Question 1

People who succeed while self-handicapping

Accepted Answer

A)  are showing a strong belief in themselves. 
B)  will get a self-image boost. 
C)  are attempting to avoid success. 
D)  will tend to feel very guilty and become even more depressed.

Question 2

Finding something attractive or unattractive,desirable or undesirable is the basis for which component of an attitude?

Accepted Answer

A)  belief 
B)  status 
C)  emotional 
D)  action

Question 3

When many people act alike,it implies that their behavior is externally-caused due to

Accepted Answer

A)  complimentary factors. 
B)  distinctiveness. 
C)  consensus. 
D)  interdependence.

Question 4

The research study that involved wrongly-addressed materials being sent to English households with the packages bearing either an English name or an Irish name was referred to as the

Accepted Answer

A)  cognitive dissonance messaging. 
B)  misdirected letter technique. 
C)  social distance scale. 
D)  "F" test.

Question 5

According to your textbook,which of the following is NOT one of the six ways in which attitudes are acquired?

Accepted Answer

A)  mass media 
B)  group membership 
C)  chance conditioning 
D)  innate tendencies

Question 6

Because we seldom know the real reasons for others' actions,we tend to infer causes from

Accepted Answer

A)  intuition. 
B)  objective facts. 
C)  circumstances. 
D)  subjective emotions.

Question 7

If you attribute your friend's angry outburst to the frustrating situation he was in and not to his personality,you believe your friend's behavior was due to a(n)__________ cause.

Accepted Answer

A)  inferential 
B)  external 
C)  cognitive 
D)  internal

Question 8

Ramon is convinced that less restrictive ownership of guns by law-abiding citizens will greatly reduce the crime rates in this country.Ramon's ideas regarding gun ownership and crime rates represent which component of an attitude?

Accepted Answer

A)  belief 
B)  action 
C)  experience 
D)  emotion

Question 9

If millions of people go to see a particular movie,we tend to say the movie is "good" based on

Accepted Answer

A)  self-handicapping factors. 
B)  consensus. 
C)  distinctiveness. 
D)  situational demands.

Question 10

The degree of attraction among group members or their commitment to remaining in the group is called

Accepted Answer

A)  group structure. 
B)  group cohesiveness. 
C)  groupthink. 
D)  compliance.

Question 11

Jared is asked to freely express his attitudes toward the question: "What do you think about freedom of speech on college campuses?" Jared's attitude toward free speech on college campuses is being assessed using

Accepted Answer

A)  an attitude scale. 
B)  the reference rating approach. 
C)  an open-ended interview. 
D)  the social acceptance scale.

Question 12

Any time you set up excuses for a poor performance,such as making a half-hearted effort,claiming to be ill,and procrastinating,you are exhibiting

Accepted Answer

A)  the actor-observer bias. 
B)  the fundamental attribution error. 
C)  role conflict. 
D)  self-handicapping behavior.

Question 13

Being the member of a particular generation,such as the Baby Boomers,Generation X,or Generation Y,would be an example of a(n)__________ role.

Accepted Answer

A)  achieved 
B)  ascribed 
C)  temporary 
D)  permanent

Question 14

Which attitude measurement would most likely ask respondents to express agreement or disagreement on a five-point scale regarding various issues?

Accepted Answer

A)  a social distance scale 
B)  an attitude scale 
C)  an open-ended interview 
D)  the evaluative scale

Question 15

In attribution theory,the unstated expectations that define appropriate behavior in various settings are known as

Accepted Answer

A)  social affiliations. 
B)  proxemics. 
C)  social affirmations. 
D)  situational demands.

Question 16

Karen goes on and on about a movie she just saw and about how wonderful it was.However,the movie has been universally panned by critics,and theaters are actually refusing to show it because of poor attendance.You are likely to think which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  "Hmmm, it sounds like a really good movie.I should go and see it." 
B)  "Critics are always wrong about movies.I should go and see it." 
C)  "The movie has probably been misinterpreted." 
D)  "Karen has always had a really weird taste in movies, and only she could like this movie."

Question 17

The basis for much of the power that groups exert over us involves

Accepted Answer

A)  group structure. 
B)  group cohesiveness. 
C)  groupthink. 
D)  group compliance.

Question 18

Doug believes that people "either have ability or they don't have it," a belief that makes Doug more prone to

Accepted Answer

A)  self-handicapping. 
B)  social facilitation. 
C)  situational demands. 
D)  having strong convictions.

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT a reason that some attitudes are acted on and others are not?

Accepted Answer

A)  immediate consequences of our actions 
B)  long-standing habits 
C)  atypical stereotyping 
D)  expectations regarding how others will evaluate our actions

Question 20

You are walking into a store when a man rudely cuts in front of you,almost shoving you against a store display."What a jerk!" you think to yourself until you see the same man performing an emergency tracheotomy on a women with a collapsed windpipe in the store.You have just

Accepted Answer

A)  discounted a person's actions due to situational demands. 
B)  self-handicapped. 
C)  overemphasized the object in this action sequence. 
D)  made the fundamental attribution error.

Exam 16: A: Social Thinking and Social Influence