Introduction to Social Psychology
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Course Introduction
Introduction to Social Psychology explores the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the presence of others. This course examines key theories and research on social perception, attitudes, conformity, group dynamics, prejudice, interpersonal attraction, and prosocial behavior. Students will gain an understanding of how social contexts shape individual actions and will have the opportunity to apply social psychological principles to everyday situations and real-world issues. Through lectures, discussions, and practical activities, the course encourages critical thinking about the role of social influences in shaping human behavior.
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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) Health Canada intends to put even more graphic images of the effects of smoking on cigarette packages in an effort to deter smokers.With information in Chapter 1,you might advise them that smokers may
A) smoke more to relieve the anxiety these images create.
B) reduce their fear by engaging in denial.
C) improve their health related behaviour in other areas.
D) not even notice the images and continue to smoke.
E) blame Health Canada for their smoking problems.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is a consequence of underestimating the power of social influence?
A) We underestimate our intuition.
B) We tend to overcomplicate simple situations.
C) We become too confident.
D) We overestimate our vulnerability to social situations.
E) We develop a false sense of security.
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Methodology
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Q1) Are people who are better educated more or less prejudiced than people who have less education? This question is best answered by
A) archival analysis.
B) correlational research.
C) systematic observation.
D) participant observation.
E) structured interviews.
Answer: B
Q2) In which of the following disciplines are students most likely-by virtue of their experiences-to sigh,"Big deal.I could have predicted that"?
A) particle physics
B) organic chemistry
C) marine biology
D) social psychology
E) theoretical mathematics
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Social Cognition
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Q1) In most cases,when we encounter a fact that is inconsistent with our schemas,we
A) ponder the source of the inconsistency.
B) abandon our schemas.
C) examine the nature of the inconsistency.
D) overlook the inconsistent fact.
E) revise our schemas.
Answer: D
Q2) What have a number of research studies on the self-fulfilling prophecy revealed?
A) Schema-confirming behaviours are conscious and deliberate.
B) Self-fulfilling prophecies are the result of unconscious, inadvertent processes.
C) Self-fulfilling prophecies are a result of our desire to "be right."
D) Because their job is to assess performance, educators are especially susceptible to the self-fulfilling prophecy.
E) Self-fulfilling prophecies cannot have any real impact on our behaviour.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Social Perception
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Q1) Ben's first impression of Juan is that Juan is kind and friendly.Ben decides that Juan must also be smart and compassionate.Ben's assumption is an example of A) the distinctiveness effect.
B) an implicit personality theory.
C) the self-serving bias.
D) a defensive attribution.
E) belief in a just world.
Q2) When people commit the fundamental attribution error,they tend to A) overestimate the situational constraints on people's behaviour. B) underestimate the direct causes of people's behaviour. C) underestimate the situational constraints on people's behaviour. D) rely on situational information only and disregard personality variables. E) overestimate the proximal causes of people's behaviour.
Q3) Why and how does a belief in a just world often lead to victim blaming? Describe the belief in a just world and explain why it occurs and how this belief can have negative consequences for the victims of crime.
Q4) Why is the correspondence bias also called the fundamental attribution error and why does it occur?
Q5) 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) Self-enhancement among individuals from Asian cultures
A) doesn't seem to occur.
B) happens when speaking about themselves.
C) happens when speaking about their families but not themselves.
D) happens when speaking about themselves and their families.
E) happens when speaking about their themselves and only close family members.
Q2) When Linda was a child,her friends at school all earned a lot of money if their grades were good.Linda went to her parents and asked that she be given money for good report cards.Her parents agreed.She would earn a nickel for every "A" and a dollar if she earned "all A's." Her friends,of course,were offered much more money for good grades.Using self-perception theory and the overjustification effect,explain why Linda's parents might have offered her such meager monetary rewards for academic success.
Q3) According to social psychology research findings,when we engage in social comparison,we are most likely to compare ourselves to A) experts.
B) people who perform poorly on the task.
C) similar others.
D) whomever is physically closest to us.
E) dissimilar others.
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Chapter 6: Attitudes and Attitude Change
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Q1) Leon Festinger and J.Merrill Carlsmith (1959)paid participants either $1 or $20 to tell another person that a boring,tedious task was really fun and interesting.The results of their experiment demonstrated that
A) most people will not lie regardless of the reward.
B) minimal external justification can lead to attitude change.
C) people often refuse to say in public what they privately believe.
D) attitude-discrepant acts will only change internal attitudes when there is little or no external justification.
E) when people experience dissonance, they work to justify their effort.
Q2) According to the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion,you are more likely to be influenced by the central route when you are
A) impressed with the speaker's credentials and manner.
B) not invested in the topic at hand.
C) not interested in the topic at hand.
D) willing and able to give your full attention to the message.
E) preoccupied with other matters.
Q3) Describe Ajzen and Fishbein's theory of planned behaviour as it relates to the power of attitudes to predict deliberative behaviours.
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Chapter 7: Conformity
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Q1) Recall that Stanley Milgram conducted a variation on his original obedience experiment.In this variation,there were two confederates in addition to the participant.When the participant threw the switch at 150 volts,one of the confederates refused to continue,even though the experimenter commanded that they do so.In this variation,only about 10% (compared to about 65% in the original study)went to the highest shock level.This experimental variation demonstrated the power of _______ in eliciting obedience.
A) normative social influence
B) the lowballing technique
C) the door-in-the-face effect
D) a non-unanimous majority
E) informational social influence
Q2) Assume that you are canvassing a neighbourhood to collect donations to the Nuke a Whale Fund.You would be using the door-in-the-face technique if you first _______ and then _______.
A) described the fund; asked for a donation.
B) said "Every penny counts"; asked for $10.
C) asked for a small donation of time; asked for $100
D) complimented the potential donor; asked for a small donation.
E) asked for $500; asked for $10.
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Chapter 8: Group Processes
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Q1) The more cohesive a group is,the more likely it is to
A) retain members, involve members in activities, and recruit similar members.
B) constrain members, lead members, and recruit similar members.
C) involve members, polarize members, and lead members.
D) evaluate members, reject members, and pressure members.
E) pressure members, organize members in activities, and rejects leadership.
Q2) Decision-making groups are most likely to share unique information when A) members are assigned areas of expertise.
B) they seek consensus.
C) the leader is charismatic.
D) their task is additive.
E) the leader is relationship-oriented.
Q3) The phenomenon of groupthink is most likely to occur when a group is under stress,highly _______,and when the leader is very _______.
A) diplomatic; cohesive.
B) cohesive; directive.
C) motivated; relationship-oriented.
D) cohesive; diplomatic.
E) motivated; feared.
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Chapter 9: Interpersonal Attraction
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Q1) Cross-cultural research found that _______ students were likely to associate attractiveness with _______.
A) Korean; personal strength.
B) all; concern for others.
C) all; friendliness.
D) North American; intelligence.
E) North American; integrity.
Q2) Murray and her colleagues (1996)studied heterosexual dating partners over the course of a year.They found that over time,when people held positive illusions about their partners,those partners actually came to see themselves in more positive ways.These findings illustrate the power of _______ to yield reciprocal love.
A) familiarity and trust
B) the self-fulfilling prophecy
C) similar levels of self-esteem
D) interdependence
E) exposure
Q3) Beauty constitutes a powerful stereotype.What characteristics are often associated with beauty? How might we actually create some of those characteristics in attractive others?
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Chapter 10: Prosocial Behaviour
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Q1) Paul Amato (1983)staged an incident in which a man fell down with a cry of pain and raised his pant leg to reveal a bloody injury.The staged scene was repeated in both rural and urban areas.When Amato counted the number of passersby who stopped to help the man,he found that
A) because the man was a stranger, people in rural areas helped less.
B) no matter where the staged incident occurred, people from small towns helped more.
C) people in small towns helped more than people in urban areas.
D) women in rural areas helped more than men, but in urban areas there was no gender difference.
E) men in rural areas helped more than women, but in urban areas there was no gender difference.
Q2) The idea that natural selection favours behaviours that help a genetic relative is known as
A) kinship bias.
B) kin selection.
C) familial reciprocity.
D) familial bias.
E) familial selection.
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Chapter 11: Aggression
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Q1) _______ reflects the idea that if people can "aggress" in harmless ways,built up aggressive energies will diminish,reducing the odds of further aggressive behaviour.
A) Contagion
B) Displacement
C) Catharsis
D) Social learning
E) Fantasy inhibition
Q2) _______ occurs when a person is thwarted on the way to an expected goal or gratification.
A) Depression
B) Frustration
C) Low self-esteem
D) Anger
E) Anxiety
Q3) During the turbulent 1960s,national leaders were concerned about a phenomenon they called "the long,hot summer." They were concerned,given an unpopular war and strained race relations,that civil unrest and even riots would occur during the summer months.Was their concern justified or is the idea of the long,hot summer a myth?
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Chapter 12: Prejudice
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Q1) Modern prejudice is _______ than "traditional" prejudice.
A) less insidious
B) less obvious
C) less serious
D) more explicit
E) more blatant
Q2) Gaucher and colleagues (2011)found that advertisements for male-dominated jobs had more masculine stereotypical words (e.g.,competitive,dominate)than advertisements for female-dominated jobs.They also found that women were reluctant to apply for such jobs because
A) they expected sexism in the workplace.
B) they felt they would not belong in the workplace.
C) they found the language offensive.
D) they thought they could earn more elsewhere.
E) they felt they didn't have the right skills for the job.
Q3) What is the extended contact hypothesis and how does it contribute to the reduction of prejudice?
Q4) What is modern prejudice and how is it different from "old fashioned bigotry"? Also how does the measurement of modern prejudice differ from previous methods?
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology in Action 1
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Q1) In the study conducted by Orbell and colleagues (1988),a participant could keep 6 dollars or donate it and have the money double.Most participants who played the game
A) donated the money so that each group member received 2 dollars.
B) donated the money after being prompted by the experimenter to do so.
C) failed to donate the money even after group discussion.
D) donated the money after watching a short video clip that explained the importance of the task.
E) kept the money unless there was group discussion about the virtues of donating the cash.
Q2) Nancy is listening to the radio while she drives.At the same moment she hears a message from a "Keep Canada Beautiful" campaign,she notices a fast-food bag on the side of the road.The difference between what Nancy hears and sees reflects the difference between _______ norms and _______ norms.
A) descriptive; proscriptive
B) objective; descriptive
C) descriptive; objective
D) injunctive; descriptive
E) descriptive; injunctive
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Chapter 14: Social Psychology in Action 2
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Q1) Patrick has experienced a large number of changes in his life recently.He has lost his job,is getting a divorce,is facing income tax evasion charges,and his wife is expecting a child.Patrick has also reported an increase in anxiety and has been sick a lot over the last six months.Some researchers would suggest that increased stress has taken a toll on Patrick's health.Others would convincingly suggest that _______ would better account for this relation.
A) environmental pollution
B) a lack of exercise and improper diet
C) a clinical disorder
D) a genetic defect
E) certain personality traits
Q2) Unlike perceived control,self-efficacy
A) is strongly related to positive health outcomes.
B) represents confidence in one's ability to perform specific behaviours to achieve a desired outcome.
C) can reduce feelings of learned helplessness.
D) does not have any impact on behaviour.
E) is more difficult to change.
Q3) 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) The results reported by Yarmey and colleagues (2001)when examining the accuracy of witnesses' identification of unfamiliar voices found a(n)
A) surprisingly accurate identification rate of 95%.
B) false identification rate of 80%.
C) false identification rate of 95%.
D) accurate identification rate of 80%.
E) false identification rate of 45%.
Q2) According to the text,instances in which a minority faction in a jury persuades the majority to change their verdict
A) happen quite often.
B) occur more often in cases where the jury deliberated for a long time.
C) occur in cases where the minority member(s) is/are experts in a relevant area.
D) are more common in criminal cases than in other court cases.
E) are rare.
Q3) How effective are polygraph tests in detecting deception? Are people able to tell when someone is lying or telling the truth?
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