Question 1

Which of the following is correctly matched with its founder?

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A)   Attribution theory; Heider
B)   Social comparison theory; Triplett
C)   Social cognition; Festinger
D)   Cognitive dissonance theory; Asch

Question 2

Social psychologists do not generally

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A)   work in settings outside of an academic context.
B)   consider the effects of external, nonsocial factors on behavior.
C)   study phenomena about which commonsense beliefs are held.
D)   pay more attention to group behavior than the behavior of individuals within groups.

Question 3

Which of the following questions would a social psychologist be most likely to study?

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A)   Are crime rates different among people of higher versus lower socioeconomic status?
B)   What risk factors contribute to the onset of schizophrenia?
C)   Is there a link between playing violent video games and engaging in aggressive behavior?
D)   Do citizens in countries with democratic governments report greater life satisfaction than citizens in countries with autocratic governments?

Question 4

Cross-cultural research regarding attitudes about the self indicate that

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A)   people from individualistic cultures are more likely than people from collectivist cultures to seek out information that makes them feel good about themselves.
B)   people from individualistic cultures are more likely than people from collectivist cultures to seek out information that points to a need for self-improvement.
C)   people from individualistic cultures write more balanced and accurate self-descriptions than do people from collectivist cultures.
D)   none of these.

Question 5

A contemporary social psychologist studies both "hot" and "cold" explanations for social behavior. This approach is an example of

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A)   the cognitive revolution.
B)   applied social psychology.
C)   pluralistic orientation.
D)   a cross-cultural perspective.

Question 6

Which of the following "common sense" findings is indeed true ?

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A)   Most of us expect beautiful people to be unintelligent.
B)   Playing violent video games is a safe way to release aggressive tendencies.
C)   People come to like an activity more when they are given a large reward for engaging in it.
D)   People tend to overestimate the extent to which others agree with their points of view.

Question 7

When Taka is teaching his social psychology class, he emphasizes that the field must encompass a range of research techniques and cultural perspectives if it is to flourish. Taka's emphasis reflects a(n)

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A)   contextualist orientation.
B)   empirical approach.
C)   "hot" approach to studying social behavior.
D)   pluralistic orientation.

Question 8

Hyunwoo believes that image-oriented ads will be more persuasive for individuals concerned with the way they appear to others, whereas ads that stress product quality will be more effective for individuals who are less concerned with their public image. This belief represents the intersection of what two fields of study?

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A)   Social psychology and clinical psychology
B)   Social psychology and cognitive psychology
C)   Social psychology and personality psychology
D)   Social psychology and sociology

Question 9

Brad is a social psychologist. Marion is a sociologist. Which of the following research questions is most likely of interest to both of them?

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A)   How do societal and immediate factors influence racial differences in academic achievement?
B)   How does positive and negative feedback impact conceptions of the self?
C)   Do different socioeconomic groups express different political attitudes?
D)   Can an authority figure influence people to act in ways that they normally would not?

Question 10

Mona would like to understand the interactionist perspective. She has enough time to skim two textbooks. She should probably read one textbook in social psychology and one in

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A)   evolutionary psychology.
B)   cognitive psychology.
C)   clinical psychology.
D)   personality psychology.

Question 11

Which of the following is concerned with how the brain influences social behavior?

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A)   Evolutionary psychology
B)   Social cognition
C)   Social neuroscience
D)   Behavioral genetics

Question 12

The work of Muzafer Sherif was important for the development of social psychology because he

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A)   demonstrated the interaction between personality characteristics and situational factors.
B)   developed professional associations for social psychologists.
C)   showed that complex social behavior could be examined scientifically.
D)   helped to find solutions to the crisis in the field during the 1960s and 1970s.

Question 13

Which of the following statements about social psychology is false ?

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A)   A goal of social psychology is to develop general principles that describe human behavior.
B)   An assumption of social psychology is that only social factors influence human behavior.
C)   Social psychology relies on the scientific method to learn about human behavior.
D)   Social psychology is concerned with the way in which the imagined presence of others influences individuals.

Question 14

An emphasis on experiments addressing the interaction of individuals and their social context is particularly clear in the writings of

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A)   Rich Petty and John Cacioppo.
B)   Max Ringelmann and Norman Triplett.
C)   Norman Triplett and Kurt Lewin.
D)   Kurt Lewin and Floyd Allport.

Question 15

Max Ringelmann, Floyd Allport, and Kurt Lewin all made singularly important contributions to the development of social psychology as a field. Summarize these contributions.

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Max Ringelmann was an engineer who, arou...

Question 16

Thibaut and Kelley share Heider's interest in

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A)   the roots of prejudice.
B)   people's desire to sustain consistency.
C)   the perceptions people have in relationships.
D)   applying their research to understanding propaganda.

Question 17

Social psychological research is a necessary endeavor because our commonsense intuitions

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A)   tend to be very unstable.
B)   often contradict each other.
C)   are not as shared by other people as we think.
D)   are generally accurate but are held with little confidence.

Question 18

Astrid has developed a 12-item questionnaire to help her identify individuals who tend to be skeptical of authority figures across different situations. Astrid is most likely a _____ psychologist.

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A)   cognitive
B)   social
C)   clinical
D)   personality

Question 19

The middle of the 20th century was an important period in the establishment of social psychology as a field. Name two general themes in the topics studied by researchers of that era, and give examples.

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Because of the events of World War II (a...

Question 20

Social psychologists reacted to critiques of the field in the 1960s and 1970s by doing all of the following except

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A)   adopting more rigorous and formalized ethical standards.
B)   paying more attention to cross-cultural differences in cognition and behavior.
C)   denouncing experiments as unacceptably artificial.
D)   developing more stringent procedures to avoid the effects of experimenter bias.

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