Question 1

Social conventions,explicit laws,and implicit cultural standards are examples of:

Accepted Answer

A) norms. 
B) roles. 
C) routines. 
D) stereotypes. 
A) norms. 
B) roles. 
C) routines. 
D) stereotypes.

Question 2

Research on social roles suggests that:

Accepted Answer

A) people usually follow social roles with conscious deliberation. 
B) certain aspects of every role must be carried out or there will be penalties. 
C) male gender roles in Western cultures have been resistant to any changes. 
D) family roles setting tasks for husbands and wives are similar across cultures. 
A) people usually follow social roles with conscious deliberation. 
B) certain aspects of every role must be carried out or there will be penalties. 
C) male gender roles in Western cultures have been resistant to any changes. 
D) family roles setting tasks for husbands and wives are similar across cultures.

Question 3

Describe the technique that Joseph Goebbels called "The Big Lie."

Accepted Answer

A good answer will include the following

Question 4

An economic cause of prejudice is to:

Accepted Answer

A) help people bond to their own ethnic group. 
B) increase self-esteem. 
C) increase conformity to social norms. 
D) make official forms of discrimination seem legitimate. 
A) help people bond to their own ethnic group. 
B) increase self-esteem. 
C) increase conformity to social norms. 
D) make official forms of discrimination seem legitimate.

Question 5

Groupthink occurred when NASA officials insulated themselves from the objections of dissenting engineers and made the fatal decision to launch the Challenger.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Before Milgram's study on obedience began,psychiatrists predicted that one person in ten would administer the highest voltage.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Cognitive dissonance is a state of tension that occurs when a person's belief is incongruent with his or her behavior.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Altruism is the willingness to take selfless or dangerous action on behalf of others.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Conservatives tend to prefer the values of progress,rebelliousness,chaos,flexibility,feminism,and equality.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Janis,an administrative assistant at a London firm,is trying to find reasons for her boss's hostile behavior.She is likely to:

Accepted Answer

A) ignore her boss's dispositional attributions in favor of situational attributions. 
B) leap to the attribution that her boss's behavior corresponds to work demands. 
C) explore her boss's personality traits and the environmental constraints to derive an explanation. 
D) overestimate her boss's personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation. 
A) ignore her boss's dispositional attributions in favor of situational attributions. 
B) leap to the attribution that her boss's behavior corresponds to work demands. 
C) explore her boss's personality traits and the environmental constraints to derive an explanation. 
D) overestimate her boss's personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation.

Question 11

Adora and Yvette,and twelve of their closest friends from college,are planning to go to Key West during spring break.As members of the anonymous crowd of college students,Adora and Yvette will most likely:

Accepted Answer

A) conform to the situation's specific norms and say,"Let's party!" 
B) conform to the local norms of the city of Key West. 
C) become uninhibited because mindlessness is increased in a large group. 
D) become combative because aggressiveness is released in the large group. 
A) conform to the situation's specific norms and say,"Let's party!" 
B) conform to the local norms of the city of Key West. 
C) become uninhibited because mindlessness is increased in a large group. 
D) become combative because aggressiveness is released in the large group.

Question 12

Which of the following actions by the "learner" reduced the likelihood of being shocked by the "teacher" in Milgram's study?

Accepted Answer

A) protesting noisily 
B) screaming in pain 
C) complaining of having a heart ailment 
D) nothing the learner did made a difference 
A) protesting noisily 
B) screaming in pain 
C) complaining of having a heart ailment 
D) nothing the learner did made a difference

Question 13

In the social-psychological view,the horrifying violence of one group against another is due to inner aggressive drives that are part of human nature.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

The part of a person's self-concept that is based on identification with a nation,culture,group,or gender is called:

Accepted Answer

A) ethnic identity. 
B) ethnic stereotype. 
C) tacit identity. 
D) social concept. 
A) ethnic identity. 
B) ethnic stereotype. 
C) tacit identity. 
D) social concept.

Question 15

Most people are overly pessimistic about their own abilities,competence and other good qualities.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Solomon Asch designed his famous conformity studies in order to see what people would do when a group unanimously contradicted an obvious fact.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

The social psychologists who conducted the prison study found dramatic results within a short period of time.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

According to the just-world hypothesis:

Accepted Answer

A) people's actions are just if they truly believe in them. 
B) if people work hard for something,then they deserve their reward. 
C) bad people are punished and good people are rewarded. 
D) international cooperation leads to justice. 
A) people's actions are just if they truly believe in them. 
B) if people work hard for something,then they deserve their reward. 
C) bad people are punished and good people are rewarded. 
D) international cooperation leads to justice.

Question 19

What is an attitude? Give an example of an attitude that would be considered explicit and one that would be considered implicit.

Accepted Answer

A good answer will include the following

Question 20

According to the just-world hypothesis,attributions are affected by the need to believe that the world is fair,that justice prevails,and that good people are rewarded and bad guys punished.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 8: Exstintion: Behavior in Social and Cultural Context

Social conventions,explicit laws,and implicit cultural standards are examples of:

Research on social roles suggests that:

Describe the technique that Joseph Goebbels called "The Big Lie."

An economic cause of prejudice is to:

Groupthink occurred when NASA officials insulated themselves from the objections of dissenting engineers and made the fatal decision to launch the Challenger.

Before Milgram's study on obedience began,psychiatrists predicted that one person in ten would administer the highest voltage.

Cognitive dissonance is a state of tension that occurs when a person's belief is incongruent with his or her behavior.

Altruism is the willingness to take selfless or dangerous action on behalf of others.

Conservatives tend to prefer the values of progress,rebelliousness,chaos,flexibility,feminism,and equality.

Janis,an administrative assistant at a London firm,is trying to find reasons for her boss's hostile behavior.She is likely to:

Adora and Yvette,and twelve of their closest friends from college,are planning to go to Key West during spring break.As members of the anonymous crowd of college students,Adora and Yvette will most likely:

Which of the following actions by the "learner" reduced the likelihood of being shocked by the "teacher" in Milgram's study?

In the social-psychological view,the horrifying violence of one group against another is due to inner aggressive drives that are part of human nature.

The part of a person's self-concept that is based on identification with a nation,culture,group,or gender is called:

Most people are overly pessimistic about their own abilities,competence and other good qualities.

Solomon Asch designed his famous conformity studies in order to see what people would do when a group unanimously contradicted an obvious fact.

The social psychologists who conducted the prison study found dramatic results within a short period of time.

According to the just-world hypothesis:

What is an attitude? Give an example of an attitude that would be considered explicit and one that would be considered implicit.

According to the just-world hypothesis,attributions are affected by the need to believe that the world is fair,that justice prevails,and that good people are rewarded and bad guys punished.

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