Introduction to Social Psychology Test Bank
Course Introduction
Introduction to Social Psychology explores how individuals think, feel, and behave in social contexts. This course examines classic and contemporary theories and research on topics such as social perception, attitudes, group dynamics, conformity, prejudice, and interpersonal relationships. Students will analyze the effects of social influence, culture, and situational factors on human behavior, while developing critical skills in understanding and applying social psychological concepts to everyday life.
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Social Psychology 11th Edition by David Myers
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Chapter 1: Introducing Social Psychology
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Q1) Socially shared beliefs are widely held ideas and values,which include our assumptions and cultural ideologies.This is a definition of A)nationality.
B)race.
C)social representations.
D)culture.
Answer: C
Q2) You are interested in finding out the effect that crowding has on people's moods.You conduct a study in a psychology research lab using two types of participantsparticipants who have to wait in a crowded waiting room before completing a measure of their mood,and participants who wait in an empty room before completing the same measure.Which type of research did you conduct?
A)correlational research
B)experimental research
C)laboratory research
D)both experimental and laboratory research
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Self in a Social World
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Q1) Goel et al.(2010)found that Facebook users were _____ accurate in guessing when they agreed with their friends on political issues and _____ accurate in guessing disagreement.
A)90%;41%
B)41%;90%
C)50%;50%
D)80%;60%
Answer: A
Q2) Who is MOST likely to have an independent sense of self?
A)Joel who lives in Hawaii
B)Angela who lives in Alabama
C)Keith who lives in Oregon
D)Jill who lives in Malaysia
Answer: C
Q3) Images of what we dream of or dread becoming in the future are called our
A)hoped-for selves.
B)transparent selves.
C)possible selves.
D)eventual selves.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Social Beliefs and Judgments
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Q1) The tendency to attribute our own behaviors to the environment and label others with traits is the
A)actor-observer perspective.
B)fundamental attribution error.
C)camera perspective bias.
D)result of self-awareness.
Answer: A
Q2) While sitting at a red light on her way to work,Amber fumes,"Why is it every time I'm late for work I get stuck at these red lights?" Amber most clearly holds a(n)
A)illusory correlation.
B)illusion of control.
C)representativeness heuristiC.
D)misattribution.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Behavior and Attitudes
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Q1) In 1964,Leon Festinger concluded that the evidence to date
A)did not show that attitudes guide behaviors.
B)showed that attitudes guide behaviors.
C)was irrelevant to the attitude-behavior relation.
D)showed that attitudes and behaviors varied together.
Q2) A variation of the foot-in-the-door technique is often used by car dealers,because it typically results in people complying with higher and higher requests.It is called the _______ technique.
A)foot-in-the-door
B)lowball
C)compliance
D)conformity
Q3) Allison's parents are so happy that she enjoys reading.They decide to encourage her to keep at it by paying her $5 for each book she reads.According to the overjustification effect,how will Allison react to this new reward system?
A)She will enjoy reading even more.
B)She will become less interested in reading.
C)She will be more selective in which books she reads.
D)Her attitude toward reading will remain the same.
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Chapter 5: Genes,culture,and Gender
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Q1) The implications of evolutionary psychology suggest that human success is defined by
A)acquiring wealth.
B)maintaining health.
C)exceeding average life expectancy.
D)having grandchildren.
Q2) Explain the hindsight criticism of evolutionary psychology.Provide an example of this type of thinking in evolutionary psychology.
Q3) According to the text,_______ are more likely to describe themselves as having empathy.
A)the young
B)the elderly
C)men
D)women
Q4) Research has found that _______ are generally superior at decoding others' emotional messages.
A)the young
B)the elderly
C)men
D)women
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Chapter 6: Conformity and Obedience
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Q1) A classmate across the room yawns and then several other students yawn.This is an example of
A)informational influence.
B)psychological reactance.
C)group cohesion.
D)the chameleon effect.
Q2) _______ sometimes follows compliance.
A)Obedience
B)Acceptance
C)Conformity
D)Reactance
Q3) A psychiatrist who interviewed 40 of Milgram's participants a year after their participation concluded that A)none had been harmed.
B)many were suspicious of all authorities.
C)a minority of them had lowered self-esteem.
D)most regretted having served in Milgram's study.
Q4) Describe what was done and what was found in Asch's (1955)study.
Q5) "Conformity is neither all bad nor all good." Do you agree? Why or why not?
Q6) Discuss the ethics of Milgram's study.
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Chapter 7: Persuasion
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Q1) Researchers have found that trustworthiness is _______ if the audience believes the communicator is NOT trying to persuade them.
A)lower
B)higher
C)average
D)absent
Q2) Describe a familiar television commercial and analyze the elements of persuasion that it uses.Does it promote and/or assume central or peripheral route processing?
Q3) According to Myers,the most effective instructors
A)present information as simply as possible.
B)use fear-provoking tests to encourage study.
C)get their students to think actively.
D)are attractive and engaging.
Q4) When two messages are back to back,followed by a time gap,the _______ effect usually occurs.
A)recency
B)primacy
C)channel
D)sleeper
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Chapter 8: Group Influence
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Q1) While sitting in a meeting,John is becoming more and more uncomfortable with the group consensus.Not wanting to make waves,though,he withholds his opinion in favor of the group's comfort.This is an example of A)having a mindguard.
B)being a free-rider.
C)self-censorship.
D)rationalization.
Q2) Ingham (1974)found that when blindfolded participants thought they were pulling a tug of war with other participants,they _______ than when they thought they were pulling alone.
A)pulled more
B)pulled less
C)pulled the same amount
D)varied more in their pulling amount
Q3) According to Johnson (2006),different groups help us meet different needs EXCEPT to A)affiliate.
B)achieve.
C)gain social identity.
D)set group norms.
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Chapter 9: Prejudice: Disliking Others
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Q1) Children of _______ have less stereotyped views of men and women.
A)authoritarian parents
B)employed women
C)devoutly religious parents
D)stay-at-home mothers
Q2) Data from 27 countries shows that people everywhere perceive women as more _______ and men as more _______.
A)agreeable;outgoing
B)outgoing;agreeable
C)democratic;emotional
D)emotional;collectivistic
Q3) Betty and Tina,both third-graders in the same classroom,are assigned by their teacher to different groups that will compete in a spelling bee.Betty and Tina each believe that their own group is composed of the better spellers.The girls' beliefs best illustrate
A)the just-world phenomenon.
B)an ingroup bias.
C)the fundamental attribution error.
D)an outgroup bias.
Q4) Explain how motivations can affect prejudice.
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Chapter 10: Aggression: Hurting Others
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Q1) The near consensus among social psychologists is that
A)viewing or participating in violence fails to produce catharsis.
B)hitting a punching bag reduces aggression.
C)sexual materials provide an outlet for bottled-up impulses.
D)wars seem to purge aggressive feelings.
Q2) Instinct theories of aggression would have the most difficulty accounting for A)silent and social aggression in animals.
B)wide variations of aggressiveness from culture to culture.
C)biochemical influences on aggression.
D)unprovoked outbursts of aggression.
Q3) Which of the following is not one of the needs playing video games satisfy according to Przyblski et al.(2010)?
A)control
B)social connection
C)competence
D)dominance
Q4) Explain each of the five consistent effects that Anderson (2003)found to be associated with video games.
Q5) What is relative deprivation and how is it related to crime?
Q6) Define both hostile and instrumental aggression,and give an example of each.
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Chapter 11: Attraction and Intimacy: Liking and Loving
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Q1) Paula has just arrived as a new student on campus and does not know anyone.All else being equal,is she most likely to become friends with Joni who lives next door,with Kristy who lives two doors down,with Beth who lives three doors down,or with Heidi who lives in the room directly above hers?
A)Joni
B)Kristy
C)Beth
D)Heidi
Q2) All of the following are examples of implicit egotism EXCEPT
A)we are more likely to marry someone whose first or last name resembles our own.
B)women named Virginia disproportionately live in Virginia.
C)we want to name our children using family names.
D)America's dentists are almost twice more likely to be named as Dennis than the two other most popular names.
Q3) Explain how the two-factor theory accounts for passionate love.
Q4) Explain Sternberg's concept of love and its variations.
Q5) Compare and contrast secure,insecure,and avoidant attachment.
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Q6) List and briefly explain the four factors that lead to initial attraction.
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Chapter 12: Helping
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Q1) You are most likely to receive help when there are _____ witnesses to your plight.
A)2
B)6
C)10
D)14
Q2) Studies of the effects of mood on helping suggest that adults who feel _______ are more likely than those in a neutral control condition to help.
A)guilty
B)intense grief
C)unhappy
D)superior
Q3) Evolutionary psychologists would have greatest difficulty explaining why
A)Jill agreed to donate bone marrow to save the life of a stranger.
B)Molly agreed to drive her neighbor to the doctor.
C)Simon donated a kidney to save the life of his son.
D)Rick helped his best friend paint his house.
Q4) Define altruism and provide an example of it.
Q5) What is "genuine altruism"? Give an example.
Q6) Compare and contrast Batson and Cialdini's research on genuine altruism.
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Chapter 13: Conflict and Peacemaking
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Q1) Peace can be considered
A)a synonym for utopiA.
B)the suppression of open conflict.
C)less than a fragile,superficial calm.
D)an intrinsic acceptance of others.
Q2) Some individuals have many children so that they can ensure someone will take care of them in the future.However,this contributes to the collective devastation of overpopulation.This is an example of A)mirror-image perception.
B)the jigsaw problem.
C)perceived injustice.
D)a social dilemma.
Q3) Explain how couples can fight constructively.
Q4) _______ occurs when conflicted parties seek an agreement through direct negotiation.
A)Bargaining
B)Amelioration
C)Mediation
D)Arbitration
Q5) Define and provide an example of each of the Cs of peacemaking.
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Chapter 14: Social Psychology in the Clinic
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Q1) Psychology's contribution to the interdisciplinary field of behavioral medicine is A)clinical psychology.
B)psychiatry.
C)behavioral analysis.
D)health psychology.
Q2) Review the findings on the relationship between friendships and happiness.
Q3) According to the text,an important implication of the research on illusory thinking is that
A)intuition has no legitimate place in the field of science.
B)the scientific method is the only legitimate way to answer significant human questions.
C)psychologists must test their preconceptions before presenting them as truth.
D)conventional wisdom is almost always wrong.
Q4) Research indicates that when interviewers are instructed to test for a trait,they tend to ask questions that show evidence of A)self-confirming diagnoses.
B)the illusion of control.
C)negative attributional styles.
D)illusory correlations.
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Chapter 15: Social Psychology in Court
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Q1) Who among the following is likely to receive the most severe sentence for drunk driving?
A)Kim,a good looking real estate agent
B)Tim,an unattractive auto mechanic with long hair
C)Ken,a clean-cut businessman
D)Carol,an attractive single mother
Q2) Which of the following factors has been shown to influence either the likelihood of conviction or the severity of punishment?
A)poverty
B)attractiveness
C)similarity to the jurors
D)both attractiveness and similarity to the jurors
Q3) Jury researcher Michael Saks (1998)reported that
A)smaller juries more accurately recall trial testimony.
B)larger juries more accurately recall trial testimony.
C)smaller juries give more time to deliberations.
D)larger juries are more likely to convict.
Q4) What constructive steps can be taken to increase the accuracy and objectivity of jury members?
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Chapter 16: Social Psychology and the Sustainable Future
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Q1) Describe the effects of global warming.
Q2) Rising affluence in the U.S.has not produced increased happiness because A)we discount our belongings.
B)there's always someone richer.
C)growth is not good.
D)of greater health problems among baby boomers.
Q3) According to 2008 and 2009 surveys,how much money can Americans earn a year before their perceived will produced diminishing long-term gains in overall happiness?
A)$50,000
B)$75,000
C)$100,000
D)$125,000
Q4) Optimists argue that new technologies will do all of the following except A)bring increased material well-being for more people.
B)require fewer raw materials.
C)slow population growth.
D)create less waste.
Q5) What does Myers say about whether or not rich countries are happier?
Q6) What does Myers say about whether or not rich people are happier?
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