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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 - 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 - 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 - 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
(d) specific attitudes and specific behaviours - specific attitudes and specific behaviours
Zajonc (1980) used cockroaches to illustrate the process of:
(a) social attribution
(b) conformity
(c) deindividuation
(d) social facilitation - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.
(c) transitory, uncontrollable causes
(d) internal, uncontrollable causes - transitory, controllable causes.
80. People suffering from loneliness are less likely to recover if they attribute it to:
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 - the Oedipus complex
Festinger and Carlsmith's (1959) experiment on cognitive dissonance can help explain
why people asked to lie:
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