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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY MULTIPLECHOICE QUESTIONS
Mr. Moffatt overheard another teacher describe one of his students as lazy and
unmotivated.
Though Mr. Moffatt had not previously noted this tendency, he began to see exactly
what the other teacher had noted. What might account for this phenomenon?
A) Norms
B) Deindividuation
C) Social Loafing
D) Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
E) Representativeness Heuristic - D
Some difficult cuts needed to be made in the school board budget and everyone on the
board knew that there had to be consensus and
cooperation. Even though many members disagreed with certain proposals, each one
met with unanimous support or defeat. To preserve cooperation, no one offered
conflicting viewpoints. Which of the following concepts is
best described by this example?
A) Group Polarization
B) Fundamental Attribution Error
C) Groupthink
D) Role Schema
E) Reciprocity - C
A young woman was gunned down at a gas station. A busload of onlookers saw the
entire event and
no one did anything. The bus driver even stepped over the body to pay for his gas.
What social psychological phenomenon best accounts for this behavior?
A) Groupthink
B) Altruism
C) Social Impairment
D) Superordinate Goals
E) Diffusion of Responsibility - E
You read in the newspaper that survivors in a plane accident in the Andes were
discovered to have eaten other survivors during their 32-day ordeal. You will have
committed the fundamental attribution error if you
A) Attribute the behavior to dispositional (personal) factors
B) Attribute the behavior to situational factors
C) Think you would have done the same thing if you had been there
, D) Consider the behavior as a signal for the moral degradation of our society
E) Decide never to fly in a plane again - A
Ethnocentrism is the belief that
A) Ethnic foods are all good
B) Human diversity is a positive force
C) One's own culture is superior to others
D) Other people are all pretty much alike in their opinions
E) Cultural pluralism is a destructive goal that fosters conflict - C
The effect of one confederate selecting a different line from the others in the Asch
conformity test was
A) Continuing conformity by the participant to avoid looking bad to the others
B) The participant asking to vote privately on a separate piece of paper
C) A boost to the self-efficacy of the participant
D) To release the participant from the conformity effect
E) To cause the experimenter to release that confederate in the next trial period, thus
ensuring continued conformity by the participant - D
Which of the following factors probably plays the least important role in explaining why
children
often share the same political and economic values as their parents?
A) Exposure to Mass Media
B) Operant Conditioning
C) They have never questioned these beliefs and do not really understand them
D) Modeling
E) Mere Exposure Effect - A
Of the following, which would be a good example of a self-serving bias?
A) Carlos, who feels that everyone should strive to help themselves as well as others
B) Antoine, who says that he has bombed a test even though he always gets an A
C) Mai, who works harder for teachers who compliment her on her efforts
D) Lina, who overestimates the degree to which people agree with her opinions
E) Betty, who believes that she works harder than others and is underappreciated - E
In a jigsaw classroom,
A) Students are dependent upon each other to learn all parts of a lesson
B) Learning is enhanced by simulations and lectures run by teachers
C) Competition encourages kids to achieve their full potential
D) Outcome research has shown limited success beyond the elementary school level
E) Individualism is encouraged to foster self-esteem - A
Although Graham has not yet met his future college roommate, he learned that the
roommate is a football player. He is anxious and unhappy about sharing his room with a
football player because he expects that his roommate will be a
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