Question 1

According to Gawronski,which of the following elements has the greatest effect on reducing prejudice?

Accepted Answer

A)  listening to persuasive messages against prejudice 
B)  having people write arguments against prejudice 
C)  present information about a specific group in neutral or non-affective situations 
D)  all of the above used together are most effective

Question 2

Provide two explanations for the occurrence of social loafing.

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Question 3

Give an example of the self-serving bias from your own experience.

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Question 4

What form of faulty group decision making occurs when group members strive too hard for unanimity?

Accepted Answer

A)  groupthink 
B)  group polarization 
C)  social loafing 
D)  social facilitation

Question 5

Dr.Pamukl is a brilliant lecturer who strongly prefers spending time alone reading to being in the company of other people.Despite being so introverted,however,she is very outgoing while lecturing in front of her class.In fact,she is so outgoing during her lectures that her students have concluded that she is an extrovert.What error have they committed when they label her an extrovert?

Accepted Answer

A)  saliency bias 
B)  self-serving error 
C)  faulty judgment error 
D)  fundamental attribution error

Question 6

Which of the following is most associated with true altruism?

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A)  sustained giving 
B)  reducing one's own distress 
C)  helping someone outside of one's own group 
D)  giving to gain rewards

Question 7

Give an example of the foot-in-the-door persuasion technique.

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Question 8

Which of the following is true about the Stanford Prison experiment?

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A)  The effect of social roles on behaviour was not as strong as experimenters anticipated. 
B)  Role playing is less likely to produce maladaptive behaviour than actual, legitimate roles. 
C)  Social roles can have extreme effects on behaviour. 
D)  The experiment was stopped because it lacked realistic conditions.

Question 9

When Zain is asked what he thinks about abortion,he says that he thinks it is a very difficult decision for anyone to end your child's life,but he also thinks that in some cases it is maybe the best thing,and that women should at least have the choice.Without choice,he says much uglier things happen to children than abortion.Which component of an attitude is Zain making apparent?

Accepted Answer

A)  affective 
B)  cognitive 
C)  emotional 
D)  behavioural

Question 10

Attitudes are NOT necessarily related to behaviours.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Half an hour before the store closes,Bryan's boss asks him to put away a great deal of stock.Knowing that this would take hours,five other employees offer to help Bryan.This is an example of a/an ___ task.

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A)  additive 
B)  conjunctive 
C)  disjunctive 
D)  divisible

Question 12

What did Milgram find when he studied gender effects on obedience?

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Question 13

Suppose that Finn was a participant in Milgram's study on obedience.If he responded in this study as most people did,what did he do?

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A)  Shocked the learner with the maximum voltage level. 
B)  Stopped shocking the learner after the learner complained of heart problems. 
C)  Stopped shocking the learner as soon as they expressed that they wanted to quit. 
D)  Refused to participate once he knew what he was going to be required to do and he didn't administer any shocks to the learner.

Question 14

Which of the following is the best example of a situation that would result in social loafing?

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A)  A group of gun enthusiasts meeting to discuss changing gun laws in Canada. 
B)  A group of volunteers picking up garbage in a public park. 
C)  A group of Conservation politicians deciding how to vote on an upcoming issue. 
D)  A group of students working together on a class project.

Question 15

Mark asked his roommate Will to clean his side of the room as a favour.When Will refused to do so,Mark made a more moderate request by asking Will to feed his pet fish over the weekend.What persuasion technique was used in this example?

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Question 16

What is the difference between the central route and the peripheral routes to persuasion?

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A)  The peripheral route is likely to cause behaviour change much faster than the central route. 
B)  The central route is likely to influence decisions much longer than the peripheral route. 
C)  The central route is more likely influenced by the humour of the message than the peripheral route. 
D)  The peripheral route is achieved by the door-in-the-face technique while the central route is achieved by the foot-in-the-door technique.

Question 17

Zach worked for an IT company making $50 an hour when he made a lateral career change and began working for a different company.After his departure,there was a strike at his old workplace and everyone got a pay raise.Mac took Zach's place after the strike and ended up making $100 an hour for doing the same work.If Zach and Mac are each asked how much they like their jobs at each of their companies,what would cognitive dissonance theory predict they will say?

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A)  Both Mac and Zach will say they dislike their jobs to the same degree at this company. 
B)  Mac will rate his job at this company as better than Zach. 
C)  Zach will rate his job at this company as better than Mac. 
D)  Both Mac and Zach will say they like their jobs to the same degree at this company.

Question 18

Carlos noticed that Owen received a low score on his last biology exam,and assumed that Owen's poor test performance was due to laziness.What type of attribution did Carlos make about Owen?

Accepted Answer

A)  social 
B)  behavioural 
C)  situational 
D)  dispositional

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT a technique that is used to persuade others?

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A)  bogus pipeline technique 
B)  foot-in-the-door technique 
C)  door-in-the-face technique 
D)  appeals to fear technique

Question 20

Attributions are best defined as

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A)  causal explanations of our own or another's behaviour. 
B)  impressions about an individual based on observing their behaviour. 
C)  motivational forces that drive behaviour. 
D)  environmental stimuli that affect behaviour.

Exam 13: social Psychology