socialization process, but not necessarily innate
C) a cultural phenomenon-something that is normative in individualistic cultures, but less common in collectivistic cultures
D) an individual differences variable (i.e., a personality difference)-something that is true for some people but not for other people
Q3) Explain the emotional differences between a person who is experiencing unrequited love and the person who is rejecting that individual.
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Chapter 12: Close Relationships: Passion, Intimacy, and Sexuality
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Q1) Jed is very interested in having a committed relationship with someone. Based on Diamond's research, this is probably motivated by the ____.
A) attachment drive
B) sex drive
C) nurture drive
D) psychodynamic drive
Q2) Which ideas are most inconsistent, or most in disagreement, in terms of their explanations of sexual behaviors?
A) evolutionary theory and social constructionist theories
B) evolutionary theory and social exchange theory
C) social exchange theory and social constructionist theories
D) evolutionary theory and the Coolidge effect
Q3) Research on sexual jealousy suggests that it is ____.
A) to some degree deeply rooted in human nature
B) a relatively recent phenomenon
C) common in Western cultures but not in Eastern cultures
D) common in individualistic but not collectivistic cultures
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) Which of the following refers to the tendency that some people have to simultaneously (a) hold egalitarian values, and (b) experience negative feelings, or feelings of disease, when interacting with minority groups?
A) aversive racism
B) social dominance orientation
C) contact hypothesis
D) discontinuity effect
Q2) Stereotyping saves mental energy and can help people process information more quickly.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The human mind appears to be innately programmed to think about people as individuals, rather than to engage in social categorization (by clumping people into social groups).
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the strategies available to overcome stereotypes and reduce prejudice.
Q5) On average, black Americans have higher self-esteem than white Americans
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Groups
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Q1) Social psychologists have coined the term ____ to refer to the loss of self-awareness and of individual accountability in a group.
A) deindividuation
B) optimal distinctiveness
C) social facilitation
D) social loafing
Q2) Suppose that you are part of a small religious discussion group and that, after several months in the group, you start to notice some disturbing patterns in the group's behaviors: Everyone always agrees with one another; no one ever expresses disagreements; outside views are shunned; and the group seems to feel that it is invulnerable and morally superior to other groups. If you have a good memory for your social psychology reading, then you should suspect that your group is suffering from
Q3) We should expect social loafing to be greatly reduced when ____.
A) people are not held accountable for their inputs
B) people are anonymous within the group
C) the task at hand is important to people
D) people think that others in the group are superior to them in terms of the task at hand
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Chapter 15: Applying Social Psychology to Consumer Behavior
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Q1) In consumer psychology, the term shrinkage refers to ____.
A) the tendency for consumers to devalue products once they own them
B) the tendency for consumers to overanalyze, and over-justify, their purchases
C) the tendency for consumers to devalue products that they consider but don't end up buying
D) a company's loss of money or inventory as a result of shoplifting or employee theft
Q2) Research indicates that credit card debt is most related to ____.
A) impulsive buying
B) general self-destructiveness
C) a tendency to feel generally out of control
D) time orientation
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) Maria opposes mandatory vaccination of children and often cites "evidence" of the harm caused by vaccines while apparently ignoring their safety and efficacy in the vast majority of instances. This is consistent with _____.
A) negativity bias
B) cognitive dissonance
C) confirmation bias
D) social learning
Q2) 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
Q3) It is estimated that ____ of all deaths in the United States could have been postponed or avoided had people changed unhealthy behaviors.
A) 5%
B) 20%
C) 50%
D) 90%
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Chapter 17: Applying Social Psychology to the Workplace
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Q1) Two or more employees who "(a) exist to perform organizationally relevant tasks, (b) share one or more common goals, (c) interact socially, (d) exhibit task interdependencies (i.e., work flow, goals, outcomes), (e) maintain and manage boundaries, and (f) are embedded in an organizational context that sets boundaries, constrains the team, and influences exchanges with other units in the broader entity" form a(n) ____.
A) collaboration
B) committee
C) work group
D) suboffice team
Q2) One of the defining characteristics of industrial/organizational psychology is its _____.
A) atheoretical orientation
B) focus on normal behavior
C) focus on basic rather than applied research
D) study of groups rather than individuals
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Chapter 18: Applying Social Psychology to the Law
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Q1) Juries for robbery trials, assault trials, and other trials all go through a process of voir dire; juries for capital cases also go through a screening called ____.
A) venire
B) death qualification
C) continuance
D) peremptory challenge
Q2) Research on estimator variables has found that _____.
A) men and women have similar rates of both correct and mistaken identifications
B) men and women have similar rates of correct identifications but men have higher rates of mistaken identifications
C) men and women have similar rates of mistaken identifications but men have higher rates of correct identifications
D) women have higher rates of both correct and mistaken identifications
Q3) The jury pool in the United States is known as a(n) ____.
A) venire
B) voir dire
C) implicit panel
D) challenger board
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Chapter 19: Applying Social Psychology to the Environment
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Q1) The subjective feeling that there are too many people in a given space is called
A) density
B) pressure
C) push
D) crowding
Q2) Suppose that you and your four roommates decide to get a dog. Unfortunately, you are all fairly selfish with your time; no one takes responsibility for the dog, and no one communicates about the dog's needs. As a result, the dog rarely gets fed, only goes on walks occasionally, and has never once made it to the vet. In short, he is neglected, and he ultimately ends up costing you thousands of dollars in emergency room bills (which could have been avoided had you taken him to the vet early on). Social psychologists would say that the dog is a victim of ____.
A) the commons dilemma
B) overpersonalization
C) the rule of law
D) confirmation bias
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