Social Psychology for Educators Final Exam Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the principles and concepts of social psychology and their application within educational contexts. Students will examine how social influences, group dynamics, attitudes, stereotypes, prejudice, and interpersonal relationships impact teaching and learning processes. The course emphasizes the development of strategies for creating inclusive, motivating, and effective classroom environments, fostering positive student-teacher interactions, and addressing issues such as bullying and social identity in schools. Through case studies and practical activities, educators will gain insights into promoting a positive classroom climate and enhancing student engagement and achievement.
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Social Psychology 9th Edition by Saul Kassin
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Chapter 1: What is Social Psychology
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Q1) Raynei criticized the field of social psychology during the 1960s and 1970s.It is likely that Raynei despaired about the ability of social psychological researchers to do all of the following except A) suggest possible solutions to everyday social concerns.
B) acknowledge their role in artificially producing the results of their studies. C) consider the cultural context in which their findings were obtained.
D) design ethical experimental contexts.
Answer: A
Q2) The reference to social psychology in the 1960s and 1970s as being in the midst of "confidence and crisis" reflects an expansion in the types of issues studied by researchers, as well as increased criticism that largely came from A) sociologists.
B) fellow social psychologists.
C) the general public.
D) the popular media.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Doing Social Psychology Research
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Q1) Vito finds a correlation of -0.35 between procrastination behaviors and academic achievement.Which of the following is an appropriate conclusion for Vito to draw?
A) Procrastination leads students to perform more poorly.
B) Poor academic performance causes more procrastination.
C) Elimination of procrastination behaviors will lead students to perform better.
D) None of these
Answer: D
Q2) A study that examines existing records or databases is referred to as a A) case study.
B) archival study.
C) anecdotal study.
D) survey.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Social Self
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Q1) Which of the following is not a potential cost of the pursuit of self-esteem, as identified by Crocker and Park (2004)?
A) An increase in stress-related health problems
B) Anxiety
C) Unwanted social attention
D) Avoidance of worthwhile activities that carry a risk of failure
Answer: C
Q2) The impact bias in affective forecasting refers to the phenomenon in which A) voters predicted that they would be much happier one month after an election if the candidate for whom they voted won as opposed to lost.
B) people tend to overestimate the strength and duration of their emotional reactions to events.
C) people are generally accurate predictors of how they will feel about future events. D) people tend to underestimate how happy they will be several months after winning the lottery.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Perceiving Persons
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Q1) Traits that suggest the presence of other traits and that exert a powerful influence on final impressions are called
A) implicit traits.
B) central traits.
C) priming traits.
D) confirming traits.
Q2) Research suggests that people seem to commit the fundamental attribution error
A) only if they use the availability heuristic to make attributions.
B) only if they are unaware of the actor's feelings about the particular behavior.
C) even when they attempt to explain their own behavior.
D) even when they are aware of the situational constraints of the behavior.
Q3) The process by which people attribute humanlike mental states to various animate and inanimate objects is called
A) belief perseverance.
B) social perception.
C) nonverbal behavior.
D) mind perception.
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Chapter 5: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
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Q1) The Jets and the Sharks are two groups of local youths who regularly-and belligerently-compete against each other.The Robbers Cave experiment would suggest that one way of healing the rift between these groups is to
A) allow the youths to date each other.
B) encourage them to "air" their differences.
C) have them work together on a goal that requires cooperative efforts.
D) have each group note the good qualities of the other group.
Q2) Which of the following does not demonstrate the influence of gender stereotypes?
A) Parents see their newborn sons as stronger and more alert than their newborn daughters.
B) Parents underestimate the crawling ability of their infant girls and overestimate that of their infant boys.
C) When a baby boy cries in response to a toy, he is thought to be angry. When a baby girl exhibits the same response, she is thought to be afraid.
D) Newborn boys tend to be taller and weigh more than newborn girls.
Q3) Name at least three strategies that can be employed to reduce stereotype threat.
Q4) Describe two ways in which gender stereotypes are strengthened and maintained.
Q5) Explain how social identity theory accounts for ingroup favoritism.
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Chapter 6: Attitudes
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Q1) High self-monitors respond more to _____ advertising.
A) image-oriented
B) information-oriented
C) fact-based
D) subliminal
Q2) Which of the following would not be considered an attitude?
A) Darnell likes to play chess.
B) Daphne hates liver.
C) Daisy strongly favors universal health insurance.
D) Dalton drives a silver minivan.
Q3) Sleeper effects can be reduced by reminding people that the source of a persuasive message was not credible.This supports which explanation of sleeper effects?
A) The inoculation hypothesis
B) The discounting cue hypothesis
C) Psychological reactance theory
D) Cognitive dissonance theory
Q4) Identify and explain the process whereby the source of a message gradually loses its impact over time.
Q5) Explain the difference between the central and peripheral routes to persuasion.
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Chapter 7: Conformity
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Q1) Stan is a new student in his sixth-grade class.The other students exert normative pressure on him to conform to their opinion on some issue.According to social impact theory, Stan will be more likely to resist this influence if
A) there are 20 rather than 11 students in the class.
B) he perceives the other students as having high status.
C) there are three other new students in the class who are receiving the same pressures.
D) he comes from a culture that values a collectivist orientation.
Q2) In comparison to obedience and compliance, conformity
A) involves less direct pressure from others.
B) occurs only in response to the behavior of a group of others.
C) requires the physical presence of at least one other person.
D) is more likely to produce destructive behaviors.
Q3) Describe the factors involved in social impact theory.
Q4) Recent approaches to social impact theory suggest that
A) the effect of immediacy does not necessitate physical proximity.
B) it is more relevant to understanding conformity than to understanding obedience.
C) source strength is less important than the number of sources.
D) the strength of a source depends more on prestige than intelligence.
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Chapter 8: Group Processes
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Q1) Ringelmann's research in the 1880s demonstrated that A) people exert less effort in simple group tasks than they would if working alone.
B) the presence of other people improves performance on simple group tasks.
C) groups tend to make more extreme decisions than individuals.
D) individual performance is impaired by the distraction of an audience.
Q2) According to Zajonc's model of social facilitation, the three steps in determining the influence of the presence of others on performance are
A) arousal, dominant response, and task difficulty.
B) relaxation, elimination of apprehension, and task difficulty.
C) construal, arousal, and attribution.
D) social comparison, attribution, and justification.
Q3) The tendency for groups to become more extreme in their positions following discussion is called
A) group polarization.
B) social loafing.
C) a social dilemma.
D) social facilitation.
Q4) Discuss how GRIT can lead to the reduction of group conflict.
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Chapter 9: Attraction and Close Relationships
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Q1) Equity theory predicts that people are most satisfied in their relationships when the A) perceived rewards of the relationship are equal to the perceived costs of the relationship.
B) perceived rewards of the relationship outweigh the perceived costs of the relationship.
C) rewards and costs one partner experiences are roughly equal to those of the other partner.
D) actual rewards and costs of the relationship exceed the expected rewards and costs of the relationship.
Q2) How do people tend to cope with loneliness, and why is it important to do so?
Q3) In their relationship, Clyde is concerned with maintaining an equal ratio of rewards and costs, whereas Bonnie is concerned with being responsive to Clyde's needs.Clyde views their relationship as a(n)______ relationship, whereas Bonnie views it as a(n)______ relationship.
A) reciprocal; exchange
B) exchange; communal
C) communal; passionate
D) passionate; companionate
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Chapter 10: Helping Others
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Q1) Lydia needs people to help her by signing a petition.She can increase her chances of receiving help by
A) making herself look more attractive.
B) invoking empathy by noting she is in a bind because she waited until the last minute.
C) first putting potential helpers in a self-focused negative mood.
D) making her requests over the telephone rather than in person.
Q2) Forgas and others (2008)conducted a study on whether the mood of salespeople would affect their tendency to help.The results indicated that
A) the mood manipulation had the strongest effect on the least experienced staff.
B) the mood manipulation had no effect.
C) the mood manipulation had the strongest effect on the most experienced staff.
D) the mood manipulation had the same effect on both more experienced and less experienced staff.
Q3) Describe how moods, both good and bad, affect helping.
Q4) Explain how empathy affects helping.
Q5) Describe how the presence of bystanders affects helping.
Q6) Is there such a thing as an altruistic personality?
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Chapter 11: Aggression
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Q1) According to Smith's (2007)book about the evolutionary origins of human warfare,
A) pacifists have a greater chance for reproductive success.
B) pacifism is likely to become part of human nature.
C) warriors have a greater chance for reproductive success.
D) warriors are least likely to be accepted as part of the group
Q2) The idea that (1)frustration always elicits the motive to aggress and (2)all aggression is caused by frustration is known as
A) the frustration-aggression hypothesis.
B) the negative affect model.
C) excitation transfer theory.
D) catharsis.
Q3) Research on aggression with transsexual participants
A) indicates that gender differences in aggressive tendencies have been greatly exaggerated by previous researchers.
B) conclusively identifies a link between biology and aggression.
C) provides a rare means of ethically studying the causal effects of testosterone on human aggression.
D) All of these
Q4) Discuss the role played by arousal and affect in aggression.
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Chapter 12: Law
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Q1) All of the following are potential motivations that underlie punishment in the criminal justice system except
A) retribution.
B) incapacitation.
C) nullification.
D) deterrence.
Q2) In the case of Lockhart v.McCree, what issue did the U.S.Supreme Court consider?
A) Whether the death qualification violates a defendant's right to a fair trial
B) Whether scientific jury selection should be legal or not
C) Whether a jury should have six or 12 members
D) Whether a jury must have a unanimous verdict or not
Q3) Relative to large juries, smaller juries may spend less time deliberating mostly because they are
A) less conducive to the emergence of minority allies.
B) more likely to have a male foreperson.
C) less inclined to reach a unanimous verdict.
D) not used in trials involving complex decisions.
Q4) Summarize the means by which the polygraph works as a lie detector.What two major problems call its accuracy into question?
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Chapter 13: Business
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Q1) Which of the following is not an impediment to women trying to reach the top in executive positions?
A) Women are conflicted about juggling work and family.
B) Women gravitate toward helping professions more than competitive positions.
C) Stereotypes portray women as followers, not leaders.
D) Women have been less effective when placed in top positions.
Q2) Ken wants his managers to be better evaluators of his employees.Toward this end, he can do all of the following except
A) rely on one evaluator who is shown to be objective for all employees.
B) train his managers to sharpen their memory skills.
C) teach managers to focus attention on job-relevant behaviors.
D) minimize the time between employee performance and performance evaluation.
Q3) Bernard is an African-American professional.Research suggests fairly clearly that he will be more likely than a Caucasian professional to A) respond positively to a task-oriented leader.
B) receive more negative employee evaluations.
C) establish a mentoring relationship with a supervisor.
D) feel excluded socially from informal work groups.
Q4) How do rewards affect intrinsic motivation?
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Chapter 14: Health and Well being
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Q1) Many social psychologists refer to the concept of happiness using the phrase A) "self-efficacy."
B) "subjective well-being."
C) "relative privation."
D) "temporary disposition."
Q2) Efforts to reduce stress are known as A) appraisal.
B) coping.
C) explanatory style.
D) adaptation.
Q3) Research on the relationship between money and happiness suggests that A) upward comparisons tend to increase feelings of subjective well-being.
B) within a particular country, the wealthier citizens report significantly greater levels of happiness.
C) as the wealth of a particular country increases, the subjective well-being of its citizens increases.
D) in general, citizens of wealthier nations report greater levels of happiness.
Q4) Explain how self-focus may exacerbate the negative effects of stress, and how this may be avoided.
Q5) Discuss how attributions may be related to health.
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