Question 1

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) social influence 
C) the social comparison theory 
D) the fundamental attribution error

Question 2

The social group viewed as the one a person identifies with is called a(n)

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

In which of the following scenarios would you be most likely to conform by giving the same response as the confederates?

Accepted Answer

A) Twelve confederates give the same answer and one confederate provides the correct response. 
B) Eight confederates give the same answer and one provides a different but also incorrect response. 
C) Four confederates give the same answer and all of the responses are the same. 
D) Two confederates give the same answer and one provides another answer that is incorrect.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

What was the grade level of the students with whom Jane Elliott performed her famous blue eye-brown eye demonstration?

Accepted Answer

A) Kindergarten 
B) Grade one 
C) Grade two 
D) Grade three

Question 6

________ is the assumption that behaviours among individual members of a group are due to internal dispositions of individuals within the group.

Accepted Answer

A) The ultimate attribution error 
B) Implied association 
C) The scapegoat hypothesis 
D) The just-world hypothesis

Question 7

From an evolutionary perspective,the principle of _______________ helps to explain why we tend to form alliances with insiders and mistrust outsiders.

Accepted Answer

A) kin selection 
B) adaptive conservatism 
C) instinctual drift 
D) affective forecasting

Question 8

Tarek is a camp counsellor and has set up a round robin game of "tug-of-war" with all the kids.Some kids play in teams of six people on each side,whereas others choose to play the game with only two people per side.Based on principles of social loafing,in which group will all the individual members work the hardest to win?

Accepted Answer

A) Teams of six people 
B) Teams of two people 
C) Teams of six people if they have lost a round 
D) Both teams will work equally hard.

Question 9

The most creative demonstration of cognitive dissonance theory involved a situation where participants were asked to

Accepted Answer

A) perform extremely boring manual tasks. 
B) taste fried grasshoppers. 
C) give a learner shocks for incorrect answers. 
D) pretend they were either a prisoner or a guard.

Question 10

Robin is completing an online survey and is asked the following questions: (1)How do you feel about abortion? and (2)Do you think that abortions should be provided to pregnant teenagers without parental consent? The first question is assessing Robin's _____________ and the second question is assessing her _____________.

Accepted Answer

A) belief;attitude 
B) attitude;belief 
C) schema;stereotype 
D) stereotype;schema

Question 11

An individual from which of the following cultures would be least likely to engage in the fundamental attribution error?

Accepted Answer

A) Canada 
B) England 
C) Japan 
D) India

Question 12

There are two alternative pathways to persuading others.One leads us to evaluate the merits of the persuasive arguments carefully and thoughtfully.This is known as the

Accepted Answer

A) central route. 
B) peripheral route. 
C) afferent route. 
D) efferent route.

Question 13

Which statement best describes an important finding of Milgram's classic research?

Accepted Answer

A) Individuals easily conform to group norms. 
B) The presence of other people makes aggression more likely. 
C) People will easily obey an authority figure and do harm to others. 
D) Agreeing to a small request makes it more likely you will agree to a big request.

Question 14

Henry Tajfel (1982)developed what laboratory technique to create group divisions and measure discrimination based on arbitrary differences?

Accepted Answer

A) eye-colour discrimination task 
B) minimal intergroup paradigm 
C) scapegoating method 
D) exclusion-inclusion paradigm

Question 15

Which of the following is a misconception held about cults?

Accepted Answer

A) Cult leaders likely suffer from serious mental illness. 
B) Cult members are discouraged from questioning the group's assumptions. 
C) All cult members are brainwashed. 
D) Cult members may have a marked rigidity of thinking

Question 16

A belief

Accepted Answer

A) is a conclusion regarding factual evidence. 
B) includes an emotional component. 
C) is an attitude. 
D) includes a behavioural component.

Question 17

One criticism of Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment is that participants may have experienced ___________________ to behave according to their assigned roles as prisoners or guards.

Accepted Answer

A) deindividuation 
B) demand characteristics 
C) confirmation bias 
D) obedience

Question 18

All of the following are symptoms of groupthink except

Accepted Answer

A) openness to differing opinions. 
B) the belief that the group is invulnerable. 
C) the belief that those who oppose the group have no worthwhile opinions. 
D) the belief that the group can do no wrong.

Question 19

The World-Will-End-on-June-7 group got together on June 7 to pray as the world ended.The next day the world did not end.The leader of the group said,"Our prayers saved the world." What process was responsible for the attitude change?

Accepted Answer

A) Implicit egotism 
B) Maladaptive gullibility 
C) Impression management 
D) Cognitive dissonance

Question 20

The tendency of people to comply with a second,larger request after complying with a small request is called the ______ technique.

Accepted Answer

A) foot-in-the-door 
B) door-in-the-face 
C) low-ball 
D) bait-and-switch

Exam 13: D: Social Psychology