Social Psychology Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Social Psychology explores the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. The course examines fundamental concepts such as social perception, attitudes, group dynamics, conformity, persuasion, prejudice, aggression, and interpersonal relationships. Through research-based discussions and real-world examples, students will gain insight into the processes that shape individual and group behavior within a societal context, enhancing their understanding of the psychological mechanisms underlying social interaction.
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Social Psychology 7th Australia Edition by Graham
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M. Vaughan
Chapter 1: Introducing Social Psychology
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Q1) Discourse analysis
A) is a form of qualitative analysis
B) treats data as text
C) is a method used by some critics of conventional social psychology
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) You are interested in the effects of visual feedback on how people respond when they meet a stranger.Half of your participants see a videotape of their own facial reactions when they meet a stranger; the other half does not see a videotape.You then ask all participants how positively they felt about their encounter with the stranger.The independent variable in your investigation is
A) the stranger
B) visual feedback
C) you as the researcher
D) none of the above; this is a correlational rather than an experimental study
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Social Cognition and Social Thinking
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Q1) Social cognition is a field of social psychology dealing with how A) attitudes need to be cognitively consistent
B) genes influence our thinking
C) we construct a self-image
D) thought processes are linked to social contexts and social behaviour
Answer: D
Q2) Asch (1946)found that some traits (central traits)perceived in others strongly affect how we decide if other traits also apply.For example,we are more likely to judge Mary as 'generous' if we also believe that she is
A) 'warm'
B) 'cold'
C) 'polite'
D) both A and B
Answer: A
Q3) 'Cognitive misers' are people who
A) do not make much effort when they make judgements
B) think that everyone is after their possessions
C) have great difficulty in relating emotionally to others
D) are short on brain power
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Attribution and Social Explanation
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Q1) The assumption that the outcomes of behaviour were intended by the person who chose the behaviour is known as
A) outcome bias
B) illusion of control
C) false consensus effect
D) ethnocentrism
Answer: A
Q2) Self-enhancing,self-protecting and self-handicapping actions are
A) quite unrelated
B) characteristics of a neurotic personality
C) very rare events
D) self-serving biases
Answer: D
Q3) By deciding that something is due to 'luck' a person makes a(n)
A) external-unstable attribution
B) stable-controllable attribution
C) external-stable attribution
D) internal-unstable attribution
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Self and Identity
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Q1) Studies suggest that people in Western cultures conceptualise the self as _________ while people in Eastern cultures tend to conceptualise the self as
A) ingroup; outgroup
B) materialistic; cultural
C) independent; interdependent
D) none of the above
Q2) When people use strategies to match their behaviour to an 'ought' or an 'ideal' standard,they engage in
A) downward social comparison
B) self-regulation
C) self-discrepancy
D) framing
Q3) The concepts of self and identity
A) allow humans to predict what others think
B) allow humans to predict what others do
C) provide humans with guidelines about how they should behave
D) all of the above
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Chapter 5: Attitudes
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Q1) If you distrust psychiatrists,you are likely to respond more quickly on a reaction-time task when the word 'psychiatrist' is paired with the word 'harmful' than if it's paired with the word 'helpful'.This principle is the basis of the
A) TRA
B) IAT
C) TPB
D) HSM
Q2) 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
Q3) In social psychological research,'moderator variables' include
A) each and every dependent variable
B) all variables that are held constant
C) situational and personality variables
D) any intervening variable
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Chapter 6: Persuasion and Attitude Change
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Q1) A distributor of security alarms keeps telling you daily on the radio that 'you don't just need one - you need two! One for the house and one for the car.' Hearing this every day is likely to make you
A) think that he is exaggerating the rate of house break-ins
B) feel insecure
C) begin to believe that this is true
D) want to sell your house
Q2) You see a qualified medical doctor and an unqualified physical health promoter present on the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle.Both are very convincing,although their arguments differ slightly.Knowing what you do about the importance of source credibility,you obviously tend to believe the arguments of the medical doctor rather than the health promoter.However,after about a year you find yourself talking to a friend about why they should be living a healthier lifestyle,and without realising it you are forcefully putting forward the arguments of both the medical doctor and the health promoter you saw present a year earlier.This is an example of
A) terror management theory
B) protection motivation theory
C) the inverted U-curve
D) the sleeper effect
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Chapter 7: Social Influence
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Q1) In a conformity experiment by Deutsch and Gerard (1955),which of the following caused people to be more susceptible to group pressure?
A) When they were uncertain in their judgement
B) When the group had a goal
C) When they had visual contact with the group
D) All of the above
Q2) A poster of the Brown Eyed Beans adorns Nicky's bedroom wall.Although Nicky's voice is not the best,she does sing their songs,and she wears a jacket modelled on that worn by members of the band.For Nicky,the Brown Eyed Beans are a(n)
A) ingroup
B) positive reference group
C) membership group
D) outgroup
Q3) Overall,minorities can be more influential if they can
A) be considered by the majority as a despised outgroup
B) be considered by the majority as part of the ingroup
C) ridicule the majority until the majority can't stand to be around the minority
D) picket and rally until the majority have to fight back
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Chapter 8: People in Groups
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Q1) Interestingly,a theory that deals with how one perceives oneself can be applied to account for social facilitation.This theory is based on
A) self-enhancement
B) self-denial
C) self-awareness
D) none of the above
Q2) If we use a drive theory explanation of social facilitation we would argue that
A) social presence can impair performance
B) social presence can improve performance
C) an audience distracts a performer
D) both A and B
Q3) According to Zajonc's drive theory of social facilitation
A) social facilitation follows a correct dominant response
B) social inhibition occurs when a dominant response is incorrect
C) the presence of others produces arousal
D) all of the above
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Chapter 9: Leadership and Decision Making
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a decision-making strategy within normative distribution theory?
A) Autocratic
B) Consultative
C) Group decision making
D) Democratic
Q2) When an approach integrates leadership styles with situational requirements we have an example of a
A) situational balance theory
B) great person theory
C) neo-associationist approach
D) contingency theory
Q3) Cross-cultural research on leadership style has shown that
A) there is variation concerning how certain leader behaviours are viewed
B) maintenance behaviours are universally valued
C) performance behaviours are universally valued
D) all of the above
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Chapter 10: Prejudice and Discrimination
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Q1) In times when sex-typical roles are being renegotiated,one predicted outcome is that
A) there will be a considerable change in sex stereotypes
B) traditionally male roles taken up by women will be devalued
C) women will increasingly enter masculine roles
D) all of the above
Q2) Discrimination,sometimes unintentional,is involved in the case of
A) failing to provide ramp access into public buildings
B) underfunding for research into mental illness
C) denying homosexual couples the right to marry
D) all of the above
Q3) Reverse discrimination
A) has been shown to have long-lasting positive effects on the minority group
B) is a genuine attempt to rectify disadvantage
C) counteracts tokenism
D) can be difficult to distinguish from an honest attempt to improve a situation
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Chapter 11: Intergroup Behaviour
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Q1) The process of intergroup conflict resolution whereby a neutral third party intervenes in the negotiation process to facilitate a settlement is referred to as
A) arbitration
B) conciliation
C) mediation
D) bargaining
Q2) Helga has been living here for almost a decade now.Despite her German accent she sees herself as a local.Her group identification is at the core of
A) self-categorisation
B) groupthink
C) identity loss
D) deindividuation
Q3) The relative homogeneity effect occurs when we treat
A) everyone to a jolly good time
B) our relatives in exactly the same way
C) our own group as more heterogeneous than outgroups
D) someone as a prototypical embodiment of the group
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Chapter 12: Aggression
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Q1) Merely having a weapon at hand increases the likelihood that it will be used.This notion is referred to as
A) the aggression-likelihood model
B) the weapons effect
C) a subculture of violence
D) the fighting instinct syndrome
Q2) Linz,Donnerstein & Penrod (1988)found that when women were depicted enjoying violent pornography
A) men were later more willing to aggress
B) men were later more willing to aggress but only against women
C) men were later more willing to aggress but only against men
D) none of the above
Q3) Two aspects of our physical environment that have been reliably implicated in increasing levels of aggression are
A) heat and economic slumps
B) heat and crowding
C) crowding and economic slumps
D) none of the above
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Chapter 13: Prosocial Behaviour
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Q1) An attempt to gain compliance by first doing someone a favour can be referred to as
A) the reciprocity principle
B) the social responsibility norm
C) social compensation
D) none 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
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Chapter 14: Attraction and Close Relationships
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Q1) People use various cognitive tactics to maintain a close relationship.They may
A) play up their partner's virtues and play down their faults
B) work to match their view that their partner is actually close to ideal
C) expect less from their partner
D) all of the above
Q2) Kulik and colleagues (1996)studied pre-operative cardiac patients,finding that they talked
A) more to nurses than to doctors
B) more when there was no one was listening
C) about the weather more than their impending surgery
D) more to their roommate when that patient was a cardiac rather than a non-cardiac patient
Q3) Finding a person more attractive the more we see them is a function of A) similarity
B) the mere exposure effect
C) the reinforcement model
D) the gain-loss hypothesis
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Chapter 15: Language and Communication
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Q1) One of the fundamental reasons why language and cognition are linked is because A) language involves the use of the brain
B) we tend to perceive and think about things in linguistic categories
C) learning a variety of languages has been shown to make you smarter
D) all of the above
Q2) Which of the following is NOT an example of non-verbal communication?
A) Hedges
B) Gaze
C) Touch
D) Gestures
Q3) Sophia is Colombian and moves to the United States where she learns English as a second language.Sophia is very proud of her Colombian heritage and,as such,she does not make a concerted effort to get rid of her Colombian accent when speaking English.This demonstrates that
A) speech styles can be influenced by the pride an individual takes in their ethnic identity
B) speech styles can be difficult to change
C) the United States is a good place to learn English
D) all of the above
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Chapter 16: Culture
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Q1) An early precursor of social psychology as the study of the collective mind was A) anthropometry
B) the Athenian model
C) ethnography
D) Völkerpsychologie
Q2) The issue surrounding whether diverse cultures can co-exist together as a society is conceptualised as
A) generative psychology
B) the multicultural challenge
C) indigenous psychology
D) the social identity challenge
Q3) A study of help-seeking behaviour by either kibbutz dwellers or city dwellers (Nadler,1986)showed that
A) help-seeking has a strong sociocultural component
B) kibbutz dwellers relied only on their fellow kibbutz members
C) help-seeking can be tied to personality traits
D) city dwellers were more likely to seek help
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