Social Psychology MCQs
Social Psychology MCQs
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1: _____ is a negative attitude; _____ is a negative behavior.
A. Collectivistic; individualistic
B. Prime aggressive thoughts
C. Women have a superior moral sensibility
D. Prejudice; discrimination
2: _______ are the expectations we have about what behaviors are right or wrong.
A. Norms
B. Ethnocentrism
C. Reference
D. Social proof
3: ""prison"" study is to ""shock"" study as _____ is to _____.
A. Zimbardo; Asch
B. Zimbardo; Milgram
C. Milgram; Zimbardo
D. Festinger; Milgram
4: A(n) ________ is a set of group expectations for appropriate thoughts and behaviors of its members.
A. Social role
B. Social norm
C. Script
D. Attribution
5: According to the actor-observer bias, we have more information about ________.
A. Situational influences on behavior
B. Influences on our own behavior
C. Influences on others' behavior
D. Dispositional influences on behavior
6: According to your textbook, biochemical influences on aggression include _____ and _____.
A. Self-serving bias; self-effacing bias
B. Prosocial behavior; Diffusion of responsibility
C. Hindsight bias; blaming the victim
D. Testosterone; alcohol abuse
7: Altruism is to _____ as egoism is to _____.
A. Is as universal as the incest taboo
B. Self-interest motivates all behavior
C. Another's welfare; one's own welfare
D. Has been absent due to illness
8: Altruism is to _____ as prosocial behavior is to _____.
A. Automatic, nonconscious mental processes that influence perceptions, judgments, decisions, and reasoning.
B. Helping another person with no expectation of reward; either selfless or self-serving behavior
C. Deliberate, conscious mental processes involved in perceptions, judgments, decisions, and reasoning.
D. Collectivists are more likely to attribute causes of another person's behavior to external, situational factors rather than to internal, personal factors.
9: As a field, social psychology focuses on ________ in predicting human behavior.
A. Personality traits
B. Genetic predispositions
C. Biological forces
D. Situational factors
10: Attitude is to behavior as _____ is to _____.
A. Prejudice; discrimination
B. Ethnocentrism; discrimination
C. Prejudice; ethnocentrism
D. Individualistic; prejudice
11: Attitude is to discrimination as ____ is to ____.
A. Behavior; Prejudice
B. Behavior; discrimination
C. Prejudice; Attitude
D. Individualistic; prejudice
12: Cognitive dissonance causes discomfort because it disrupts our sense of ________.
A. Dependency
B. Unpredictability
C. Consistency
D. Power
13: Collectivistic cultures are to ________ as individualistic cultures are to ________.
A. Situational; Situational factors
B. Confirmation bias; dispositional
C. Factual information; dispositional
D. Physical; attractiveness
E. Situational; dispositional
14: Compared with males, the average female has ______ percent more fat.
A. 70
B. 80
C. 90
D. 50
15: Deception is _____ in social psychological research.
A. Never revealed
B. Not necessary
C. Sometimes necessary
D. No longer.
16: Discrimination is to _____ as prejudice is to _____.
A. Feelings; behavior
B. Thoughts; feelings
C. Feelings; thoughts
D. Behavior; feelings
17: Examples of cues used in peripheral route persuasion include all of the following except ________.
A. Factual information
B. Confirmation bias
C. Social norm
D. Situational factors
18: In general, prejudice is ______ and discrimination is ______.
A. Interest; behavir
B. Emotional intimacy, shared interests
C. Anxious; ambivilant
D. Attitude, behavior
19: In general, research suggests that physicians have a(n) ______ attitude toward advance directives.
A. Positive
B. Negative
C. Polite
D. None of these
20: In the asch experiment, participants conformed due to ________ social influence.
A. Normative
B. Persuasive
C. Inspirational
D. Informational
21: Prejudice is _____; discrimination is _____.
A. Attitude; behavior
B. Behavior; Attitude
C. Proximity, similarity and exchange
D. Proximity, Attitude
22: Proposing reasons for behaviors and mental processes is an example of _____
A. Description
B. Explanation
C. Influence
D. Prediction
23: Sherif is to the study of _____ as asch is to the study of _____.
A. Normative influence; norm formation
B. Norm formation; group pressure
C. Group pressure; norm formation
D. None of these
24: Social psychology differs from psychology in its focus on ________.
A. Enjoying the boring tasks
B. Influences of the social world
C. Impression formation
D. Interpersonal attraction
25: Stereotype is to discrimination as _____ is to _____.
A. Emotion; behavior
B. Behavior; cognition
C. Cognition; emotion
D. Cognition; behavior
26: The availability heuristic is based on the principle of using ________ as a cue to probability.
A. Accessibility
B. Similarity
C. Assimilation
D. Contrast
27: The bystander effect is most likely to occur _____.
A. A composite of multiple faces that have been digitally blended to produce an
B. Person perception
C. People tend to look to the behavior of others for cues about what to do
D. When someone is witnessing an emergency and there are several other people present
28: The bystander effect likely occurs due to ________.
A. Desensitization to violence
B. People not noticing the emergency
C. Diffusion of responsibility
D. Emotional insensitivity
29: The results of milgram?s research suggest that _____ will follow orders to hurt someone.
A. Prisoners and guards
B. A majority of
C. Serotonin and GABA
D. Diffusion of responsibility
30: The secretion of ghrelin ________ appetite, and the secretion of obestatin ________ appetite.
A. Stimulates; stimulates
B. Suppresses; suppresses
C. Stimulates; suppresses
D. Suppresses; stimulates
31: ________ is to affect as ________ is to cognition.
A. Stereotype; prejudice
B. Discrimination; stereotype
C. Prejudice; discrimination
D. Prejudice; stereotype
32: A hypothesis ________ , while a theory ________.
A. Is tested by a specific study; encompasses a body of related research
B. Encompasses a body of related research; is tested by a specific study
C. Is tested scientifically; is not tested scientifically
D. Is not tested scientifically; is tested scientifically
33: Behavior that is beneficial to others is called ______ behavior.
A. Prosocial behaviour
B. Altruism
C. Helping behaviour
D. None of these
34: Social learning theory involves learning through ________.
A. Instinct
B. Logical inference
C. Systematic study of books and manuals
D. Observing models
35: Typically, bullying from boys is to ________ as bullying from girls is to ________.
A. Emotional harm; physical harm
B. Physical harm; emotional harm
C. Psychological harm; physical harm
D. Social exclusion; verbal taunting
36: Theories help social psychologists _____ their observations and _____ their hypotheses.
A. Test; organize
B. Organize; test
C. Objectify; refute
D. Refute; objectify
37: When people _____ the variability of human categories, they feel _____ in using stereotypes.
A. Underestimate; unjustified
B. Overestimate; unjustified
C. Overestimate; justified
D. Underestimate; justified
38: To achieve ?zero population growth? each woman of childbearing age would have ___ children.
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
39: Deindividuation is _____ likely when self-awareness is _____.
A. Less;high
B. High;less
C. More high
D. More less
40: You would be expressing a ""stereotype"" if you ________
A. Made any generalization about people.
B. Described everyone in some category in the same way.
C. Held an opinion about someone based on personal experience.
D. Treated anyone in an unkind way
41: Hindsight bias contributes to and reinforces the _____ explanatory pattern.
A. Blame the victim
B. Fundamental attribution
C. Self-effacing
D. Self-serving
42: When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________.
A. Vibrate
B. Subtractive
C. False
D. Temperature
43: Cognitive dissonance theory states that in order to reduce dissonance, individuals _____.
A. Change attitudes in order to be more popular
B. Change behavior in order to be more popular
C. Do not perceive a discrepancy between attitudes and behavior
D. Try to align their attitudes and behavior
44: _____ refers to intentional efforts to change people's attitudes or behaviors.
A. Persuasion
B. Compliance
C. Conformity
D. Obedience
45: ____________ is the social need to influence others.
A. Control
B. Integrating
C. Social Exchange Theory
D. Denial
46: _____ emphasized the importance of one's self-concept.
A. Carl Rogers
B. Karen Horney
C. Gordon Allport
D. Albert Bandura
47: _____ is based on a person's desire to be liked by a group.
A. Informational social influence
B. Normative social influence
C. Social loafing
D. Social facilitation
48: Equity theory discusses individuals' perceptions about the relationship between ____ and ____.
A. Instrumentality, valence
B. Financial incentives, nonfinancial rewards
C. Equity, reinforcement
D. Rewards, punishments
E. Inputs, outcomes
49: Attitudes are ________ that guide behavior.
A. Norms and roles
B. Superordinate goals
C. Beliefs and feelings
D. Dispositional attributions
50: Attitudes are ________.
A. Innumerable
B. Norms and roles
C. Superordinate goals
D. Beliefs and feelings
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