Social Psychology
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Course Introduction
Social Psychology explores how individuals think, feel, and behave in social contexts. This course examines the psychological processes underlying social influence, group dynamics, attitudes, persuasion, conformity, prejudice, aggression, and prosocial behavior. By analyzing classic studies and current research, students gain insight into how culture, society, and interpersonal relationships shape human behavior, fostering an understanding of both individual and collective actions in a diverse and interconnected world.
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Social Psychology Goals in Interaction 6th Edition by Douglas Kenrick
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Social Psychology
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Q1) A social psychologist who combines a correlational study,a laboratory experiment,and a field experiment to test the same hypothesis so that she can be sure of her conclusions is
A) using too many different methods.
B) wasting her time.
C) taking a "full cycle" approach.
D) confounding her results.
Answer: C
Q2) You weigh 150 pounds.You step on the scale at the gym and it says you weigh 180.You weigh yourself on the same scale the next three days and each time it says you weigh 180.The scale at the gym appears to be a measure that is ________,but not
A) valid; accurate
B) reliable; valid
C) definitive; accurate
D) valid; reliable
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Person and the Situation
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Q1) Individuals who are bicultural find that their internalized cultures "take turns" influencing their behavior.According to your book,the determination of which culture to follow is at least partially dependent upon A) the person's mood.
B) which goal they are focused on.
C) the situation.
D) how they perceive themselves.
Answer: C
Q2) Define attitude and provide an example.
Answer: An attitude is a favorable or unfavorable evaluation of a person,object,event,or idea.
Q3) Candela subscribes to norms that emphasize independence,fending for oneself,and achieving whatever heights one aspires to.Candela is most likely from A) a collectivistic culture.
B) a traditional culture.
C) an individualistic culture.
D) a pluralistic culture.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Social Cognition: Understanding Ourselves and Others
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Q1) Aline is in love with Carlos.According to the covariation model,which of the following combinations of consensus,distinctiveness,and consistency information would lead you to attribute her love to something special about Carlos (situational attribution)?
A) Consensus is low, distinctiveness is low, and consistency is high.
B) Consensus is high, distinctiveness is high, and consistency is high.
C) Consensus is low, distinctiveness is high, and consistency is high.
D) Consensus is high, distinctiveness is low, and consistency is low.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a cognitive simplification strategy?
A) expectation confirmation
B) anchoring and adjusting
C) downward social comparison
D) dispositional inferences
Answer: C
Q3) Individuals tend to seek information that can potentially disconfirm their expectations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Presenting the Self
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Q1) You notice that John,one of your classmates,often pays compliments to your friends only to get them to form a more positive impression of him.When John pays you a compliment,
A) you are likely to recognize it as flattery and not to be affected by it.
B) you will probably form an even more negative impression of John.
C) you will probably accept his compliments as sincere and start to like him more.
D) your friends are not likely to recognize it as a flattery.
Q2) People present themselves more modestly to friends than to strangers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following behaviors would be LESS likely to convey high status and power?
A) acting aggressively
B) buying expensive products
C) smiling and maintaining eye contact when listening
D) associating yourself with others who already possess status and power
Q4) Some situations are more likely to evoke self-presentation behaviors than others.Discuss the situational factors related to the goals of appearing likable,appearing competent,and conveying status and power.
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Chapter 5: Attitudes and Persuasion
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Q1) The desire to make accurate judgments is highest
A) when the topic is of low personal relevance.
B) when the person is in a happy mood.
C) when a person is self-confident.
D) before a decision is made.
Q2) When should you try to change someone's attitudes through central processing of the message?
A) when your arguments are weak
B) when your goal is to achieve temporary attitude change
C) when the audience has a low need for cognition
D) when your goal is to achieve attitude change that is resistant to counterattacks
Q3) Jack and Jill go to a party,and they both meet Muhammed,who has political views that oppose their own.After they hear Muhammed give his perspective of current politics,Jack is likely to respond,"________," whereas Jill is more likely to respond,"________."
A) That's interesting; I disagree
B) I disagree; That's interesting
C) Let's discuss this a little bit further; I disagree
D) I disagree; I strongly disagree
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Chapter 6: Social Influence: Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
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Q1) Describe the method of participant observation,and provide an example.
Q2) Robert Cialdini,one of your textbook authors,engaged in a type of systematic natural observation called participant observation.Using this methodology,he
A) drew conclusions from data that he retrieved from archives.
B) asked participants in an experiment to observe other participants and to record their conclusions.
C) disguised his identity and enrolled in the training programs of compliance professionals.
D) experimented on humans in the laboratory, where he observed behavior as an experimental participant.
Q3) The norm of reciprocity is found only in Western cultures.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The more ambiguous the problem or decision in a group,the more likely group members will conform to one another's views.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define conformity,compliance,and obedience.Give an example of each.
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Chapter 7: Affiliation and Friendship
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Q1) What is health psychology? What are some of the harmful effects of isolation on physical health,including risk for second heart attacks?
Q2) Rashad is hanging out with a bright young man named Sean when Rashad learns that he also has made the Dean's List for outstanding grades.According to the ________ model,Rashad will probably start to like Sean more after this occurrence.
A) operant conditioning
B) similarity-liking
C) social exchange
D) reinforcement-affect
Q3) Avoiding,and coming to dislike,people with whom we associate negative feelings is a central premise of the ________ model of affiliative behavior.
A) social learning
B) social cognitive
C) reinforcement-affect
D) affiliation-conditioning
Q4) How are exchange relationships different in Western and non-Western cultures,and why are they different?
Q5) Define authority ranking exchange relationships and provide an example.
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Chapter 8: Love and Romantic Relationships
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Q1) Hatfield and Rapson (1996)define which kind of love as "the affection and tenderness we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined"?
A) decision/commitment love
B) companionate love
C) sexual love
D) passionate love
Q2) Tremenitia finds it relatively easy to get close to others and never worries about being abandoned.Tremenitia's attachment style is
A) secure.
B) anxious/ambivalent.
C) avoidant.
D) permissive.
Q3) McKinley is an infant who easily expresses affection with her attachment figure and doesn't seem to worry about being abandoned.She most likely possesses a/an ________ attachment style.
A) secure
B) detached
C) anxious/ambivalent
D) avoidant
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Chapter 9: Prosocial Behavior
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Q1) The social rule that people should help those who need help is called
A) the diffusion of responsibility norm.
B) the social responsibility norm.
C) bystander intervention.
D) inclusive fitness.
Q2) People with high self-esteem are more likely to ask for help when they need it than people with low self-esteem.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Imagine that you participate in an experiment where you are in a private cubicle from which you communicate with other students over an intercom.Suddenly you hear over the intercom that a student is starting to have an epileptic seizure.According to research,you will be most likely to leave your cubicle and try to help if
A) you are the only person who can hear the seizure.
B) there is one other person connected to the intercom who can hear the seizure.
C) there are four other people connected to the intercom who can hear the seizure.
D) you don't know the person who is having the seizure.
Q4) Describe the bystander effect and provide an example.
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Chapter 10: Aggression
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Q1) In Bandura's famous "Bobo Doll" experiments,children
A) were afraid of the Bobo Doll due to associations with violence.
B) who watched a model get rewarded for punching the Bobo Doll imitated the behavior of the model and punched the doll.
C) who watched a model get punished for punching the Bobo Doll imitated the behavior of the model and punched the doll.
D) only punched the Bobo Doll if they were offered a reward for doing so.
Q2) The weapons effect is most closely tied to the
A) original frustration-aggression hypothesis.
B) reformulated frustration-aggression hypothesis.
C) cognitive neoassociationist theory.
D) two-factor theory.
Q3) Which is an example of a person-situation interaction?
A) Little Sally has a tendency to break her dolls and other toys.
B) Rosa acts aggressively in a game only when images of weapons are present in the room.
C) Pain tends to increase aggressive behavior.
D) none of these
Q4) What is a psychopath,and how might psychopathy be related to aggression?
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Chapter 11: Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
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Q1) Ingroup bias is
A) limited to situations in which groups must compete for resources.
B) a cross-cultural feature of human social life.
C) found mostly in less developed nations.
D) a phenomenon that has become a problem only in recent centuries.
Q2) Which of the following statements is FALSE about authoritarianism?
A) Tendencies toward authoritarianism may be passed down genetically.
B) Authoritarian people are likely to follow society's conventions and rules.
C) Authoritarianism is associated with prejudice toward members of outgroups.
D) Authoritarianism tends to decrease when persons experience frustrating negative events.
Q3) The text defines prejudices as
A) generalized attitudes toward members of social groups.
B) generalized beliefs about members of social groups.
C) behaviors directed toward people on the basis of their group membership.
D) all of the above
Q4) Describe three goal-based strategies that can guide us in attempts to reduce prejudice,stereotyping,and discrimination.Provide examples that illustrate each.
Q5) Define prejudice and provide an example.
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Chapter 12: Groups
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Q1) Imagine you are the manager of a new work team that has been inefficient in the past,largely because of a lack of group structure.Name and describe three key features of group structure that you could impose on the group in order to remedy this problem.
Q2) Describe transactive memory and how it can improve accuracy in decisions.
Q3) Imagine that you are teaching a first grade class and you want your students to keep working on their task even when you are not in the room.Which of the following should you do?
A) Decide dictatorially which task the children should work on.
B) Encourage the children as a group to decide which task to work on.
C) Give candies to the children who work on the task while you are in the room.
D) Punish children who do not work on the task while you are in the room.
Q4) The text lists all of the following as goals for joining groups EXCEPT
A) to gain positions of leadership.
B) to seek mental efficiency.
C) to get things done.
D) to make accurate acquire and share information.
Q5) Name and describe the two personality characteristics mentioned in the book that are related to the desire to become a leader.
Q6) What is social facilitation? Provide an example.
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Chapter 13: Social Dilemmas: Cooperation versus Conflict
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Q1) Two countries are in conflict over a piece of land.Which of the following tactics would be most consistent with a GRIT strategy to reduce the conflict?
A) One country concedes a small part of the land and challenges the other country to match it.
B) One country tells the other that they will attack if their demands are not met.
C) One country concedes all their territory in response to a promise from the other side to be peaceful.
D) One country attacks the other and then challenges them to fight back.
Q2) The tit-for-tat strategy involves responding to cooperation with cooperation and competitiveness with competitiveness.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Overpopulation,destruction of the environment,and international conflict are examples of
A) prisoner's dilemmas.
B) social dilemmas.
C) game strategies.
D) individual-level problems.
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Chapter 14: Integrating Social Psychology
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Q1) Converging evidence helps social psychologists increase their confidence in their research findings.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Sue wants to be a biologist but thinks her biology professor,Dr.Wu,is wrong in her opinions about what kind of research is important.But when Sue goes to Dr.Wu's office,she is very friendly.Sue is acting friendly because she's concentrating on her ________ goal of getting a good grade rather than her ________ goal of becoming a renowned biologist.
A) larger; narrow
B) narrow; focused
C) proximate; ultimate
D) selfish; selfless
Q3) Cherie is kissed by Humroy.Whether or not Cherie feels this kiss is rewarding or punishing depends primarily on
A) the social context and the goals that are activated at the time.
B) Cherie's current mood state.
C) the relevance for Cherie of the social motive of maintaining status.
D) sociocultural factors.
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