Social Psychology Question Bank
Course Introduction
Social Psychology explores how individuals think, feel, and behave in social contexts, focusing on the influence of others on attitudes, perceptions, and actions. The course examines key themes such as social cognition, group dynamics, conformity, prejudice, interpersonal relationships, and the processes underlying persuasion and decision-making. Through the study of classic experiments and contemporary research, students gain insight into the psychological mechanisms driving social interaction and learn to apply theoretical concepts to real-world situations.
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Social Psychology and Human Nature Comprehensive Edition 3rd Edition by Roy F. Baumeister
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Chapter 1: The Mission and the Method
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Q1) Researchers usually test their hypotheses at the .05 level of significance.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) When people work on a task jointly with someone else (e.g., putting together a large bookcase), each person tends to put in ____________________ effort than he or she would if working alone.
Answer: less
Q3) In recent years, the line between social psychology and ____ has become especially blurred.
A) developmental psychology
B) biological psychology
C) clinical psychology
D) personality psychology
Answer: D
Q4) As discussed in the textbook, the main weakness with correlational research (as opposed to experimental research) is that the researcher cannot draw conclusions about ____________________.
Answer: cause and effect
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Chapter 2: Culture and Nature
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Q1) Across evolution, humans have competed most with ____ when trying to pass their genes passed down to subsequent generations.
A) other opposite-sex humans
B) other same-sex humans
C) other animal species
D) natural environmental forces
Answer: B
Q2) What is the most accurate statement regarding psychological processes?
A) They are mostly based on nature throughout a person's life.
B) They are based on a complex interaction between nature and culture throughout a person's life.
C) They are mostly based on nature in infancy, and mostly based on culture in childhood and adulthood.
D) They are mostly based on culture in infancy and childhood, and mostly based on nature in adulthood.
Answer: B
Q3) The two systems in the duplex mind are called the ____________________ system and the ____________________ system.
Answer: automatic deliberate,deliberate automatic
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Chapter 3: The Self
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Q1) According to the text, without society, the self ____.
A) would not exist in full.
B) would still exist in full.
C) would be purely independent.
D) would be purely interdependent.
Answer: A
Q2) As discussed in the text, one of the gymnasts who competed in the 1976 Olympics broke his leg midway through the competition but actually hid his injury from his teammates (because he did not want them to be distracted or concerned during the competition) and continued to compete (and help his team win the medal). This story is used to illustrate the notion of ____.
A) intrinsic rewards
B) an interdependent self-construal
C) social comparison
D) the looking-glass self
Answer: B
Q3) During eating binges, people's self-awareness tends to be especially high.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Choices and Actions: The Self in Control
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Q1) The so-called panic button effect refers to the tendency for people ____.
A) to experience automatic, intrusive thoughts about a goal when pursuit of that goal has been interrupted
B) to perceive negative things that happen to them as more stressful or painful than negative things that happen to other people
C) to feel relatively less stress or suffering when they think that they have the option of escaping from a situation (compared to when they think they do not have the option of escaping)
D) to give greater weight to potential losses than to potential gains when making decisions
Q2) When people make multiple demands upon themselves (when they must complete or persist at multiple tasks), their capacity for change (their willpower) sometimes seems to get "used up." Research shows that in fact, ____.
A) this effect is solely due to fatigue
B) this effect is solely due to emotions
C) this effect is solely due to attitudes about the tasks
D) willpower really does seem to get depleted; it appears that only so much willpower is available to people at a time
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Chapter 5: Social Cognition
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Q1) Counterregulation is best described as the ____ effect.
A) "what the heck"
B) "I am monitoring myself better than you are"
C) "monkey says monkey do"
D) "I knew it all along"
Q2) Polina is three years old. She is just beginning to understand concepts such as "dog," "cat," "chair," and "sofa," and to understand how these concepts differ from one another. In other words, she is just beginning ____.
A) to employ framing
B) to use heuristics
C) to develop schemas
D) to develop scripts
Q3) The tendency for people to overestimate the link between variables that are related only slightly or not at all is known as the ____.
A) conjunction fallacy
B) illusory correlation
C) representativeness heuristic
D) base rate fallacy
Q4) Describe how one might reduce cognitive errors in processing social information.
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Chapter 6: Emotion and Affect
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Q1) Briefly compare and contrast the three major theories of how emotion works: the James-Lange theory, the Cannon-Bard theory, and the Schachter-Singer theory (as well as its attendant notion of misattribution of arousal).
Q2) When a person feels badly because he or she has survived a situation that has caused much suffering to others, then the person is said to be feeling ____.
A) schadenfreude
B) survivor guilt
C) shame
D) catharsis
Q3) Rozin's research in which he presented apple juice that had been contaminated with a dead cockroach (although the roach was removed) to children and adults reveals that ____.
A) disgust is an innate emotion with little learning required
B) disgust is at least partially a learned emotion
C) disgust is innate for females, but learned for males
D) disgust is innate for males, but learned for females
Q4) Compared to affects, emotions tend to be relatively simple and automatic.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Attitudes, Beliefs and Consistency
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Q1) Research on post-trauma coping indicates that one of the worst possible things-in terms of predicting post-trauma recovery-is for people to ____.
A) blame themselves for the trauma
B) feel like there is no explanation at all for the trauma
C) feel like the trauma was fated, or predestined
D) believe that many other people have experienced similar traumas
Q2) There is a stray cat in your neighborhood that you see every few days. At first, you did not really care about the cat at all. But, over time, as you saw her more and more, you began to develop warm and fuzzy feelings toward the cat. It appears that your attitudes toward the cat shifted as a result of the ____________________ effect.
Q3) Research in social cognition has more or less suggested that evaluation is part of perception.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Briefly discuss the research on cognitive coping. When people experience traumas, what sorts of cognitive responses are likely to be most helpful in promoting recovery?
Q5) The ease with which an attitude comes to mind is called ____________________.
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Chapter 8: Social Influence and Persuasion
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Q1) The earliest studies in social psychology on persuasion were conducted by ____.
A) Leon Festinger
B) Carl Hovland
C) Elliot Aronson
D) Richard Petty
Q2) People sometimes do the exact opposite of what someone is trying to persuade them to do. For example, when parents tell their children not to look in certain drawers or cabinets, children sometimes sneak peeks into these places just because they were told not to. In social psychology, this effect is known as "the boomerang effect," or ____.
A) the inoculation effect
B) negative attitude change
C) the halo effect
D) the sleeper effect
Q3) McGuire's work on resisting persuasion is known as ____ theory.
A) elaboration likelihood
B) heuristic-systematic
C) inoculation
D) boomerang
Q4) The labeling technique is based on ____________________ principles.
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Chapter 9: Prosocial Behavior: Doing Whats Best for Others
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Q1) Charlene feels empathy for children orphaned in the Sudan, and so she develops a charity to help them. Charlene loves the praise she receives for her efforts and takes great pride in the work she does. Charlene's behavioral motivation aligns most closely with the ____.
A) empathy-altruism hypothesis
B) empathy-specific reward hypothesis
C) empathy-specific punishment hypothesis
D) negative state relief hypothesis
Q2) ____________________ is going along with the crowd.
Q3) Equity is another word for equality; the equity norm and the equality norm are the same thing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The text defines prosocial behavior as ____.
A) any helping behavior
B) any behavior that is good for other people or for society as a whole
C) conformity
D) behavior that does not benefit oneself
Q5) Describe the features that tend to promote cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma game.
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Chapter 10: Aggression and Antisocial Behavior
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of hostile aggression?
A) Mr. W fantasizes about punching his enemy in the face.
B) Mr. X accidentally knocks his friend over a balcony.
C) Mr. Y intentionally humiliates an annoying co-worker.
D) Dr. Z gives a patient a painful injection.
Q2) Much research has demonstrated a link between depression and low levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin. Therefore, one might speculate that, on average, people who are depressed ____.
A) may be more aggressive than other people
B) may be less aggressive than other people
C) may have higher testosterone levels than other people
D) may have lower testosterone levels than other people
Q3) The idea that people use aggression as a way to relate to others highlights the ____ nature of aggression.
A) antisocial
B) social
C) direct
D) indirect
Q4) Why should aggression be understood as a form of social influence?
Q5) What are the characteristics of people who frequently swear?
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Chapter 11: Attraction and Exclusion
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Q1) The situation in which Person X loves Person Y, but Person Y does not love Person X, is known as ____.
A) eponymous love
B) anonymous love
C) unrequited love
D) unrivalled love
Q2) In the immediate aftermath of social rejection, people tend to respond in several predictable ways. Which of the following is NOT one of the typical (temporary) responses?
A) Experiencing a feeling of numbness, or "nothingness"
B) Being "stupid" in terms of complex cognitive tasks
C) Showing a high degree of self-regulation
D) Being especially attuned to social cues and information about others
Q3) Research shows that, among men, high levels of testosterone are associated with risk-taking and competitiveness ____.
A) but are not associated with a high sex drive
B) but are not associated with unstable marriage
C) and are also associated with a disinclination to marry and care for children
D) and are also associated with depression
Q4) Social exclusion can also be called ____________________.
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Chapter 12: Close Relationships: Passion, Intimacy, and Sexuality
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Q1) How does self-esteem relate to longevity of relationships?
A) People with low self-esteem tend to have relationships that last longer.
B) People with high self-esteem tend to have relationships that last longer.
C) Self-esteem is more or less unrelated to relationship longevity.
D) This depends on gender; high self-esteem is related to relationship longevity among women, but not among men.
Q2) In Sternberg's triangular theory of love, passion, intimacy, and commitment refer to three different types of love.
A)True
B)False
Q3) People are often suspicious that their partners are cheating on them. How often are these suspicions unfounded? That is, how common is it for people to be suspicious about their spouses cheating when in fact their spouses have in fact been faithful?
A) Extremely common-about 90% of suspicions are unfounded.
B) Very common-about 75% of suspicions are unfounded
C) Somewhat common-about 30-40% of suspicions are unfounded.
D) Not that common-about 10-15% of suspicions are unfounded.
Q4) Is sex better within the context of marriage or when one is single?
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Q5) Regarding yourself as a good person "as is" is known as
Chapter 13: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations
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Q1) Which of the following statements BEST summarizes the relationship between salience and stereotype formation?
A) Salience is necessary but not sufficient for the formation of stereotypes.
B) Salience is necessary and sufficient for the formation of stereotypes.
C) Salience is sufficient for the formation of stereotypes, but not necessary (i.e., because stereotypes can be formed in the absence of salience as well).
D) Salience is neither necessary nor sufficient for the formation of stereotypes.
Q2) Which of the following refers to the tendency that some people have to simultaneously (a) hold egalitarian values, and (b) experience negative feelings, or feelings of disease, when interacting with minority groups?
A) aversive racism
B) social dominance orientation
C) contact hypothesis
D) discontinuity effect
Q3) Technically speaking, the term "homophobia" refers to excessive ____________________ of homosexuals or homosexual behavior.
Q4) To what degree are stereotypes accurate?
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Chapter 14: Groups
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Q1) According to your text, who probably laughs the most?
A) Justin, the CEO of a successful business
B) Nicole, the chairman of the board of a bank
C) Amber, the secretary at a large corporation
D) Jena, a famous actress with lots of political clout
Q2) As described in the text, ____ was at the core of the fascist movements of the first half of the twentieth century.
A) deindividuation
B) social facilitation
C) optimal distinctiveness
D) social loafing
Q3) People who are high in power tend to ____.
A) laugh more often than people low in power
B) tell funnier jokes than people low in power
C) laugh less often than people low in power
D) tell jokes that are not as funny as people low in power
Q4) Groups tend to be especially ineffective when they use transactive memory.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the qualities of leaders that are "toxic" for their followers?
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Chapter 15: Applying Social Psychology to Consumer Behavior
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Q1) People tend to buy more expensive wine when a restaurant offers valet parking as opposed to when it doesn't. This is an example of consumers being influenced via ____.
A) unconscious thought processes
B) central route processing
C) what Maslow would call physiological needs
D) polychronic activity
Q2) Many consumers today are feeling time compression, leading them to select products that will alleviate time pressure. In consumer psychology terminology, this phenomenon is called ____.
A) time poverty
B) the commons dilemma
C) polychronic poverty
D) time shrinkage
Q3) When consumers experience loud music, in-store crowding, or other shopping stressors, they tend to ____.
A) enact their dominant response
B) enact their non-dominant response
C) purchase more
D) purchase less
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Chapter 16: Applying Social Psychology to Health
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Q1) Amira notices a lump in her breast, but convinces herself that it was always there. As she continues to examine her breasts monthly, the lump remains and seems larger, but each time Amira finds a way to explain it away--the lump is just a result of the uncomfortable bra she was wearing, the lump is connected to her menstrual cycle, and so forth. In fact, she never has the lump investigated because she interprets the lump in terms of her belief that she is "healthy." Amira has succumbed to which social psychological error in thinking?
A) confirmation bias
B) attribution
C) self-fulfilling prophecy
D) chronic negative affect
Q2) According to the general adaptation syndrome, long-term stressors ____.
A) can cause physiological (but not psychological) damage
B) can cause psychological (but not physiological) damage
C) can cause both physiological and psychological damage
D) have temporary negative effects, but cannot cause either physiological damage or psychological damage
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Chapter 17: Applying Social Psychology to the Workplace
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Q1) Mia has pictures of half-naked men all over her cubicle, and she is constantly making lewd jokes about sex and men as sex objects. Mia is engaged in ____.
A) affective commitment
B) quid pro quo harassment
C) hostile work environment harassment
D) leadership
Q2) Sally dislikes her job and feels little obligation to her employer to stick with her position. However, the pay and benefits are excellent, so she has decided to stick with the job because it would be impossible to replace that income and benefits in the present job market. Sally has high ____ commitment.
A) affective
B) normative
C) continuance
D) can-do
Q3) The process organizations use to identify potential employees for a job is ____.
A) job analysis
B) organizational socialization
C) recruitment
D) performance review
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Chapter 18: Applying Social Psychology to the Law
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Q1) Delaying a trial is known as a(n) ____.
A) change of venue
B) continuance
C) foil
D) blank lineup
Q2) Suppose that, during jury selection for a criminal trial, defense lawyer Wickens decides that she does not want a potential juror named Bob Strange on the jury. He seems unpredictable to her, but potentially likely to favor the prosecution. She therefore tells the judge that she would like to have Bob removed from the jury panel (without stating her reasoning). It would appear that Bob is being removed via the process of
A) venire
B) voir dire
C) challenge for cause
D) peremptory challenge
Q3) The jury pool in the United States is known as a(n) ____.
A) venire
B) voir dire
C) implicit panel
D) challenger board
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Chapter 19: Applying Social Psychology to the Environment
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Q1) The concepts of sensory overload and cognitive control are related to crowding in that sensory overload tends to ____ crowding and cognitive control tends to ____ crowding.
A) accompany; inhibit the experience of B) accompany; also accompany
C) inhibit the experience of; also inhibit the experience of D) inhibit the experience of; accompany
Q2) Which of the following is the best example of the one-person trap?
A) Excessive consumption of limited energy resources
B) Overeating
C) Drunk driving
D) Failing to report a witness in a murder
Q3) One of the key barriers to solving environmental problems such as overpopulation and global warming is ____.
A) rule of law
B) the fundamental attribution error
C) sensory overload
D) the commons dilemma
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