Psychology 101 Question Bank
Course Introduction
Psychology 101 introduces students to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. This foundational course covers key topics such as learning, memory, perception, consciousness, development, personality, psychological disorders, and social interactions. Throughout the semester, students will explore historical and contemporary theories, research methods, and applications of psychology in everyday life. The course aims to equip students with a broad understanding of the discipline and develop critical thinking skills through discussions, experiments, and analysis of real-world case studies.
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Social Psychology 7th Australia Edition by Graham M. Vaughan
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Chapter 1: Introducing Social Psychology
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Q1) Non-experimental methods include
A) archival research, surveys and case studies
B) the repeated measures method and field experiments
C) the two-factor analysis of variance
D) both A and C
Answer: A
Q2) Social psychology is social because it
A) incorporates evolutionary social psychology
B) deals with how people are affected by other people
C) is a branch of general psychology
D) is based on group dynamics
Answer: B
Q3) Laboratory experiments are designed so as to
A) control for confounding variables
B) establish external validity
C) be as close as possible to a real-life experience
D) justify keeping rats and pigeons in the department
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Social Cognition and Social Thinking
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Q1) You undertake your personal assessment of Alexandra on a likeability scale ranging from +3 (favourable)to -3 (unfavourable).You rate her as somewhat lazy (-2),but very funny (+3).Overall,you rate her +0.5.Your impression is based on A) summation
B) averaging
C) a central trait
D) a prototype
Answer: B
Q2) Prototypes and schemas are
A) types of responses people make to threat
B) principles central to organisational psychology
C) dependent on each other
D) often used interchangeably by social psychologists
Answer: D
Q3) One major critique of social cognition is that it is too
A) scientific
B) reductionist
C) social
D) sociological
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Attribution and Social Explanation
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Q1) An example of a group-enhancing bias is
A) group production blocking
B) the primordial urges of the id
C) the ultimate attribution error
D) the fundamental attribution error
Answer: C
Q2) According to Schachter,a person's state of depression can be turned into a feeling of wellbeing.This is
A) because people's emotions depend on how they label them
B) a result of cognitive inconsistency
C) clearly wrong
D) a result of temporary drug treatment with subsequent psychotherapy
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a major theory of attribution?
A) Bem's theory of self-perception
B) Rogers' protection motivation theory
C) Heider's theory of naïve psychology
D) Schachter's theory of emotional lability
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Self and Identity
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Q1) BIRGing is
A) the use of name-dropping to get others to think well of you
B) saying what you think-a kind of psychological burping
C) an acronym for Bringing In Research Grants
D) a key part of the GRIT method of conflict resolution
Q2) Which of the following is not a major threat to a person's self-esteem?
A) Failing in what you try to achieve
B) Experiencing several stressing events
C) Having a number of relatively discrete selves
D) Being aware of important inconsistencies or discrepancies about yourself
Q3) According to the overjustification effect,performance on a task may be improved by
A) yelling at someone until they complete the task
B) setting performance goals, and rewarding for good performance
C) appealing to a person's ideal self
D) giving many rewards for completing the task
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Chapter 5: Attitudes
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Q1) Automatic judgements are to attitudes as ________ is (are)to ________.
A) implicit measures; explicit measures
B) unconscious; conscious
C) the observer; the actor
D) introversion; extraversion
Q2) The overall behavioural index,which is derived from measuring several specific behaviours,is
A) the concept of volition
B) the concept of the multiple-act criterion
C) the integration measure
D) the reasoned action criterion
Q3) Maria and Mario's son,Ronaldo,is four years old.To what extent will Ronaldo's attitudes reflect those of his parents by the time he turns twenty?
A) Hardly at all
B) At a general level quite a lot, but the link is weak at a specific level of attitude
C) Most of his attitudes
D) At a specific level quite a lot, but the link is weak at a general level of attitude
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Chapter 6: Persuasion and Attitude Change
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Q1) Which one of the following is NOT an obvious way in which resistance to a persuasive message can occur?
A) Inoculation
B) Forewarning
C) Reactance
D) Vicarious dissonance
Q2) The heuristic-systematic model maintains that
A) acquiescent response set is the usual response
B) systematic processing is based on heuristics
C) careful reasoning is more important than cognitive heuristics
D) two kinds of processing are distinguished
Q3) A challenging orientation in attitude change theory has argued that one way to change people's minds is to change their behaviour.The underlying concept is
A) weighted averaging
B) heuristic processing
C) cognitive dissonance
D) the door-in-the-face tactic
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Chapter 7: Social Influence
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Q1) The concept of referent informational influence has arisen from
A) the social identity approach
B) social cognition
C) balance theory
D) the concept of normative influence
Q2) In Milgram's obedience experiment,when orders were given by telephone
A) no participant persisted to the end
B) obedience decreased considerably
C) participants refused to administer shocks
D) participants' obedience increased
Q3) Behavioural style typifies a successful minority.To be effective a minority needs to characteristically
A) be perceived as principled and not pursuing a hidden agenda
B) demonstrate that it is making some sacrifices
C) disrupt the majority's norm
D) all of the above
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Chapter 8: People in Groups
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Q1) Ebenezer is self-employed,lives in his mother's house,and somehow manages to avoid paying any form of tax.He swans off for summer holidays in the national parks,uses public toilets (but only the free ones),and has even managed to obtain free medical insurance.Ebenezer is a(n)
A) self-monitor
B) compensator
C) free rider
D) easy rider
Q2) _________________ believe that people in groups behave in much the same way as they do by themselves,and that group processes are really nothing more than interpersonal processes between multiple people,whereas _________________ believe that the behaviour of people in groups is influenced by unique social processes and cognitive representations that can only occur in and emerge from groups.
A) Individualists; collectivists
B) Collectivists; individualists
C) Social psychologists; cognitive psychologists
D) Psychoanalysts; clinical psychologists
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Chapter 9: Leadership and Decision Making
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Q1) Prototypical leaders
A) are the most direct source of prototype information for the group
B) are more likely to behave in group-serving ways
C) closely embody group norms
D) all of the above
Q2) According to Fiedler (1965),leaders who derive their self-esteem from achieving group goals irrespective of their co-workers' preferences are typically
A) egocentric leaders
B) task-oriented leaders
C) emotional leaders
D) selfish leaders
Q3) According to Lippitt and White (1943),which leaders turn out to be the most popular with their groups?
A) Laissez-faire leaders
B) Democratic leaders
C) Leaders who score lowest on the 'least-preferred co-worker' scale
D) Leaders who can be considered 'great persons'
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Chapter 10: Prejudice and Discrimination
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Q1) Debates continue about the liberalisation of laws concerning discrimination against homosexuals.Opposing parties hurl value-laden arguments at each other that A) have resulted in a general acceptance of homosexuals B) will lead to an increase in people identifying as homosexuals C) have been used by Christians to show their great compassion D) reveal deeply entrenched homophobia in certain parts of society
Q2) Studies have revealed that prejudice is more common in A) collective societies
B) there is no such pattern
C) egalitarian societies
D) majority groups
Q3) According to Allport (1954),prejudice can be accounted for by the three-component attribute model of attitude.In this model your strong feelings about someone are the ________ component.
A) cognitive
B) affective
C) effective
D) conative
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Chapter 11: Intergroup Behaviour
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Q1) In his book The Crowd (1908),LeBon argued that people in a crowd
A) unleash primitive and homogenous behaviour
B) locate food sources before settling down
C) establish personal territories
D) relax and get to know each other
Q2) What is a limitation of the various studies examining realistic conflict theory (e.g.,Sherif's summer camp studies)?
A) There are a large number of variables operating together in these studies and thus the causal agents of the intergroup behaviour are confounded
B) The studies were conducted a long time ago and need to be replicated to verify that this effect of realistic conflict theory still exists
C) The boys in the camp all had authoritarian personalities
D) All of the above
Q3) The modern study of intergroup behaviour takes into account
A) power relationships between categories of people
B) cognitions that are influenced by a person's group membership
C) behaviour that is influenced by a person's group membership
D) all of the above
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Chapter 12: Aggression
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Q1) A study of boys and girls at Australian primary schools between 1979-1981 by Sheehan (1983),found
A) a correlation between children's television viewing habits and their level of aggressive behaviour
B) correlations between viewing violent television programs and peer-rated aggression in older children
C) stronger correlations for boys between viewing violent programs and aggression compared to girls
D) all of the above
Q2) When reviewing the empirical literature on aggression,it is good scientific practice to A) only consider studies which define and operationalise aggression in a manner consistent with our own beliefs
B) critically question whether we can generalise the findings from analogue measures of aggression to real-life settings
C) both A and B
D) none of the above
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Chapter 13: Prosocial Behaviour
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Q1) There is a relationship between increased helping and ________ and _______.
A) increased empathy; perspective taking
B) controlling one's emotions; checking for other bystanders
C) being distant from the victim; using cognitive processes
D) all of the above
Q2) A core prediction of Latane and Darley's cognitive model of bystander intervention is that
A) in an emergency, people are most likely to intervene when there are lots of people around because it will make them look good
B) in an emergency, the likelihood of bystanders intervening depends on their belief in a just-world
C) in an emergency, people will react differently according to whether or not others are present
D) none of the above
Q3) The nature-nurture controversy can be applied to prosocial behaviour by
A) comparing biological and social explanations
B) asking which gene causes people to help others
C) checking how prosocial behaviour is modelled
D) comparing the effects of conditioning with learning
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Chapter 14: Attraction and Close Relationships
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Q1) 'Voice' behaviour and 'exit' behaviour are two examples of
A) an active stance in response to the deterioration of a relationship
B) acts leading to the deterioration of a relationship
C) events in the grave-dressing phase of a relationship
D) ways to induce catharsis in a relationship
Q2) Harlow (1958)studied newborn rhesus monkeys to investigate
A) monkeys' preferences for different kinds of peanuts
B) the importance of a warm ambient temperature in their home cage
C) the effects of social isolation
D) all of the above
Q3) Attachment theory argues that love
A) is peculiar to western civilisation
B) occurs only for people who have a secure attachment style
C) is actually a social construction
D) includes both biological and social components
Q4) A meta-analysis of studies of attraction by Langlois and colleagues (2000)
A) included research that was based on evolutionary principles
B) rejected all work using qualitative methods
C) reported that females were generally less attracted to males than vice versa
D) deduced that the impact of initial attraction soon wore off
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Chapter 15: Language and Communication
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Q1) Intensifiers,hedges,tag questions and polite forms of address are
A) not used any longer
B) characteristic of powerless speech
C) typical for men addressing women
D) usually supported by non-verbal communication
Q2) The objective features of an inter-ethnic context that influence language behaviour are referred to as
A) subjective vitality
B) ethnolinguistic vitality
C) paralinguistics
D) inter-ethnic prosody
Q3) Facial display rules can be influenced by
A) gender differences
B) cultural differences
C) situational variables
D) all of the above
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Chapter 16: Culture
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Q1) Which person is NOT known to have contributed to the study of culture?
A) Boas
B) Pavlov
C) Durkheim
D) Wundt
Q2) A reason why culture has been under-emphasised by social psychologists may be because they have
A) believed that social theories are universal
B) concentrated so much on theory
C) only occasionally done field research
D) all of the above
Q3) Which of the following is NOT one of Fiske's models of a social relationship?
A) Authority ranking
B) Goal sharing
C) Communal sharing
D) Market pricing
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