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Social Psychology - Practice Exam Questions With Correct Answers According to Kelly attributions are made on the basis of information relating to: (a) consistency, consensus and distinctiveness (b) collectivism, distinctiveness and facilitation (c) correspondence, inference and logic (d) dist...

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Social Psychology - Practice Exam Questions
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According to Kelly attributions are made on the basis of information relating to:

(a) consistency, consensus and distinctiveness

(b) collectivism, distinctiveness and facilitation

(c) correspondence, inference and logic

(d) distinctiveness and repeated causality - answer✔consistency, consensus and distinctiveness

Deindividuation is a process by which:

(a) there is an enhanced sense of personal identity

(b) there is a weakened sense of personal identity

(c) there is a diffusion of responsibility

(d) strangers become familiar with one another - answer✔there is a weakened sense of personal
identity

Festinger suggested that inconsistency between attitudes and behaviour may cause:

(a) cognitive attribution

(b) cognitive complexity

(c) cognitive dissonance

(d) cognitive differentiation - answer✔cognitive dissonance

Research demonstrates that the relationship between attitudes and behaviour is most likely to appear
when we assess the relation between:

(a) general attitudes and specific behaviours

(b) specific attitudes and general behaviour

(c) general attitudes and general behaviours

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(d) specific attitudes and specific behaviours - answer✔specific attitudes and specific behaviours

Zajonc (1980) used cockroaches to illustrate the process of:

(a) social attribution

(b) conformity

(c) deindividuation

(d) social facilitation - answer✔social facilitation

Which of the following has NOT been used by social psychologists as an unobtrusive method of
assessing attitudes?

(a) the bogus pipeline

(b) electromyography

(c) the dissonance pipeline

(d) the lost letter technique - answer✔the dissonance pipeline

The idea that attitudes change because behaviour changes could be used to explain why:

(a) people become angry when they are frustrated

(b) people generally expect to lose after they place a bet

(c) people become more confident of winning after they place a bet

(d) people are less likely to help others when in large groups - answer✔people generally expect to lose
after they place a bet

According to Realistic Group Conflict Theory the attitudes and behaviour of ingroup members towards
the outgroup will:

(a) reflect the salient level of social categorisation

(b) reflect the objective interests of the ingroup

(c) reflect the personality of the ingroup leader

(d) reflect the child rearing practices of the ingroup - answer✔reflect the objective interests of the
ingroup

Cutrona (1982) showed that people are more likely to overcome loneliness when it is attributed to:

(a) internal, stable causes

(b) transitory, controllable causes.

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(c) transitory, uncontrollable causes

(d) internal, uncontrollable causes - answer✔transitory, controllable causes.

80. People suffering from loneliness are less likely to recover if they attribute it to:



(a) Transitory, uncontrollable causes

(b) Internal, stable causes

(c) External, controllable causes

(d) Internal, unstable causes - answer✔Internal, stable causes

Theoretically, girls develop an Electra complex during the:

(a) anal stage

(b) oral stage

(c) genital stage

(d) phallic stage - answer✔phallic stage

When boys in the Trobriand Islands became hostile towards their uncles as opposed to their fathers this
undermined Freud's ideas on:

(a) the id

(b) repression

(c) the Oedipus complex

(d) the Electra complex - answer✔the Oedipus complex

Festinger and Carlsmith's (1959) experiment on cognitive dissonance can help explain why people asked
to lie:

(a) claimed to be fairly dishonest

(b) claimed that menial tasks were fairly disinteresting

(c) claimed to be fairly honest

(d) claimed that menial tasks were fairly interesting - answer✔claimed that menial tasks were fairly
interesting

In the course text Snow White (the fairy tale) is discussed in relation to the work of:

(a) Carl Jung

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