25 Questions on Social Psychology
1. Question: What is social psychology?
Answer: The study of the way that people relate to one another, influence each other and the way they think.
2. Question: People tend to explain behavior either by assuming it is part of a person's disposition or as a result of the situation. This explanation is called the _________________.
Answer: Attribution theory
3. Question: The frequent tendency to overestimate personality traits as being the main influence on behavior, while underestimating the influence of a given situation is called _______________________.
Answer: The fundamental attribution error
4. Question: Where would the fundamental attribution error be strongest?
a. In East Asian cultures
b. In tribal cultures
c. In Western cultures
d. In teenagers of any given culture.
Answer: C
5. Question: Our feelings, which come out of what we believe, and make us respond in a certain way to the object of our judgment are called ______________.
a. Attitudes
b. Judgments
c. Convictions
d. Predispositions
Answer: A
6. Question: Explain foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Answer: When a person agrees to a small favor or request, their tendency is to agree to agree to do something even bigger later. The smaller act makes the bigger one easier to agree to.
7. Question: A set of norms about particular positions we assume such as being married, starting a new job, etc. They tell us how we should behave in those positions and are called _____________.
a. Attitudes
b. Roles
c. Obligations
d. Responsibilities
Answer: B
8. Question: Leon Festinger proposed a theory, which explained that due to a feeling of discomfort for actions that are troubling, we might change our attitudes to fit our actions. This theory is called _____________________.
Answer: Cognitive dissonance theory
9. Question: People who tend to be most empathic to others and are liked by people, tend to
a. Unconscioulsy repeat most things the people around them say
b. Unconsciously mimic gestures and actions of the people they are around
c. Go out of their way to analyze what the people they speak to say
d. Put on a fake appearance of happiness to not bring people down.
Answer: B
10. Question: The adjustment of one's thinking and acting to match that of a group is called ________________.
a. Adaptation
b. Conformity
c. Personality camoflauge
d. Dissonance
Answer: B
11. Question: Which of the following factors is not likely to increase conformity?
a. The person is made to feel insecure and not confident of their answer
b. Person comes from a culture in which social standards are highly valued
c. Only one other person in the group has dissented
d. The group's status is one of appeal and power
Answer: C
12. Question: Explain normative social influence.
Answer: The influence, which comes from our attempts to avoid rejection or to fit in socially by getting approval.
13. Question: When we are willing to accept the opinions of other people concerning reality, we are being influenced by ____________________.
Answer: Informational social influence
14. Question: Stanley Milgram assigned volunteers to role or teacher, while confederates sat in a chair, attached to electric shocks. The teacher had to ask questions and administer electric shock to other person for wrong answers. What did this experiment show?
a. Most people are unwilling to cause pain to others, even if the other person is a stranger
b. Most people complied with the commands and felt little remorse
c. Most people agreed to continue experiment only if they assumed person was in perfect health and would not be negatively affected in the long run
d. Most people complied with the commands despite feeling stress and discomfort
Answer: D
15. Question: True or False. In Milgram's experiments, when subject complained of a heart condition, the 'teacher' was more sympathetic and felt more reluctant to administer shocks.
Answer: False.
16. Question: When such experiments were conducted in highly intellectual places such as a prestigious university, the people complied with commands to give shocks
a. Less often than other places
b. More often than other places
c. Same as anywhere else
d. Depended on whether person was a student at such university
Answer: B
17. Question: The occurence of performing better on fairly simple tasks, while someone else is present, is called _____________________.
Answer: Social facilitation
18. Question: True or false. Performance on high skill tasks is hindered by the presense of other people.
Answer: True
19. Question: A person is likely to exert less effort when doing a task as part of a group versus alone. This occurence is called _______________________.
Answer: Social loafing
20. Question: A person who seems to lose their self-restraint when in a group, and participate in something they might not usually, such as a food fight, is feeling riled up, but also invisible as a result of being in a group. This is called ___________________.
a. Deindividuation
b. Polarization
c. Dissociation
d. Loafing
Answer: A
21. Question: A person who is identifiable or alone, is ___________ likely to cause injury to others.
a. More
b. Less
c. Just as
d. Not at all
Answer: B
22. Question: As a result of discussion within a group on a topic agreed upon by the group ____________________ occurs, meaning that opinion is enhanced.
Answer: Group polarization
23. Question: In a high school where students are highly prejudice against a particular race, over time their prejudice is likely to
a. Lessen
b. Strengthen
c. Stay the same
d. Disappear
Answer: B
24. Question: Explain groupthink
Answer: The tendency, without strong opposition, to go ahead with group consesus in order to keep harmony, but ignoring realistic alternative
25. Question: True or False. A minority or individual almost never has the same power as a majority when it comes to making change happen.
Answer: False.
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