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Test Bank For Social Psychology, 2nd Canadian Edition Saba Safdar, Catherine A. Sanderson
Table of contents
1 Introducing Social Psychology 2
2 The Self: Self-Perception and Self-Presentation 62
3 Social Perception 106
4 Social Cognition 140
5 Attitude Formation and Change 178
6 Persuasion 214
7 Social Influence: Norms, Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience 248
8 Group Processes 290
9 Intergroup Relations 320
10 Stereotype, Prejudice, and Discrimination 354
11 Aggression 398
12 Altruism and Prosocial Behaviour 438
13 Interpersonal Attraction and Close Relationships 480
Module Research Methods
Package Title: Test Bank
Course Title: Sanderson, Social Psychology, Canadian Edition
Chapter Number: 01 – INTRODUCING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Question type: Multiple Choice
1) Social psychology is defined by all of the following except
- a) scientific study.
- b) study of how thoughts and attitudes are influenced by the social world.
- c) the awareness of the influence of the individual.
- d) study of how behaviours are influenced by the social world.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective 1: What social psychology is.
Section Reference 1: What Is Social Psychology?
2) Social psychologists are interested in all of the following topics, except
- a) how we think about ourselves.
- b) how we process and store information.
- c) how we think, feel and act in the social world.
- d) how our attitudes and behaviour shape the social world.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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3) “Bright colors improve students’ moods” is an example of
- a) hindsight bias.
- b) theory.
- c) hypothesis.
- d) scientific method.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective 1: What social psychology is.
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4) “Negative political messages are more persuasive than positive political messages” is a(n)
- a) theory.
- b) research finding.
- c) hypothesis.
- d) untestable prediction.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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5) The scientific method is used as a research method to do all of the following, except
- a) investigate phenomena.
- b) acquire new knowledge.
- c) apply common sense.
- d) evaluate and integrate previous knowledge.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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6) Accepting surprising findings as true requires using
- a) hindsight bias.
- b) social comparison.
- c) hypotheses.
- d) scientific method.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
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7) Social psychologists use ______________ when conducting research.
- a) the scientific method
- b) behaviourism
- c) the self-fulfilling prophecy
- d) hindsight bias
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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8) “The hotter a testing room is, the lower the test scores will be,” is an example of
- a) the scientific method.
- b) a hypothesis.
- c) hindsight bias.
- d) the self-fulfilling prophecy.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective 1: What social psychology is.
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9) How our views about ourselves are dependent on our environment is also referred to as
- a) social-presentation.
- b) self-presentation.
- c) self-perception.
- d) environmental perception.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
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10) Assessing your place amongst a new group of people is an example of the environment’s influences on
- a) environmental perception.
- b) self-perception.
- c) self-presentation.
- d) self-assessment.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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11) Holly has a hybrid electric car and believes that this sends the message that she is concerned about the environment. Owning a hybrid electric car conveys a part of Holly’s
- a) global awareness.
- b) green-presentation.
- c) self-sacrifice.
- d) self-presentation.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
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12) “I have fashion sense” is to _______ as fashion designer labels is to _______.
- a) self-perception; self-presentation
- b) self-perception; social presentation
- c) self-presentation; self perception
- d) self-presentation; social perception
Answer: a
Difficulty: Hard
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13) After observing Nicole sitting quietly at a party, you assume that Nicole is an introvert. That assumption is a
- a) self-perception.
- b) social perception.
- c) self-presentation.
- d) social-presentation.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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14) Which of the following is an example of social cognition?
- a) You think of yourself as a “jock”.
- b) You always buy expensive clothing to impress your friends.
- c) You attend every class lecture.
- d) You decide that the new girl in class must be a snob because you saw her sitting by herself in the cafeteria.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Hard
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15) Chartrand & Bargh (1999) found that participants in an experiment unconsciously mimicked their partner’s behaviour, such as rubbing their face or shaking a foot. This is an example of
- a) social influence.
- b) social cognition.
- c) self-presentation.
- d) self-perception.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Hard
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16) The fact that you are more likely to help a person in need when no one else is around can be explained by
- a) internal attributions.
- b) self comparison.
- c) self misperception.
- d) social influence.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
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17) Even though more people die from heart attacks than in airplane accidents, people are more likely to fear air travel. This is an explanation of error in our
- a) self misperception.
- b) self attributes.
- c) canine perception.
- d) social cognition.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
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18) How we think about the world is known as
- a) self cognition.
- b) self perception.
- c) social cognition.
- d) social perception.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
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19) Kai is interested in working in advertising so he is studying how to impact people’s attitudes and behaviours through
- a) social presentation.
- b) cognitive presentation.
- c) social influence.
- d) social advertising.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
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20) Eric expected the children dressed in soccer uniforms to be experienced players so he put them on the first team; the team consequently played very well and won several games. This example demonstrates
- a) self influence.
- b) self-fulfilling prophecy.
- c) self comparison.
- d) self control.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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21) Andy watched as the man pulled a wallet from someone else’s backpack, but when he noticed that others saw it and did nothing. Andy did nothing as well. Andy’s inaction was the result of
- a) social influence.
- b) social perception.
- c) social comparison.
- d) social presentation.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Hard
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22) You are less likely to litter in the presence of other people, due to
- a) social perception.
- b) self cognition.
- c) social influence.
- d) self attributes.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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23) Other people’s attitudes and behaviours influence our own thoughts and behaviours; a process known as
- a) social perception.
- b) social influence.
- c) self cognition.
- d) public self influence.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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24) Muehlenhard, Humphreys, Jozkowski, and Peterson’s (2016) literature review found that ____________________ influenced students’ decisions about using a condom during sex.
- a) religious background
- b) fear of pregnancy
- c) fear of contracting sexually-transmitted infections
- d) ambivalence about sexual activity
Answer: d
Difficulty: Hard
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25) Collado, Johnson, Loya, Johnson, and Yi (2017) found that ________________ increased the likelihood of people having unprotected sex.
- a) a highly attractive potential sexual partner
- b) a positive attitude towards casual sex
- c) lack of knowledge about sexually-transmitted infections
- d) low levels of self-efficacy
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
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26) In their literature review on sexual consent, Muehlenhard, Humphreys, Jozkowski, and Peterson (2016) found that college students who were ambivalent about sex _______________
- a) were more influenced by TV content than their peers
- b) tended to view sex as something unplanned
- c) had a higher chance of contracting a sexually-transmitted infection
- d) engaged more frequently in sexual activities
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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27) ___________ is the notion that consent should be verbally expressed and cannot be assumed.
- a) Traditional consent
- b) Affirmative consent
- c) Active consent
- d) Overt consent
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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28) Social psychology includes all of the following, except
- a) how we think about ourselves.
- b) how we think and behave in the social world.
- c) how our attitudes and behaviours shape the social world.
- d) how our dispositional traits remain stable over time.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
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29) Erica feels much taller when she is with the other teens from her youth group than she does when she spends time with the other members of the school basketball team. This is an example of which aspect of social psychology?
- a) how we think, feel, and act in the social world
- b) how our attitudes and behaviours shape the social world
- c) how we think about ourselves
- d) how we process and store information
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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30) When Clint realized that the prices at this restaurant were more expensive than he had ever paid before, he assumed that the food there would be superior to others. This is an example of which aspect of social psychology?
- a) how we think, feel, and act in the social world
- b) how our attitudes and behaviours shape the social world
- c) how we think about ourselves
- d) how we process and store information
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
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31) Vicki didn’t expect Jessica to be very good at soccer so she didn’t bother to take her to many of the soccer practices. As a result, Jessica was not very good at soccer and didn’t get to play often at the matches. This is an example of which aspect of social psychology?
- a) how we think, feel, and act in the social world
- b) how our attitudes and behaviours shape the social world
- c) how we think about ourselves
- d) how we process and store information
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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32) One topic that social psychologists study is ____________, or how we think about ourselves.
- a) self-presentation
- b) social perception
- c) self-perception
- d) social cognition
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
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33) Carrie works hard to appear to be rich. She flaunts expensive jewellery, drives a fancy car, and wears designer clothing. Carrie is focusing on her
- a) self-perception.
- b) social perception.
- c) self-presentation.
- d) self-fulfilling prophecy.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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34) ___________ is the study of how we think about people and about the social world.
- a) The fundamental attribution error
- b) Self-perception
- c) Social cognition
- d) Social influence
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
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35) Social cognition is one type of
- a) social perception.
- b) self-perception.
- c) social influence.
- d) behaviourism.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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36) One subtle example of ______________ is the finding that people tend to be more willing to help someone when they are alone with the victim than when other people are present.
- a) self-presentation
- b) social influence
- c) behaviourism
- d) the self-fulfilling prophecy
Answer: b
Difficulty: Hard
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37) In the ____________, a person’s expectations about someone else causes them to elicit the expected behaviours from the individual.
- a) fundamental attribution error
- b) social cognition
- c) social influence
- d) self-fulfilling prophecy
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
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38) Tamara is working at an ice cream shop when a man dressed in tight clothing comes in. Tamara figures the guy must be a jerk because she knew someone who dressed like that and was rude to women. Instead of her normal friendly greeting, Tamara says, “So what do you want?” The man shouts his order at her. He sure is rude, Tamara thinks as she scoops his ice cream. This best exemplifies
- a) poor self-perception.
- b) a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- c) the fundamental attribution error.
- d) Gestalt psychology.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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Question type: True/False
39) Social psychology examines the influence of personality on an individual’s beliefs and behaviours.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
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40) A correlation is a testable prediction about the conditions under which an event will occur.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
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41) Self-perception is how we view ourselves, in particular, how these views depend upon our environment.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
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42) Self-presentation strategies help Ali impress the job interviewer.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
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43) People’s social perceptions are most often influenced by situational factors, ignoring the personal.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
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44) Our beliefs about the social world only influence our behaviours when we know our beliefs are accurate.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
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Question type: Text Entry
45) The scientific study of how people’s thoughts, attitudes, and behaviours are influenced by factors in the social world is known as ________.
Answer: social psychology
Difficulty: Easy
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46) _______ _______ is a term to describe how people work to convey certain images of themselves to others.
Answer: Self-presentation
Difficulty: Easy
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47) _______ _______ is a term to describe how we think about ourselves.
Answer: Self-perception
Difficulty: Easy
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48) ________ _______ is the process used to describe how people form impressions and make inferences about other people and events in the social world.
Answer: Social perception
Difficulty: Medium
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49) How we think about the social world can be referred to as _______ ________.
Answer: social cognition
Difficulty: Medium
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50) The impact of other people’s attitudes and behaviours on our own thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and behaviour is known as _______ _______.
Answer: social influence
Difficulty: Medium
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Question type: Multiple Choice
51) Factors influencing early research in social psychology included all of the following, except
- a) psychodynamic psychology.
- b) Gestalt psychology.
- c) historical events.
- d) behaviourism.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective 1: How social psychology has evolved over time.
Section Reference 1: How Has Social Psychology Evolved over Time?
52) Understanding behaviour due to positive and negative events on that behaviour is the focus of
- a) Gestalt psychology.
- b) behaviourism.
- c) cognitive psychology.
- d) psychodynamic psychology.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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53) According to behaviourism, a behaviour followed by a reward would
- a) increase.
- b) decrease.
- c) be unaffected.
- d) stop.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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54) The social learning perspective was strongly influenced by
- a) Gestalt psychology.
- b) behaviourism.
- c) psychodynamic psychology.
- d) humanism.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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55) The social learning perspective describes people in all of the following ways, except
- a) they form behaviours when reinforced for that behaviour.
- b) they form behaviours when they observe others reinforced for that behaviour.
- c) people make interpretations of their behaviour based on their feelings and attitudes.
- d) people form positive attitudes about behaviours they observe.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Hard
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56) The branch of psychology that emphasized the importance of looking at the whole as opposed to distinct parts is known as
- a) behaviourism.
- b) cognitive psychology.
- c) humanism.
- d) Gestalt psychology.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
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57) Who is the Gestalt psychologist often considered the founder of social psychology?
- a) Kurt Lewin
- b) Sigmund Freud
- c) B.F. Skinner
- d) Edward Thorndike
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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58) In their study, Clark and Clark (1940) found that African American children were more likely to label a black doll as “bad” (compared to a white doll). Studies like this demonstrated the negative effects of
- a) racial segregation
- b) child advertising
- c) TV content
- d) obedience to authority
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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59) All of the following historical events had an influence on the new subfield of social psychology except
- a) Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in the 1930’s.
- b) Nazi atrocities during World War II.
- c) imprisonment of political dissidents in Turkey in the 1930’s.
- d) women entering the workforce during World War II.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
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60) In response to the earlier research on evil behaviour, more recent research in social psychology has developed in a new subfield of
- a) virtuous psychology.
- b) strengths psychology.
- c) altruistic psychology.
- d) positive psychology.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
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61) The focus of positive psychology includes all of the following, except
- a) people’s virtues and strengths.
- b) traits associated with life satisfaction.
- c) stereotyping and prejudice.
- d) attraction and leadership.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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62) The first social psychology textbook was written by
- a) Floyd Allport.
- b) Sigmund Freud.
- c) Kurt Lewin.
- d) B.F. Skinner.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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63) Timmy is more likely to clean his room in the future if he is given a popsicle after each time he cleans it. This best exemplifies which perspective?
- a) Gestalt psychology
- b) Positive psychology
- c) Behaviourism
- d) The fundamental attribution error perspective
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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64) Which of the following people was a renowned behaviourist?
- a) Stanley Milgram
- b) B. F. Skinner
- c) Kurt Lewin
- d) Floyd Allport
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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65) The classic Dog Picture is an example of
- a) behaviourism.
- b) the self-fulfilling prophecy.
- c) Gestalt psychology.
- d) positive psychology.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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66) Who is considered to be the father of modern social psychology?
- a) Kurt Lewin
- b) Floyd Allport
- c) Sigmund Freud
- d) B.F. Skinner
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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67) Who conducted classic research on the role of authority in leading to obedience?
- a) Kenneth Clark
- b) B.F. Skinner
- c) Kurt Lewin
- d) Stanley Milgram
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
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68) How can the subfield of positive psychology best be characterized?
- a) as a subfield directly sparked by horrific events like the Holocaust
- b) as a new subfield that studies topics early social psychologists omitted
- c) as the first subfield in social psychology
- d) as a subfield created by Kurt Lewin
Answer: b
Difficulty: Hard
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Question type: True/False
69) Social psychology is one of the oldest fields in the discipline of psychology.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
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70) The social learning perspective has its foundation in Gestalt psychology.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
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71) Through behaviourism, one can infer people’s feelings, thoughts, and attitudes.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
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72) Gestalt psychologists were interested in the distinctive parts of any object.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
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73) A Gestalt psychologist, Kurt Lewin, is often considered the founder of modern social psychology.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
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74) Most studies in psychology recognize the importance of culture on human cognition and behaviour.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
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75) Psychological findings from Western Europe and North America are always easily generalizable to people all over the world – after all, humans are all the same.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
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76) The goal of cultural and cross-cultural research is solely to identify cultural differences.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
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77) Despite psychological knowledge being mostly produced in Western Europe and North America, studies conducted by researchers from other parts of the world are equally valued and promptly shared between Western academicians.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
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78) Hindsight bias exists when you believe that you knew the research results all along.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
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Question type: Text Entry
79) _______ is a perspective that describes behaviour as determined by rewards and punishment.
Answer: Behaviourism
Difficulty: Easy
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Question type: Multiple Choice
80) The bias that encourages people to think they “knew it all along,” is known as
- a) hindsight bias.
- b) social comparison.
- c) social bias.
- d) identical bias.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Whether social psychology is really just common sense.
Section Reference 1: Is Social Psychology Really Just Common Sense?
81) Once people hear the findings of the research, they often express the belief that those results were to be expected, a bias known as
- a) social comparison.
- b) social cognition.
- c) social bias.
- d) hindsight bias.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
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82) Using economic principles to examine gender differences in sexual behaviour, Baumeister and Vohs (2004) concluded that viewing sex as a resource, it is
- a) bought by women, sold by men.
- b) a negotiation that is neither bought or sold.
- c) bought by men, sold by women.
- d) a negotiation in which it is bought by both men and women.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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83) Research on societal attitudes toward premarital sexuality (Allison & Risman, 2013) found that
- a) attitudes haven’t changed since the 1960s
- b) women are more sexist than men
- c) men were far more respectful than women
- d) although most respondents did not show a double standard, men were more critical of women’s past sexual experiences
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
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84) One way to avoid thinking that beliefs are nothing more than common sense is to use
- a) hindsight bias.
- b) scientific method.
- c) social comparison.
- d) behaviourism.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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85) According to the author, why could the ready application of social psychology theories and research be considered a curse?
- a) because people may view social psychology as “common sense”
- b) because people may use the theories and research without understanding the effort that went into creating them
- c) because people may misuse the theories and research to do harmful things
- d) actually the author does not believe it could be considered a curse
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
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86) The tendency to think an outcome was inevitable after the outcome is known is called the
- a) fundamental attribution error.
- b) positive psychology hypothesis.
- c) hindsight bias.
- d) scientific method.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
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87) According to the box on gender differences in sexual behaviour, which of the following is true?
- a) Sex for women is largely a no-cost proposition.
- b) Women tend to desire sex earlier in a relationship than men do.
- c) Women are more interested in “one-night stands” than are men.
- d) Sex for men is largely a no-cost proposition.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
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88) According to the text, gender differences in sexual behaviour can be explained using what kind of principles?
- a) economic
- b) positive psychology
- c) sexual
- d) hindsight bias
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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89) According to the author, the finding that happy people make more money is a good example of
- a) how initial findings are often incorrect.
- b) the need for critical thinking when considering research findings.
- c) the hindsight bias in action.
- d) the fundamental attribution error in action.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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90) Research that demonstrates a relationship between two things, for example, family dinners and better grades, requires all of the following considerations, except
- a) critical thinking.
- b) causal statements.
- c) alternative explanations.
- d) additional questioning.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Hard
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91) The relationship between family meal frequency and academic outcomes is an example of
- a) a controlled randomized lab experiment
- b) a correlational finding
- c) a direct replication of a previous study
- d) hindsight bias
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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92) The positive relationship between family meal frequency and higher grades might be explained by
- a) a strong parent-child relationship
- b) the overall amount of time spent with the child
- c) children with poor academic performance being less interested in eating dinner with their families
- d) all of the above
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
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93) Which of the following is not a main principle of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) Code of Ethics:
- a) Respect for the Dignity of Persons and Peoples
- b) Responsible Caring
- c) Integrity in Relationships
- d) Responsibility to Science
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
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94) Obtaining informed consent from independent individuals and groups is an example of the ethical principle of
- a) Respect for the Dignity of Persons and Peoples
- b) Responsible Caring
- c) Integrity in Relationships
- d) Responsibility to Society
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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95) Informing participants of how their contributions fit into the bigger picture of a research is an example of the ethical principle of
- a) Respect for the Dignity of Persons and Peoples
- b) Responsible Caring
- c) Integrity in Relationships
- d) Responsibility to Society
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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96) Researchers engaging in continued education and professional growth for themselves is an example of the ethical principle of
- a) Respect for the Dignity of Persons and Peoples
- b) Responsible Caring
- c) Integrity in Relationships
- d) Responsibility to Society
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
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Question type: True/False
97) People may view social psychology as mere common sense due to the early focus on horrific world events.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
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Question type: Multiple Choice
98) People from individualistic cultures tend to see the individual as _______ and the environment as _______
- a) stable/fixed; changeable
- b) changeable; stable/fixed
- c) self-centred; a separate entity
- d) independent; an external force
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective 1: How social psychology is connected to other fields.
Section Reference 1: How Is Social Psychology Connected to Other Fields?
99) Norelle decided that the man who rushed to the front of the line did so due to situational factors. She may have attributed his behaviour to
- a) type A personality.
- b) friends waiting impatiently in the car.
- c) aggressiveness.
- d) rudeness.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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100) Eva attributed the man beeping his horn to internal traits. She may have thought his behaviour was due to
- a) heavy traffic.
- b) bad weather.
- c) poor placement of the car horn.
- d) aggression.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
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101) Personality factors found to interact with social support to influence posttraumatic growth in children and adolescents who witnessed the Russo-Georgian War were
- a) agreeableness and openness
- b) extraversion and conscientiousness
- c) conscientiousness and neuroticism
- d) extraversion and agreeableness
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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102) A woman is late for a dentist appointment. This occurred because she hit construction on her way to the office. The construction is an example of a(n) _____________ that caused the woman’s tardiness.
- a) internal trait
- b) self-fulfilling prophecy
- c) situational factor
- d) internal characteristic
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
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103) A social neuroscience study (Chen, Wagner, Kelley, & Heatherton, 2015) found that self-construal changes during the process of acculturation where accompanied by a different pattern of brain activation in
- a) the posterior cingulate cortex and the precuneus
- b) the posterior superior temporal sulcus
- c) the superior temporal gyrus and the medial dorsal thalamus
- d) the right and left caudate nuclei
Answer: a
Difficulty: Hard
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104) _______ is to the role of individual differences as _______ is to the role of the situation.
- a) Social psychology; personality psychology
- b) Clinical psychology; personality psychology
- c) Personality psychology; social psychology
- d) Social psychology; clinical psychology
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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105) Psychologists who focus on individual differences are connected to the subfield of
- a) social psychology.
- b) personality psychology.
- c) behaviourism.
- d) clinical psychology.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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106) The subfield of psychology that focuses on diagnosis and treatment of mental health problems is known as
- a) clinical psychology.
- b) social psychology.
- c) personality psychology.
- d) behaviourism.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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107) Self-esteem or prosocial orientation are two examples of ways that _______ psychology may be a focus for social psychology research.
- a) clinical psychology
- b) evolutionary psychology
- c) personality psychology
- d) cognitive psychology
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
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108) The subfield of psychology that examines mental processes such as thinking, remembering, and learning is known as
- a) clinical psychology.
- b) cognitive psychology.
- c) personality psychology.
- d) social psychology.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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109) A researcher who examines how the level of altruism in parents influences the level of altruism in their children is probably working in the subfield of biology known as
- a) social neuroscience.
- b) behavioural genetics.
- c) evolutionary psychology.
- d) behavioural biology.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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110) Social psychologists study the groups’ influence on the individual; a focus which is shared with the discipline of
- a) anthropology.
- b) economics.
- c) biology.
- d) sociology.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
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111) Which subfield of psychology examines how biological factors influence the survival of certain selected behaviours over time?
- a) cognitive psychology
- b) evolutionary psychology
- c) behaviourism
- d) social neuroscience
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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112) A researcher interested in how neural processes influence attitudes and behaviours works within the subfield of
- a) social neuroscience.
- b) evolutionary psychology.
- c) cognitive psychology.
- d) behavioural genetics.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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113) Social psychologists who are interested in brain activity and experiences in the social world are working within the subfield of
- a) behavioural genetics.
- b) behavioural biology.
- c) evolutionary neuroscience.
- d) social neuroscience.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
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114) The discipline of _______ examines the concept of culture and the role of culture on people’s attitudes and behaviour.
- a) anthropology
- b) economics
- c) geography
- d) sociology
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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115) Social psychologists’ interest in the impact of culture on people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, is a focus shared with the discipline of
- a) economics.
- b) anthropology.
- c) biology.
- d) sociology.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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116) The application of social, cognitive, and emotional biases to explain how people make economic decisions is represented in the field of
- a) behavioural neuroscience.
- b) behavioural genetics.
- c) behavioural economics.
- d) behavioural evolution.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
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117) Daniel Kahneman and Richard Thaler were awarded prizes in 2002 and 2017, respectively, for their contributions to the field of
- a) social neuroscience
- b) behavioural economics
- c) cultural psychology
- d) neuropsychology
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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118) ___________ focus on the role of individual differences in explaining how people feel and behave in distinct ways.
- a) Biologists
- b) Personality psychologists
- c) Cognitive psychologists
- d) Gestalt psychologists
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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119) A personality psychologist is to ___________ as a social psychologist is to _______________.
- a) internal traits; situational factors
- b) behaviourism; the fundamental attribution error
- c) individual differences; internal traits
- d) situational factors; internal traits
Answer: a
Difficulty: Hard
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120) A research question such as “Do people who attend church regularly have higher self-esteem?” would most likely be asked by a
- a) church leader.
- b) social psychologist.
- c) cognitive psychologist.
- d) personality psychologist.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Hard
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121) ________________ focuses on diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- a) Personality psychology
- b) Sociology
- c) Clinical psychology
- d) Cognitive psychology
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
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122) Which of the following individuals would be most likely to study thinking and memory?
- a) Dr. Rashid, a clinical psychologist
- b) Dr. Abraham, a cognitive psychologist
- c) Dr. Patel, a behaviourist
- d) Dr. Smith, a biologist
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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123) How do social psychologists differ from sociologists?
- a) Social psychologists study behaviour in groups while sociologists do not.
- b) Social psychologists study the effect of the group in general while sociologists study the influence of the group on the individual.
- c) Social psychologists focus on immediate, specific variables while sociologists focus on group-level variables.
- d) None of these.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Hard
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124) The field of _____________ examines the structure, function, growth, origin and evolution of living things.
- a) personality psychology.
- b) anthropology.
- c) biology.
- d) economics.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
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125) When a sibling or parent suddenly collapses, we are much more likely to help than when a cousin or grandparent collapses. This finding can be explained by
- a) Gestalt psychology.
- b) evolutionary psychology.
- c) anthropology.
- d) social neuroscience.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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126) ______________ is the study of how social factors influence brain activity and how brain activity influences attitudes and behaviours.
- a) Sociology
- b) Social neuroscience
- c) Economics
- d) Clinical psychology
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
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127) What techniques do social neuroscientists use to study the interaction between neural processes and peoples’ attitudes and behaviours?
- a) X-Rays and PET scans
- b) X-Rays and CAT scans
- c) PET scans and fMRI
- d) CAT scans and fMRI
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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128) Mary’s social psychology research examines the role of culture in a person’s exercise habits. Her project might also be of interest to a(n)
- a) sociologist.
- b) anthropologist.
- c) social neuroscientist.
- d) economist.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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129) In graduate school, Charles is conducting research on why people make choices that do not maximize their well-being. What field is Charles most likely working in?
- a) economics
- b) clinical psychology
- c) anthropology
- d) personality psychology
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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130) The study of how social, emotional, and cognitive biases affect how people make economic decisions is called
- a) behavioural economics.
- b) social economics.
- c) social neuroscience.
- d) behavioural genetics.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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Question type: Text Entry
131) The _______ _______ perspective focuses on how people think about themselves and make judgments and decisions about the world.
Answer: social cognitive
Difficulty: Medium
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132) _______ _______ is a subfield of social psychology which examines how factors in the social world influence activity in the brain, as well as how neural processes influence attitudes and behaviours.
Answer: Social neuroscience
Difficulty: Easy
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133) _______ _______ is a subfield of economics which applies research on social, cognitive, and emotional biases to understand how people make economic decisions.
Answer: Behavioural economics
Difficulty: Easy
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Question type: Multiple Choice
134) An emphasis on personal qualities as opposed to group memberships most likely represents a(n)
- a) Eastern country.
- b) collectivist culture.
- c) individualistic culture.
- d) interdependent culture.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective 1: How social psychology applies across cultures and subcultures.
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135) Individualistic societies place a high value on
- a) independence, self-reliance, and autonomy
- b) justice, consistency, and independence
- c) social status, independence, and power
- d) reciprocity, authority, and conformity
Answer: a
Difficulty: Hard
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136) Which of the following is not one of the Basic Human Values identified by Shalom Schwartz (2012):
- a) Tradition
- b) Benevolence
- c) Universalism
- d) Transcendentalism
Answer: d
Difficulty: Hard
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137) A culture which views behaviours emerging from individuals’ unique attributes is probably a(n)
- a) collectivistic culture.
- b) individualistic culture.
- c) interdependent culture.
- d) Eastern country.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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138) In a collectivist culture, all of the following values are emphasized, except
- a) personal identity.
- b) harmony.
- c) cooperation.
- d) interdependence.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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139) In an individualistic culture, all of the following values are emphasized, except
- a) self-reliance.
- b) autonomy.
- c) independence.
- d) social identity.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective 1: How social psychology applies across cultures and subcultures.
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140) The perspective that describes behaviours in part by social and/or cultural context is known as
- a) socio-cultural.
- b) anthropological.
- c) behavioural culture.
- d) behavioural social.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
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141) “Be all you can be” would be an adage probably found in a(n)
- a) individualistic culture.
- b) interdependent culture.
- c) Eastern country.
- d) collectivist culture.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Hard
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142) A culture which view behaviours focusing on the group is probably a(n)
- a) individualistic culture.
- b) independent culture.
- c) collectivist culture.
- d) Western country.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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143) The needs of the group are more important than those of the individual in a(n)
- a) independent culture.
- b) collectivist culture.
- c) Western country.
- d) individualistic culture.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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144) An advertisement that proclaims “A leader among leaders” most likely represents a(n)
- a) interdependent culture.
- b) Eastern country.
- c) collectivist country.
- d) individualistic culture.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Hard
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145) An advertisement that proclaims “Your business success – Harmony” most likely represents a(n)
- a) Western country.
- b) individualistic culture.
- c) independent culture.
- d) collectivist culture.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Hard
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146) An emphasis on group memberships as opposed to personal qualities most likely represents a(n)
- a) collectivist culture.
- b) Western country.
- c) individualistic culture.
- d) independent culture.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
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147) Jordan’s friend got into a car accident. Jordan assumes it happened because her friend is a bad driver, not because the roads were slippery that day. Jordan is experiencing
- a) a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- b) self-presentation.
- c) self-perception.
- d) the fundamental attribution error.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective 1: How social psychology applies across cultures
and subcultures.
Learning Objective 1: How social psychology applies across cultures and subcultures.
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148) According to cross-cultural research, in which type of culture are people more likely to make the fundamental attribution error?
- a) a culture emphasizing group memberships
- b) a culture which stresses interdependence
- c) a collectivist culture
- d) an individualistic culture
Answer: d
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective 1: How social psychology applies across cultures and subcultures.
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149) All of the following are examples of subcultures that may be studied by social psychologists, except
- a) West coast and East coast.
- b) Muslim and Christian.
- c) college students and non-high school graduates.
- d) individualistic and collectivist.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
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150) Tre believes that a person’s race, gender, and nationality all impact how that person will behave in various situations. Tre most strongly fits with which perspective?
- a) the behavioural genetics perspective
- b) behaviourism
- c) the sociocultural perspective
- d) the social cognitive perspective
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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151) When asked to describe herself, MaryAnn says that she is conscientious, thoughtful, and ambitious. Lorrie, on the other hand, describes herself as a mother, a member of a local softball team, and a sister. Which of the following statements is true about MaryAnn and Lorrie?
- a) They both seem to be strongly individualistic.
- b) They both seem to be strongly collectivistic.
- c) MaryAnn seems to be collectivistic while Lorrie seems to be individualistic.
- d) MaryAnn seems to be individualistic while Lorrie seems to be collectivistic.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
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152) All of the following are classic individualistic ideals except
- a) Be unique.
- b) Occupy one’s proper place.
- c) Promote own goals.
- d) Be direct.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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153) What can be concluded about how culture affects views of attractiveness?
- a) Culture does not affect views of attractiveness in any way.
- b) Culture affects both the personality traits and physical traits that are considered attractive.
- c) Culture affects what personality traits are considered attractive, but not what physical traits are considered attractive.
- d) Culture affects what physical traits are considered attractive, but not what personality traits are considered attractive.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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154) What can be concluded about how culture impacts the fundamental attribution error?
- a) The fundamental attribution error only occurs in the United States.
- b) In many collectivistic cultures, the fundamental attribution error does not occur.
- c) In most individualistic cultures, the fundamental attribution error does not occur.
- d) The fundamental attribution error is universal.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Hard
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155) When Canadian children of European and Chinese descent were asked about their early childhood memories, researchers found that
- a) all the children made the fundamental attribution error.
- b) the children of European descent had most memories involving a group.
- c) the children of Chinese descent had most memories involving a group.
- d) the children of European descent tended to make the fundamental attribution error.
Answer: c
Difficulty: Hard
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156) The perspective which describes people’s behaviour and mental processes as shaped in part by their social and/or cultural contact, including race, gender, and nationality is known as the
- a) behaviourist perspective.
- b) humanistic perspective.
- c) social cognitive perspective.
- d) sociocultural perspective.
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
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157) Considering the cultural influence on personal space and how that impacts on behaviour can be considered through the lens of the
- a) social cognitive perspective.
- b) sociocultural perspective.
- c) behaviourist perspective.
- d) humanistic perspective.
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
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158) According to Berger and Luckmann (1966), “What is real to a Tibetan monk may not be real to an American businessman”. This statement is an example of
- a) the social constructionist perspective.
- b) the subcultural critique.
- c) the sociocultural perspective.
- d) mainstream social psychology.
Answer: a
Difficulty: Hard
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159) Studies on cultural variability demonstrate that
- a) individualistic societies have more cultural variability
- b) collectivistic societies have more cultural variability
- c) there are differences within cultures
- d) there are no differences within cultures
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
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160) Which of the following pairs is not a factor present in the self-construal scale
- a) Difference vs. Similarity
- b) Self-containment vs. Connection to others
- c) Self-direction vs. Receptiveness to influence
- d) Conformity vs. Authority
Answer: d
Difficulty: Hard
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161) A study by Vignoles et al. (2016) found that both ___________ and _________ influenced characteristics of self.
- a) socioeconomic development; religious heritage
- b) age; gender
- c) religious heritage; gender
- d) socioeconomic development; age
Answer: a
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective 1: How social psychology applies across cultures and subcultures.
Section Reference 1: How Does Social Psychology Apply across Cultures and Subcultures?
162) Aguinaldo’s (2008) qualitative study on oppression and how the health of gay men is socially constructed found that
- a) gay oppression has a strong cultural component
- b) gay oppression is an established social phenomenon
- c) gay oppression has yet to be treated as a social phenomenon
- d) gay oppression is linked to higher levels of depression in the general population
Answer: c
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective 1: How social psychology applies across cultures and subcultures.
Section Reference 1: How Does Social Psychology Apply across Cultures and Subcultures?
163) _______________ is an approach that allows for a better understanding of the ways ideas are created, and what narratives and accounts are prioritized.
- a) social constructionism
- b) the scientific method
- c) behavioural economics
- d) social neuroscience
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective 1: How social psychology applies across cultures and subcultures.
Section Reference 1: How Does Social Psychology Apply across Cultures and Subcultures?
Question type: Text Entry
164) The perspective which describes people’s behaviour and mental processes as shaped in part by their social and/or cultural context including race, gender, and nationality is known as _______ _______.
Answer: socio-cultural perspective
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective 1: How social psychology applies across cultures and subcultures.
Section Reference 1: How Does Social Psychology Apply across Cultures and Subcultures?
Question type: Essay
165) What role does social psychology play within the subfields of personality psychology, clinical psychology and cognitive psychology? Give an example of the type of question that each area may study.
Answer:
