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Which of the following is one of the central ideas of social psychology? |
| | A) | Natural selection shapes behaviour |
| | B) | Adaptation is central to behaviour |
| | C) | Social structure and organization are essential to human development |
| | D) | Attitudes shape behaviour and behaviour shapes attitudes |
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Given that social thinking, social influence, and social relations are among the "big ideas" that are important in social psychology, what is noteworthy about the concept of social relations? |
| | A) | Social behaviour is also biological behaviour |
| | B) | We construct our own social reality |
| | C) | Social influences shape behaviour |
| | D) | Dispositions shape behaviour |
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One reason someone might not study hard for their first test in this class is? |
| | A) | They believe they are too smart for the class |
| | B) | They think they don't need to study |
| | C) | They don't worry about grades |
| | D) | Social psychology seems obvious because of the hindsight bias |
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Who is most likely to ask: "How do brain, mind, and behaviour function together as one coordinated system?" |
| | A) | an evolutionary psychologist |
| | B) | a social psychologist |
| | C) | a social neuroscientist |
| | D) | a biological psychologist |
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What might one call an idea such as "a child's gender development is directly related to their cognitive development"? |
| | A) | A hypothesis |
| | B) | A theory |
| | C) | A fact |
| | D) | An experiment |
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A researcher, interested in whether the mere presence of others affects individual behaviour, designs a study in which individuals are asked to make a speech to either an empty room or a room with five people in it. This type of study is best described as __________. |
| | A) | a correlational study |
| | B) | field research |
| | C) | a case study |
| | D) | a laboratory experiment |
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An investigator, who wishes to study the attitudes of people in New Brunswick, identifies 1,000 people in New Brunswick, taking care that the percentages of male and female, young and old, education level, and occupation are the same in the sample as in the province's total population. What kind of sample is the investigator trying to obtain? |
| | A) | an independent sample |
| | B) | a dependent sample |
| | C) | a random sample |
| | D) | a representative sample |
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After being asked to describe who you are, you say your gender, age, political preference, personality traits, and other information you think is relevant. You are describing your |
| | A) | possible selves. |
| | B) | self-concept. |
| | C) | idealized self. |
| | D) | realized-self. |
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Ed feels like everyone in his lecture hall noticed that he didn't have time to wash his hair, when in reality almost nobody looked at Ed. What is this belief called? |
| | A) | Idealized self |
| | B) | The spotlight effect |
| | C) | The personal fable |
| | D) | Egocentrism |
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Victor is a fourth-year student, mentoring a younger student. He is surprised when the younger student's great success makes him feel bad. Why might Victor be feeling this way? |
| | A) | Conceit |
| | B) | Social identity |
| | C) | Self-reference |
| | D) | Social comparison |
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A person from a collectivist culture would most likely value which of the following? |
| | A) | Their self-esteem |
| | B) | Harmonious relationships |
| | C) | Their perceptual abilities |
| | D) | Their personal sense of accomplishment |
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Bruce tells his girlfriend "If you don't tell me I'm the best-looking guy you've ever gone out with, the best dresser, the best dancer, the smartest, and have the nicest car, I'll have to break up with you." Which of the following best describes Bruce's behaviour? |
| | A) | Antisocial personality disorder |
| | B) | High self-esteem |
| | C) | High narcissism |
| | D) | Achievement motivation |
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Sometimes, when a person has repeat failure experiences in several different areas of their life, they feel overwhelmed with problems, and they feel hopeless to solve their problems, they lose motivation to better themselves. What is this effect called? |
| | A) | Unrealistic optimism |
| | B) | A self-serving bias |
| | C) | Learned helplessness |
| | D) | An increase in self-monitoring |
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Which of the following best describes people who seem to change behaviour and attitudes to fit every situation they're in? |
| | A) | Low self-monitors |
| | B) | High self-monitors |
| | C) | To be using the self-serving bias |
| | D) | High in self-efficacy |
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When you arrive late for work your boss assumes this is because you're not a punctual person. Why did your boss assume this? |
| | A) | Learned helplessness |
| | B) | The spotlight effect |
| | C) | Unrealistic optimism |
| | D) | Fundamental attribution |
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Which action is most likely to bring about an event? |
| | A) | perceiving events |
| | B) | judging events |
| | C) | explaining events |
| | D) | expecting events |
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Research has shown that participants who were presented with aging-related words on a sentence completion task were later observed walking to an elevator slower than subjects who were not presented with aging-related words. What effect does this demonstrate? |
| | A) | Situations |
| | B) | Priming |
| | C) | Self-monitoring |
| | D) | Perception |
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If you showed identical research to proponents and opponents of gun control, what outcome would you expect to see? |
| | A) | Each side would become more extreme in their original position. |
| | B) | Each side would become more neutral in their views. |
| | C) | Both sides would view gun control more positively. |
| | D) | Both sides would view gun control more negatively. |
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After the movie Jaws came out, and again in the early 1990s after "Summer of the Shark," many people were afraid to go in the ocean. What may have caused this? |
| | A) | The representative heuristic |
| | B) | Belief perseverance |
| | C) | The availability heuristic |
| | D) | The confirmation bias |
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"It always rains after I wash the car," Is an example of what effect? |
| | A) | Inferential statistics |
| | B) | The confirmation bias |
| | C) | An illusory correlation |
| | D) | A positive correlation |
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Research by Allan Wicker (1969) found that |
| | A) | expressed attitudes hardly ever predict behaviour. |
| | B) | expressed attitudes almost always predict behaviour. |
| | C) | implicit attitudes are more likely than expressed attitudes to predict behaviour. |
| | D) | expressed attitudes are more likely than implicit attitudes to predict behaviour. |
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Which of the following is an important lesson of role-playing studies? |
| | A) | It takes a strong personality to withstand social pressure. |
| | B) | What is unreal can evolve into what is real. |
| | C) | Most participants remain aware that the situation is unreal. |
| | D) | We are powerless to resist imposed roles. |
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What is the term used to describe when one's our behaviour is out of sync with their attitudes? |
| | A) | Attitude incongruity |
| | B) | Cognitive congruity |
| | C) | Attitude inoculation |
| | D) | Cognitive dissonance |
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Self-presentation theory argues that people will adopt attitudes consistent with behaviours for what reason? |
| | A) | figure out the dominant response |
| | B) | reduce tension |
| | C) | determine how they should behave |
| | D) | create good impressions |
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A teenager is out with her friends at the mall. Although she doesn't believe in shoplifting, when they all take earrings and put them in their pockets, she does as well. What will she likely experience as a result? |
| | A) | cognitive dissonance |
| | B) | cognitive congruity |
| | C) | attitude inoculation |
| | D) | attitude incongruity |
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If poll takers standing outside election voting stations survey entering voters on which candidate they prefer, and then ask exiting voters who they voted for, there would be a high correlation between initial preference and actual vote. Why might this be? |
| | A) | In general, attitudes specific to a behaviour are excellent predictors. |
| | B) | When an attitude is strong, it is a good predictor of behaviour. |
| | C) | When social pressures are high, an attitude is an excellent predictor of behaviour. |
| | D) | Attitudes are strong when you share them with your friends. |
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Which of the following is not an element of persuasion? |
| | A) | the communicator |
| | B) | the message |
| | C) | the physical location |
| | D) | the content |
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A change in behaviour or belief that results from real or imagined group pressure is referred to by social psychologists as |
| | A) | acceptance. |
| | B) | obedience. |
| | C) | conformity. |
| | D) | compliance. |
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How did the obedience observed in Milgram's study differ from the conformity observed in Asch's study? |
| | A) | There was an expressed command in Milgram's study but not in the Asch study. |
| | B) | Compliance took precedence over common sense. |
| | C) | The participants were pressured to go against their own conscience. |
| | D) | Milgram's study, but not Asch's, demonstrated the power of the situation. |
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Which lesson about evil do we learn from Milgram's research? |
| | A) | Evil results from a few depraved people. |
| | B) | Most people resist performing evil acts on moral grounds |
| | C) | Social forces can induce ordinary people to engage in evil acts. |
| | D) | Evil usually involves a conscious intent. |
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Concern for social image involves __________ influence; the desire to be correct involves __________ influence. |
| | A) | normative; informational |
| | B) | qualitative; proximal |
| | C) | informational; normative |
| | D) | proximal; qualitative |
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Shelley's mother insists that Shelly come directly home after school. Instead, in an effort to protect her sense of freedom, Shelley goes to the mall with her friends after school, demonstrating what? |
| | A) | forgetfulness |
| | B) | deviance |
| | C) | reaction formation |
| | D) | reactance |
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Which of the following is true of persuasion? |
| | A) | It is the process by which a message induces attitude change. |
| | B) | It is a change in behaviour or belief as a result of real or imagined group pressure. |
| | C) | It is the process by which a message induces a change in behaviour. |
| | D) | It is a change in behaviour or belief as a result of a direct order from someone. |
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Which of the following is more likely to produce change? |
| | A) | the elaborative route to persuasion |
| | B) | the peripheral route to persuasion |
| | C) | the implicit route to persuasion |
| | D) | the central route to persuasion |
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Carl's relative died of lung cancer due to smoking, yet he still smokes, despite having strong emotions regarding his relative's passing. What type of anti-smoking message is he more likely to be persuaded by? |
| | A) | a credible communicator |
| | B) | an attractive communicator |
| | C) | the reciprocity factor |
| | D) | an emotional appeal |
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Persuasion __________ as the significance and familiarity of the issue __________. |
| | A) | decreases; increases |
| | B) | stays the same; increases |
| | C) | increases; decreases |
| | D) | increases; stays the same |
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When receiving a difficult-to-understand message, which medium should be most persuasive? |
| | A) | Newspaper |
| | B) | Radio |
| | C) | Lecture |
| | D) | Television |
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What is credibility? |
| | A) | The same as liking |
| | B) | Perceived expertise and trustworthiness |
| | C) | The same as attractiveness |
| | D) | How likely you are to be persuaded by someone |
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The best way to build resistance to brain washing by religious cults is |
| | A) | stronger indoctrination in one's current religious belief system. |
| | B) | teaching people about cults and helping them prepare counter persuasive appeals. |
| | C) | instilling fear of punishment for abandoning one's current faith. |
| | D) | teaching people to explore a wide variety of belief systems. |
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Social facilitation is the tendency for the presence of others |
| | A) | to affect our likelihood to help. |
| | B) | to strengthen dominant responses. |
| | C) | to only impair our performance. |
| | D) | to only improve our performance. |
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According to Zajonc, the dominant response should do what? |
| | A) | Boost performance on easy tasks and hurt performance on difficult tasks |
| | B) | Always lead to an improvement in performance |
| | C) | Boost performance on difficult tasks and hurt performance on easy tasks |
| | D) | Increase how the performer feels |
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When you perform a task in front of others who are blindfolded, social facilitation effects are void. This finding supports which theory of social facilitation? |
| | A) | Social imitation |
| | B) | Distraction-conflict |
| | C) | Evaluation apprehension |
| | D) | Mere presence effects |
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Ben, a quiet young man, went to a heavy metal rock concert. The large crowd began to scream and stomp their feet when the musicians came on stage. Ben joined in without thinking. What is this an example of? |
| | A) | Dehumanization |
| | B) | Deindividuation |
| | C) | Depersonalization |
| | D) | Mass hysteria |
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Can social loafing be reduced? |
| | A) | No, social loafing is inevitable. |
| | B) | Yes, by having females work on the task. |
| | C) | Yes, by making individual's work identifiable. |
| | D) | Yes, by doing research in countries other than the United States. |
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The phenomenon of risky shift is |
| | A) | that group decisions are often riskier once groupthink sets in. |
| | B) | that individual decisions are often riskier than group decisions. |
| | C) | that individuals help less when others are around. |
| | D) | that group decisions often encourage riskier actions than individual decisions. |
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What are the symptoms of groupthink? |
| | A) | A collective form of dissonance reduction. |
| | B) | A form of social loafing. |
| | C) | A form of social facilitation. |
| | D) | Not always a negative influence on group decisions. |
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According to Lee Jussim, which of the following is true of stereotypes? |
| | A) | Stereotypes are almost always negative. |
| | B) | Stereotypes are inaccurate generalizations. |
| | C) | Stereotypes are always inaccurate. |
| | D) | Stereotypes may be accurate or inaccurate. |
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Stereotypes are to __________ as prejudices are to __________. |
| | A) | behaviour; beliefs |
| | B) | beliefs; behaviour |
| | C) | cognition; behaviour |
| | D) | beliefs; attitudes |
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Which of the following is a negative attitude? |
| | A) | prejudice |
| | B) | discrimination |
| | C) | racism |
| | D) | sexism |
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Researchers have found that gender stereotypes |
| | A) | have changed over the years. |
| | B) | differ within any given culture. |
| | C) | are not consistent with reality. |
| | D) | have remained consistent over time. |
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Realistic conflict theory asserts which of the following? |
| | A) | Competition between groups for recognition leads to prejudice. |
| | B) | Competition between groups for scarce resources leads to prejudice. |
| | C) | It is obvious that groups will always be in conflict because of evolution. |
| | D) | Competition between groups over perceived inequalities leads to prejudice. |
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Whereas the __________ theory of prejudice is based on competition for resources, __________ is based on a need to see one's group as "better." |
| | A) | evolutionary; social competition theory |
| | B) | social identity; realistic conflict theory |
| | C) | realistic conflict; social identity theory |
| | D) | social identity; drive theory |
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Research suggests that when we spontaneously categorize people, we do so in terms of our own what? |
| | A) | Age |
| | B) | Sex |
| | C) | Race |
| | D) | Status |
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When misfortunes befall a person, others sometimes think the victim of circumstances deserved what happened. What is a theory which explains this tendency? |
| | A) | The mere-exposure effect |
| | B) | Deindividuation |
| | C) | The just-world hypothesis |
| | D) | The hindsight bias |
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Because you dislike one of your coworkers, you lie and tell others you overheard her saying how she disliked everyone at the office. This would be an example of what kind of aggression? |
| | A) | Hostile |
| | B) | Instrumental |
| | C) | Physical |
| | D) | Direct |
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A man leaves a bomb on a bus to kill innocent victims to persuade a government to yield to his demands. This would be an example of what kind of aggression? |
| | A) | Hostile |
| | B) | Instrumental |
| | C) | Verbal |
| | D) | Sexual |
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Theories of aggression include which of the following? |
| | A) | The idea that aggression is due to learned behaviours. |
| | B) | The idea that aggression is due to frustration. |
| | C) | The idea that there are biological roots to aggression. |
| | D) | The idea that there are no biological roots to aggression. |
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What factor does not predict conformity? |
| | A) | Personality |
| | B) | Culture |
| | C) | Reactance |
| | D) | Social roles |
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When we are stuck in traffic or behind slow people in line at a store, sometimes we feel like we are going to snap. Why is this? |
| | A) | Driving is stressful |
| | B) | In our cars we are less polite |
| | C) | Driving is deindividuation |
| | D) | Frustration can facilitate aggression |
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Frustration arises from the gap between __________ and __________. |
| | A) | belief; behaviour |
| | B) | learning; behaviour |
| | C) | expectations; attainments |
| | D) | behaviour; attitudes |
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Research in the laboratory and in real life suggests that pain, personal attacks, and overcrowding are __________ experiences that __________ the likelihood aggression. |
| | A) | frustrating; decrease |
| | B) | frustrating; do not affect |
| | C) | aversive; decrease |
| | D) | aversive; increase |
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Research by Berkowitz showed what effect when participants viewed weapons? |
| | A) | Viewing a weapon served as a cue for aggressive behaviour. |
| | B) | Viewing a weapon did not serve as a cue for aggressive behaviour. |
| | C) | Viewing a weapon has no effect on aggressive behaviour. |
| | D) | Viewing a weapon reduced aggressive behaviour. |
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According to George Gerbner (1979, 1994), what is television's most potent effect? |
| | A) | increasing violent behaviour in children and adults |
| | B) | altering perceptions of the real world |
| | C) | reducing participation in civic activities |
| | D) | desensitizing people to violence |
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Because Tony was ostracized by his peers, what might Tony do? |
| | A) | Try harder to be accepted. |
| | B) | Increase his behaviour regulation. |
| | C) | Engage in self-defeating behaviours. |
| | D) | Become more passive. |
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What factor does not enable close relationships? |
| | A) | attachment |
| | B) | equity |
| | C) | self-disclosure |
| | D) | detachment |
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If Andrea wants to reduce her children's aggressive behaviours, she should do all of the following EXCEPT what? |
| | A) | Reduce aversive stimulation |
| | B) | Reward and model nonaggression |
| | C) | Elicit reactions that are incompatible with aggression |
| | D) | Encourage them to vent their anger |
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Which statement is most accurate? |
| | A) | Birds of a feather flock together. |
| | B) | Absence makes the heart grow fonder. |
| | C) | Opposites attract. |
| | D) | The best way to attract a man is to play hard-to-get. |
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Roughly what percent of infants display a secure attachment? |
| | A) | 10% |
| | B) | 30% |
| | C) | 70% |
| | D) | 90% |
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Whereas similarity __________; dissimilarity __________. |
| | A) | has minimal affect on liking; has no affect on liking |
| | B) | increases liking; decreases liking |
| | C) | has no affect on liking; has no affect on liking |
| | D) | decreases liking; increases liking |
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When romantic restaurants, dates out, nice dinners at home, and vacations continue in a relationship, couples last longer and are happier because they associate the relationship with positive things. This is best explained by what theory? |
| | A) | The reward theory of attraction |
| | B) | The anticipatory-liking theory |
| | C) | The complementary hypothesis |
| | D) | The mere exposure effect |
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Umberto feels intense, exciting emotions for Elena. Elena has great affection for Umberto and sees their lives as deeply intertwined with each other. Umberto's love would be called __________; Elena's love would be called __________. |
| | A) | passionate; passionate |
| | B) | passionate; companionate |
| | C) | companionate; passionate |
| | D) | companionate; companionate |
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According to equity theory, which couple would be most satisfied with their relationship? |
| | A) | Eugene and Mary, because Mary takes care of all of Eugene's needs. |
| | B) | Jonathan and Ruthie, because both believe they are getting as much as they are giving. |
| | C) | Frank and Carol, because Frank is wealthy and Carol is beautiful. |
| | D) | Mike and Lynn, because their relationship is extremely passionate. |
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When your campus has a blood drive, you might weigh the costs and the benefits before deciding to donate blood. This strategy would be predicted by what? |
| | A) | The social exchange theory |
| | B) | The just-world hypothesis |
| | C) | The egoism hypothesis |
| | D) | The reciprocity norm |
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According to B.F. Skinner, we credit people for good deeds only when we can't explain them. We attribute behaviour to __________ only when we lack __________. |
| | A) | external explanations; dispositional explanations |
| | B) | their inner dispositions; external explanations |
| | C) | external causes; internal ones |
| | D) | extraneous causes; dispositional causes |
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After I lend my neighbour a cup of milk, I feel comfortable asking her for some vanilla extract for a coconut cake I am baking. This is likely due to which of the following? |
| | A) | Social exchange theory |
| | B) | Ingratiation |
| | C) | The reciprocity norm |
| | D) | Social capital |
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Mindy volunteers at a centre for homeless children and her brother Kirk volunteers at a blood donation clinic. They are demonstrating which principle of prosocial behaviour? |
| | A) | The reciprocity norm |
| | B) | Social exchange theory |
| | C) | The social responsibility norm |
| | D) | Ingratiation |
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Kin selection is to evolutionary theory, as reward is to __________. |
| | A) | social exchange theory |
| | B) | reciprocity norm |
| | C) | evolutionary theory |
| | D) | social responsibility norm |
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What is one reason for the occurrence of bystander apathy? |
| | A) | The reciprocity norm |
| | B) | The social exchange theory |
| | C) | The social responsibility norm |
| | D) | A diffusion of responsibility |
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Two suspects are arrested for allegedly committing a bank robbery. The police tell them that if one confesses, the confessor will be set free and the other will be convicted of the crime. What are the suspects faced with? |
| | A) | The prisoner's dilemma |
| | B) | The tragedy of the commons |
| | C) | A zero-sum game |
| | D) | A social puzzle |
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People overfishing when they know the fish might be depleted is a form of what? |
| | A) | The prisoner's dilemma |
| | B) | The tragedy of the commons |
| | C) | A zero-sum game |
| | D) | A social puzzle |
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What allowed the two groups in Muzafer Sherif's Robber's Cave study to finally get along? |
| | A) | The formation of superordinate goals |
| | B) | The formation of subordinate goals |
| | C) | The misperception effect |
| | D) | Exposure to non-prejudiced models |
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You hear a rumour that a co-worker has said something about you, so you snub them. As a result, your co-worker does say something bad about you. This example shows |
| | A) | self-confirming perceptions. |
| | B) | reciprocally fulfilling perceptions. |
| | C) | the vindication effect. |
| | D) | equitably fulfilling perceptions. |
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Which situation is likely to have reduced performance due to both social facilitation AND social loafing? |
| | A) | A difficult task here individual contributions are clear. |
| | B) | An easy task where individual contributions are clear. |
| | C) | A difficult task where individual contributions are obscured. |
| | D) | An easy task where individual contributions are obscured. |
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What was the key difference between Asch's classic conformity study and Sherif's classic conformity study? |
| | A) | Sherif used unambiguous stimuli, leading people to comply but not change their attitude. |
| | B) | Asch used unambiguous stimuli, leading people to comply but not change their attitude. |
| | C) | Asch gave participants a direct order to comply. |
| | D) | Sherif gave participants a direct order to comply. |
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Professor Snowden is teaching a graduate seminar in the clinical interview. He would be most correct if he informed his students of which of the following? |
| | A) | They should rely more heavily on their intuitive assessment than on statistical predictions. |
| | B) | They should rely equally on clinical and statistical predictions. |
| | C) | Statistical prediction is highly superior to intuitive prediction. |
| | D) | They should first consider statistical data, then rely on their intuition when making clinical predictions. |
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An individual experiencing a depressed mood (compared to an individual experiencing a happy mood) is more likely to do notice what? |
| | A) | More negative and fewer positive details |
| | B) | More negative and more positive details |
| | C) | Fewer negative and more positive details |
| | D) | Fewer negative and fewer positive details |
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What is the difference between group polarization and the risky shift? |
| | A) | The risky shift is another name for group polarization, they are identical phenomenon. |
| | B) | The risky shift is not related at all to group polarization, they are unrelated phenomenon. |
| | C) | The risky shift is a special case of group polarization where the beliefs which are polarized are about risk. |
| | D) | Group polarization is a special case of the risky shift, in which beliefs can shift. |
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The misinformation effect is in part due to |
| | A) | open-ended questions. |
| | B) | inadequate police work. |
| | C) | prejudice. |
| | D) | suggestive questions. |
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Which of the following is NOT a reason why people help others? |
| | A) | Reduction of negative affect |
| | B) | Social norms |
| | C) | Large groups of people |
| | D) | Evolutionary imperative |
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After Jen does well on a math quiz a classmate comments, "I'm surprised, most women are bad at math." On her next quiz her mark is much lower, why did this occur? |
| | A) | Illusion of control |
| | B) | Low self-esteem |
| | C) | Stereotype threat |
| | D) | Discrimination |
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In poor countries __________, but in wealthy countries __________. |
| | A) | money doesn't predict happiness; it does |
| | B) | money predicts happiness; the correlation diminishes |
| | C) | the number of offspring predicts happiness; it doesn't |
| | D) | age predicts happiness; it does as well |
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Findings on disclosure reciprocity suggest which of the following will happen after Mark tells Anita something personal? |
| | A) | Anita will likely feel more distant. Mark will feel things are more intimate. |
| | B) | Anita will feel grateful and more intimate. |
| | C) | Anita will likely share something personal as well. Both will feel more intimate. |
| | D) | Neither Mark nor Anita will feel any more intimate. |
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