Question 1

"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Superman!" If you looked up, would you be conforming?

Accepted Answer

A)   Yes. You would be looking up because you were told to do so.
B)   No. Conformity requires that you base your behavior on what other people are doing, not being told to do so.
C)   Yes. Conformity means doing what you are told or else.
D)   No. Looking up only means you are curious.
E)   No. Looking up was a voluntary action, while conformity refers to reflexive actions. B

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT one of the "Ten Steps toward Evil"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Make it difficult to exit the situation.
B)   Provide people with social models of compliance.
C)   Encourage group members to dehumanize the victim.
D)   Provide people with an ideology that can be used to justify beliefs for action.
E)   Encourage members of the group to dissent in word and action. E

Question 3

Social ________ refers to the real, imagined, or symbolic presence of other people.

Accepted Answer

A)   obedience
B)   conformity
C)   loafing
D)   context
E)   obligation D

Question 4

The Asch effect is known as the classic illustration of

Accepted Answer

A)   intelligence.
B)   conformity.
C)   confusion.
D)   obeying authority.
E)   diffusion of responsibility.

Question 5

The term __________ refers to thinking about certain other groups or people as less than human, as feared or hated animals.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The term __________ refers to thinking about...

Question 6

A social psychologist has been invited to give a community lecture on the importance of Milgram's research. He asks a social psychology class for suggested titles. Which of the following titles might they suggest as the most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

A)   "Obedience and Aggression Are Inborn"
B)   "Do Not Underestimate the Power of Perceived Authority"
C)   "Training in Ethics Can Overcome the Pull of Obedience"
D)   "Make a Small Request First and the World Can Be Yours"
E)   "The Jigsaw Classroom and Reducing Racism"

Question 7

Laboratory studies of bystander intervention indicate that the likelihood of intervention ________ as the number of bystanders ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   decreased; increased
B)   decreased; decreased
C)   increased; increased
D)   was unchanged; increased
E)   increased; decreased

Question 8

Situation is to behavioral context as disposition is to

Accepted Answer

A)   thought.
B)   social standards.
C)   inner characteristics.
D)   maturation.
E)   childhood rearing.

Question 9

Naïve subjects in the Stanley Milgram experiment were given the opportunity to administer shocks to helpless victims. What was the maximum voltage that could be administered in one shock?

Accepted Answer

A)   100 volts
B)   450 volts
C)   625 volts
D)   999 volts
E)   1000 volts

Question 10

While watching Jeopardy, your roommate says, "Alex Trebek knows all the answers. He must be a genius." You tell your roommate she probably would not have said that if she had attended class the day the instructor discussed the topic of

Accepted Answer

A)   social facilitation.
B)   stereotyping illusions.
C)   internal attribution biases.
D)   fundamental attribution errors.
E)   stereotype threat.

Question 11

Asch's initial studies showed that overall conformity to group pressure occurred about ______ of the time.

Accepted Answer

A)   one-fifth
B)   one-third
C)   one-half
D)   three-fourths
E)   all

Question 12

It is 1951, and you are required to participate in a perception experiment. You join seven others seated in a room. You are shown a 10-inch test line and must choose the line that matches it in length from a choice of three lines. The experimenter, Solomon Asch, is studying

Accepted Answer

A)   bystander apathy.
B)   social loafing.
C)   groupthink.
D)   conformity.
E)   interpersonal attraction.

Question 13

People are most likely to help out soon in an emergency situation if

Accepted Answer

A)   they believe others are available to help.
B)   they have an outgoing personality.
C)   they have an unusual personality.
D)   others are doing nothing.
E)   there are few others who can help.

Question 14

As a result of diffusion of responsibility, people in a bystander situation tend to

Accepted Answer

A)   obey authority figures.
B)   do what others do.
C)   be attracted to those similar to themselves.
D)   be less likely to help others.
E)   try to control others' behavior.

Question 15

Which social psychology theory best explains the fact that the majority of the riots that took place following the trial of the police officers accused of beating Rodney King did not take place in White neighborhoods, but rather in the neighborhoods of Asian Americans and Asians who had recently immigrated to the United States?

Accepted Answer

A)   scapegoating
B)   social diffusion
C)   the bystander intervention problem
D)   prejudice
E)   groupthink

Question 16

A social group of people viewed as competitors, enemies, or different and unworthy of respect is a(n)

Accepted Answer

A)   pariah.
B)   in-group.
C)   threat-group.
D)   out-group.
E)   scapegoat.

Question 17

Herbie and Irene have been married for almost 55 years. Through it all they have remained committed to each other and have been as close as two people can be. Over the years the passion has waned but they still stayed together. Sternberg would call this type of love

Accepted Answer

A)   consummate.
B)   romantic.
C)   intimate.
D)   companionate.
E)   empty.

Question 18

When there is a large group of bystanders, individuals are likely to experience

Accepted Answer

A)   diffusion of responsibility.
B)   peer pressure.
C)   blind obedience.
D)   situationism.
E)   the similarity principle.

Question 19

The high school football team viewed the opposing team as not only competitors but as the

Accepted Answer

A)   progroup.
B)   antigroup.
C)   ingroup.
D)   outgroup.
E)   regroup.

Question 20

Our social reality is a(n) ________ interpretation of other people and our relationships.

Accepted Answer

A)   subjective
B)   influential
C)   objective
D)   diffusive
E)   accurate

Exam 11: Social Psychology