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Test Bank for Social Psychology 9ce 9th Canadian edition by David Myers, Christian Jordan, Steven Smith, Jean Twenge. Full Chapters are included with answers - Chapter 1 to 12
Chapter 1 Introducing the Science and Methods of Social Psychology
Part One Social Thinking
Chapter 2 The Self in ...
Test Bank for Social Psychology, 9th Canadian Edition by David Myers
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Chapter 01 9ce Myers
1) Which of the following questions is NOT likely to be addressed by social psychologists?
A) Are our social beliefs self-fulfilling?
B) In what ways do other people influence our attitudes and actions?
C) What situations trigger people to be helpful or greedy?
D) Is human development a continuous process or does it proceed through a series of
stages?
2) Compared with ______, social psychology focuses less on differences among individuals,
and more on how individuals, in general, view and affect one another.
A) sociology
B) clinical psychology
C) personality psychology
D) cultural psychology
3) Cinderella's Prince had trouble recognizing her in her home as opposed to the ballroom
where they met. This observation reflects
A) the power of the situation.
B) the importance of cognition.
C) the power of the person.
D) common-sense psychology.
4) Social psychology is the scientific study of
A) how people influence one another.
B) how people change over time.
C) how people interact with one another.
D) how people think about, influence, and relate to one another.
5) Which of the following is NOT one of the three areas of research in social psychology?
A) How people relate to each other
B) How people think about others
C) How people influence others
D) How people develop different personalities
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,6) The first social psychology experiments were reported
A) just two centuries ago.
B) just over a century ago.
C) just 75 years ago.
D) just after World War I.
7) Which of the following processes shape(s) human behaviour?
A) Intuitions only
B) Personal attitudes and dispositions only
C) Social influences only
D) Intuitions, personal attitudes and dispositions, and social influences
8) Sarah is taking a psychology class and has a particular view about human behaviour. She
strongly believes that humans are bio-psycho-social organisms, and that biological processes
are the roots of social behaviour. Sarah is most likely to endorse what type of perspective on
human behaviour?
A) Sociological
B) Social psychology
C) Social neuroscience
D) Biological
9) Which of the following is NOT one of the major themes in social psychology?
A) Social influences shape our behaviour.
B) Social intuitions are often incorrect but powerful.
C) Social behaviour is biologically rooted.
D) Relating to others is a basic need.
10) Psychological science has revealed that much of our thinking occurs
A) when we are asleep.
B) only when we carefully attend to the information.
C) in collaboration with others.
D) intuitively.
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,11) Williams and colleagues (2001, 2002) investigated whether relating to others is a basic need.
The results of their studies show that
A) feeling left out increases one's desire to perform better on standardized tests.
B) feeling left out can have negative effects on how people feel about others.
C) feeling left out can have negative effects on how people feel about themselves.
D) feeling left out creates an urge to enhance social relationships.
12) Based upon the results of their study, Leary and Baumeister (2000) argued that the basis of
our self-esteem is the result of
A) how well we cope with rejection.
B) how frightening or intimidating we can make others feel.
C) how competent we are in our job.
D) how accepted we feel by others.
13) Indigenous students who leave their home to go to university often feel ostracized because
A) they have less interest in interacting with their university peers.
B) they feel that their Indigenous identity is overemphasized.
C) there are misconceptions about their education being funded which can create a
divide between them and their university peers.
D) they travelled far to go to school.
14) Which of the following examples is a question that a social psychologist would most likely
study?
A) How have divorce rates changed over time?
B) What accounts for racial differences in intelligence?
C) In deciding how they will vote in an election, are individuals more influenced by one
persuasive medium than by another?
D) In what ways do children learn differently than do adults?
15) In studying racial attitudes, a social psychologist would be most interested in understanding
A) how individuals develop racial attitudes.
B) how the attitudes of one class are different from those of another.
C) the age difference in racial prejudice.
D) the history of racial prejudice.
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, 16) Of the following studies, which is most likely to be conducted by a social psychologist?
A) An experimenter watches to see whether hungry game players use a more aggressive
strategy than players who are not hungry.
B) An interviewer does a case study of a physically disabled veteran.
C) An archival researcher examines records of divorce rates across cultures.
D) A test administrator measures the skills of an adolescent whose class performance has
been poor.
17) Personality psychologists are more interested in _____, while social psychologists more
likely focus on _____.
A) normal personality; disordered or abnormal behaviour
B) individual differences; our common humanity
C) situational influences; internal motivations
D) cognition; emotion
18) In a study by Mehl and Pennebaker (2003), students wore microcassette recorders and
microphones, and were recorded for brief periods of time at regular intervals throughout their
days. Their study revealed that
A) humans are solitary beings and do not engage in communication as much as we think.
B) individuals spend a great deal of time talking to others, but their conversations were
often of little substance or meaning.
C) communication was unrelated to social needs as people talked to themselves as much
as they talked to others.
D) relationships and communication are an integral part of being human.
19) Which of the following least demonstrates how the power of the situation can influence
behaviour?
A) A depressed man feels that his wife and family put too much pressure on him.
B) Public concerns about mental illness increase, following high profile cases in the
news.
C) Canadians come together to support others after a natural disaster.
D) The atrocities that were committed during the Holocaust.
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