SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - PSY20016 - EXAM PRACTICE Questions With Correct Answers
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Social Psychology
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Social Psychology
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - PSY20016 -
EXAM PRACTICE Questions With Correct
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The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another is called -
answerSOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Social psychology is primarily concerned with the ways in which: - answerINDIVIDUALS THINK, FEEL
AND...
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - PSY20016 -
EXAM PRACTICE Questions With Correct
Answers
The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another is called -
answer✔SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Social psychology is primarily concerned with the ways in which: - answer✔INDIVIDUALS THINK, FEEL
AND BEHAVE WITH REGARD TO OTHERS.
Social psychologists use the scientific method when they study human behaviour in order to: -
answer✔ALLOW OTHER SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGISTS TO ATTEMPT TO REPLICATE THE FINDINGS.
Social psychology differs from common sense in that: - answer✔SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY RELIES ON THE
SCIENTIFIC METHOD TO TEST ITS THEORIES.
Who was the original founder of social psychology? - answer✔NORMAN TRIPLETT
New technologies used in contemporary social psychological research are: - answer✔POSITRON
EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/ FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING/VIRTUAL REALITY
A key ethical obligation for social psychologists is: - answer✔INFORMED CONSENT.
Who is credited with publishing the first research article in social psychology? - answer✔NORMAN
TRIPLETT
Castilla wonders whether environmental factors influence how long juries take to select a foreperson.
Mock jurors are brought into a room with either a rectangular table or a round table. The jurors are
asked to select a foreperson before starting deliberation. Castilla records how long it takes each jury to
select a foreperson. The shape of the table is the _______ variable. - answer✔INDEPENDENT
Feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects,
people, and events are referred to as - answer✔ATTITUDES.
A positive, negative, or mixed reaction to a person, object, or idea. - answer✔ATTITUDE
A multiple-item questionnaire designed to measure a person's attitude toward some object -
answer✔ATTITUDE SCALE
A phoney lie-detector device that is sometimes used to get respondents to give truthful answers to
sensitive questions. - answer✔BOGUS PIPELINE
The process by which a person thinks carefully about a communication and is influenced by the strength
of its arguments. - answer✔CENTRAL ROUTE TO PERSUASION
The theory that holding inconsistent cognition arouses psychological tension that people become
motivated to reduce. - answer✔COGNITIVE DISSONANCE THEORY
The process of thinking about and scrutinizing the arguments contained in a persuasive communication.
- answer✔ELABORATION
A theory holding that the presence of others will produce social facilitation effects only when those
others are seen as potential evaluators. - answer✔EVALUATION APPREHENSION THEORY
a change in the valence of a stimulus that is due to the pairing of that stimulus with another positive or
negative stimulus. The first stimulus is often referred to as the conditioned stimulus and the second
stimulus as the unconditioned stimulus. - answer✔EVALUATIVE CONDITIONING
An electronic instrument that records facial muscle activity associated with emotions and attitudes. -
answer✔FACIAL ELECTROMYOGRAPH
A covert measure of unconscious attitudes derived from the speed at which people respond to pairings
of concepts such as black or white with good or bad. - answer✔IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST (IAT)
An attitude, such as prejudice, that one is not aware of having. - answer✔IMPLICIT ATTITUDE
The idea that exposure to weak versions of a persuasive argument increases later resistance to that
argument. - answer✔INOCULATION HYPOTHESIS
A condition in which people refrain from engaging in a desirable activity, even when only mild
punishment is threatened - answer✔INSUFFICIENT DETERRENCE
A condition in which people freely perform an attitude-discrepant behaviour without receiving a large
reward. - answer✔INSUFFICIENT JUSTIFICATION
A personality variable that distinguishes people on the basis of how much they enjoy effortful cognitive
activities. - answer✔NEED FOR COGNITION
The process by which a person does not think carefully about a communication and is influenced instead
by superficial cues. - answer✔PERIPHERAL ROUTE TO PERSUASION
The process by which attitudes are changed. - answer✔PERSUASION
The theory that people react against threats to their freedom by asserting themselves and perceiving
the threatened freedom as more attractive. - answer✔PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTANCE
A delayed increase in the persuasive impact of a non-credible source. - answer✔SLEEPER EFFECT
The theory that attitudes toward a specific behaviour combine with subjective norms and perceived
control to influence a person's actions. - answer✔THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOUR
The attitude change path in which interested people focus on the arguments and respond with
favourable thoughts is called the - answer✔CENTRAL ROUTE PERSUASION.
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE THEORY - answer✔states that we act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we
feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) are inconsistent. For example, when our awareness of our
attitudes and of our actions clash, we can reduce the resulting discomfort by changing our attitudes
Name the attitude change path in which people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker's
attractiveness. - answer✔THE PERIPHERAL ROUTE PERSUASION.
Attitudes are best understood as: . - answer✔VARYING IN STRENGTH ALONG BOTH POSITIVE AND
NEGATIVE DIMENSIONS.
Which of the following would not be considered an attitude?
A. Darnell likes to play chess.
B. Daphne hates liver.
C. Daisy strongly favours universal health insurance.
D. Dalton drives a silver minivan. - answer✔D. DALTON DRIVES A SILVER MINIVAN.
Attitudes are useful because they:
A. allow us to judge whether something we encounter is good or bad.
B. bias the way we interpret new information.
C. make it more likely that we will change our minds later.
D. allow us to take more time to evaluate others. - answer✔A. ALLOW US TO JUDGE WHETHER
SOMETHING WE ENCOUNTER IS GOOD OR BAD.
What best describes a group's attitude change that is attributed to the central route to persuasion? -
answer✔ATTITUDE CHANGE THAT OCCURS WHEN GROUPS CAREFULLY EVALUATE EVIDENCE AND
ARGUMENTS.
Public opinion pollsters, in trying to assess attitudes about particular subjects, have become aware that
attitude responses seem to be affected by all of the factors below except:
D. the length of the questionnaire. - answer✔D. THE LENGTH OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE.
Sammy and Mark watched a ballgame together. Sammy favoured the home team, while Mark was an
avid fan of the road team. The star player for Sammy's team made a great play and started to celebrate
in a rather demonstrative fashion. Sammy got caught up in the celebration, while Mark was angered
because he felt this display was an insult to the players of his team. This demonstrates that:
A. two people's evaluations of the same event are more likely to be similar than to be different.
B. we often interpret events and behaviour based upon pre-existing attitudes.
C. central route processing leads to stronger opinions than peripheral route processing.
D. we can hold both positive and negative evaluations about the same object. - answer✔B. WE OFTEN
INTERPRET EVENTS AND BEHAVIOUR BASED UPON PRE-EXISTING ATTITUDES.
TRUE or FALSE. Researchers can tell if someone has a positive or negative attitude by measuring
physiological arousal. - answer✔FALSE. MEASURES OF AROUSAL CAN REVEAL HOW INTENSELY
SOMEONE FEELS, BUT NOT WHETHER THE PERSON'S ATTITUDE IS POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE.
TRUE or FALSE. In reacting to persuasive communications, people are influenced more by superficial
images than by logical arguments. - answer✔FALSE. AS INDICATED BY THE DUAL-PROCESS MODEL OF
PERSUASION, PEOPLE CAN BE INFLUENCED BY IMAGES OR ARGUMENTS, DEPENDING ON THEIR ABILITY
AND MOTIVATION TO THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT THE INFORMATION.
TRUE or FALSE. People are most easily persuaded by commercial messages that are presented without
their awareness. - answer✔FALSE. THERE IS NO RESEARCH EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE PRESUMED
EFFECTS OF SUBLIMINAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
TRUE or FALSE. The more money you pay people to tell a lie, the more they will come to believe it. -
answer✔FALSE. COGNITIVE DISSONANCE STUDIES SHOW THAT PEOPLE BELIEVE THE LIES THEY ARE
UNDERPAID TO TELL AS A WAY TO JUSTIFY THEIR OWN ACTIONS.
TRUE or FALSE. People often come to like what they suffer for. - answer✔TRUE. STUDIES SHOW THAT
THE MORE PEOPLE WORK OR SUFFER FOR SOMETHING, THE MORE THEY COME TO LIKE IT AS A WAY TO
JUSTIFY THEIR EFFORT.
Measuring attitudes is a complicated endeavour. What type of attitude measurement is the Implicit
Association Task an example of? - answer✔COVERT
Name a source of attitudes. - answer✔EVALUATIVE CONDITIONING
Name the 'two routes' to persuasion. - answer✔CENTRAL & PERIPHERAL
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