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  • 1. 

       4. Social exclusion and rejection are said to “hurt.” Which of the following is TRUE about this statement? 

    • A.

      A. Only the anterior singulate area was shown to be activated.

    • B.

      B. People cannot regulate the pain of ostracism.

    • C.

      C. This is a figure of speech, and there is no reason to believe it actually hurts.

    • D.

      . None of the above is true.

    Correct Answer
    D. . None of the above is true.
  • 2. 

    Drdfhh

    • A.

      Sas

    • B.

      Asas

    Correct Answer
    A. Sas
  • 3. 

    When people are involved in a systematic processing of information, they need   

    • A.

      A. enough cognitive resources to process the information systematically

    • B.

      B. enough motivation to process the information systematically

    • C.

      C. only a or b

    • D.

      D. both a and b

    Correct Answer
    D. D. both a and b
  • 4. 

    Impression cycles refer to 

    • A.

      People’s tendency to make circular arguments about their impressions about others.

    • B.

      People’s circle of friends within which they share impressions about other people.

    • C.

      The cycles in which people’s impressions change over time.

    • D.

      none of the above.

    Correct Answer
    D. none of the above.
  • 5. 

     In order to test a hypothesis that the presence of others inhibits a person from intervening in an emergency situation, a fake smoke was introduced in a room where one or more unsuspecting experimental participants thought they were involved in a different experiment. The results showed that people were less likely to report the smoke when they were with others than when they were alone.

    • A.

      Athe results were consistent with the hypothesis, but the hypothesis needs to be tested in other emergency situations as well

    • B.

      Bthe results were consistent with the hypothesis, but there is an alternative explanation of the results

    • C.

      . both a and b

    • D.

      Neither a nor b

    Correct Answer
    C. . both a and b
  • 6. 

     Which of the following is TRUE about people’s judgments about personalities and abilities based on photos of others’ faces

    • A.

      Their judgments after 100 ms are often as accurate as their considered judgments.

    • B.

      Judgments about the personality of people after viewing their pictures for one second were very different from snap judgments after viewing the same pictures for 100 ms.

    • C.

      A political candidate who is evaluated to be more competent is more likely to win in a US election.

    • D.

      All of the above are true

    Correct Answer
    A. Their judgments after 100 ms are often as accurate as their considered judgments.
  • 7. 

    According to Fiedler’s contingency theory of leadership, which of the following is TRUE?   

    • A.

      A. A leader can be both task oriented and socioemotionally oriented.

    • B.

      One’s leadership style is a stable personality trait.

    • C.

      Situational control is determined by a leader’s leadership style.

    • D.

      Task performance depends only on a leader’s leadership style

    Correct Answer
    B. One’s leadership style is a stable personality trait.
  • 8. 

    Which of the following is FALSE about accessibility? 

    • A.

      The accessibility of a concept is stable, and is not affected by situations.

    • B.

      The accessibility of a concept increases when it is used recently.

    • C.

      People use accessible concepts to interpret ambiguous information

    • D.

      Accessible concepts are unlikely to affect the interpretation of unambiguous information.

    Correct Answer
    A. The accessibility of a concept is stable, and is not affected by situations.
  • 9. 

     Suppose you read an essay that criticizes policies that reduce green house gas emissions, You are told that the essay writer was actually told by his lecturer to write the anti-environment essay. Which of the following is TRUE? 

    • A.

      . According to Jones and Davis’s correspondent inference theory, you should infer that the essay writer has anti-environmental attitudes.

    • B.

      According to Jones and Davis’s correspondent inference theory, you should not infer that the essay writer has anti-environmental attitudes.

    • C.

      . According to Jones and Harris’s experiment, you are likely to infer that the essay writer has anti-environmental attitudes.

    • D.

      According to Jones and Harris’s experiment, you are likely to say it is difficult to infer the essay writer’s true attitudes.

    Correct Answer
    C. . According to Jones and Harris’s experiment, you are likely to infer that the essay writer has anti-environmental attitudes.
  • 10. 

    Which of the following is TRUE about a correspondence bias (or fundamental attribution error)? 

    • A.

      It is a bias in people’s judgments about other’s intelligence.

    • B.

      It is a universal human bias based on the limitation of human rationality.

    • C.

      People from some cultural backgrounds show a greater extent of this bias than others.

    • D.

      It is unaffected by people’s stereotypes.

    Correct Answer
    C. People from some cultural backgrounds show a greater extent of this bias than others.
  • 11. 

     According to Solomon Asch’s theory and empirical research, 

    • A.

      People’s impressions about a person are structured and integrated, and not a simple list of attributes.

    • B.

      Nformation encountered earlier tends to have stronger effects on person impressions than information encountered later.

    • C.

      information about a person’s warmth and coldness is more central than his or her politeness and bluntness.

    • D.

      All of the above are true.

    Correct Answer
    D. All of the above are true.
  • 12. 

    2. According to the lecture, social factors are important for psychological processes because experiments have demonstrated that

    • A.

      A. people behave differently when even a minimal social relationship is present

    • B.

      B. people feel and behave differently when their social relationship is removed from them

    • C.

      C. both a and b

    • D.

      D. neither a nor b

    Correct Answer
    C. C. both a and b
  • 13. 

    Which of the following is TRUE about self-fulfilling prophecies?   

    • A.

      A. They refer to the process in which people’s impressions about a target person can generate the target person’s behaviour that is consistent with those impressions.

    • B.

      They refer to the cognitive process by which one’s true self is fulfilled by his or her behaviour.

    • C.

      They occur only when people have some insights about their true self.

    • D.

      They occur in dating situations, but do not in educational settings.

    Correct Answer
    A. A. They refer to the process in which people’s impressions about a target person can generate the target person’s behaviour that is consistent with those impressions.
  • 14. 

    According to William James,

    • A.

      Me and I are physically different aspects of oneself.

    • B.

      Physical self is part of Me.

    • C.

      Me is a purely physical entity and does not have any social origin.

    • D.

      All of the above are true.

    Correct Answer
    B. Physical self is part of Me.
  • 15. 

    . Which of the following is FALSE about the concept of looking glass self?   

    • A.

      It was developed by Charles Horton Cooley.

    • B.

      It implies that humans would not have a sense of oneself unless we grow up with other humans.

    • C.

      It implies that one’s self-presentation (i.e., activity to present oneself as having a certain characteristic) can affect one’s sense and perception of oneself when one believes that the self-presentation is believed by others.

    • D.

      It asserts the importance of mirrors in the formation of the social side of self-concept.

    Correct Answer
    D. It asserts the importance of mirrors in the formation of the social side of self-concept.
  • 16. 

     Which of the following is TRUE about self-awareness and self-recognition?   

    • A.

      Human babies have the ability to be aware of oneself when they are born.

    • B.

      The ability to recognise the image of oneself in a mirror as a reflection of oneself (mirror self-recognition) develops in humans by about 2 years of age.

    • C.

      The ability for mirror self-recognition has been observed only among primates in captivity and humans.

    • D.

      None of the above is true.

    Correct Answer
    B. The ability to recognise the image of oneself in a mirror as a reflection of oneself (mirror self-recognition) develops in humans by about 2 years of age.
  • 17. 

    Which of the following is FALSE about culture and self? 

    • A.

      The notion of looking glass self suggests that self-concepts should differ between societies where people have different types of social interaction patterns.

    • B.

      Australians are more likely to have independent self-construal than Americans.

    • C.

      People with independent self-construal are more likely to try to distinguish themselves from others in a positive light.

    • D.

      East Asians with greater exposure to Western cultures tend to report higher levels of self-esteem.

    Correct Answer
    B. Australians are more likely to have independent self-construal than Americans.
  • 18. 

      3. In a cyberball experiment, a participant is induced to feel he or she belongs in a group by being initially included in a cyber-version of a ball tossing game. When the participant is excluded from the group, he or she reports lower levels of ______ than when not excluded from the group. 

    • A.

      Belonging

    • B.

      control

    • C.

      Self-esteem

    • D.

      All of the above

    Correct Answer
    D. All of the above
  • 19. 

       9. Which of the following is TRUE about people’s impressions about a target person?

    • A.

      Impressions are formed on the basis of the cues associated with the target person.

    • B.

      When cues are ambiguous, people form random impressions.

    • C.

      Even when cues are unambiguous, people often try not to form impressions about other people.

    • D.

      All of the above are true.

    Correct Answer
    A. Impressions are formed on the basis of the cues associated with the target person.
  • 20. 

     Gilbert, Pelham, and Krull (1988) asked people to watch a videotape of a woman speaking about something anxiously. Although they could not hear what the woman was talking about, they were told that the topic of her speech was either anxiety-provoking or fairly neutral. Half of the participants just watched the video, but the other half did so while remembering a list of topics (high cognitive load). Which of the following is FALSE about this study?

    • A.

      people under high cognitive load rated the woman as anxious (i.e., dispositional attribution) regardless of the purported topic of her speech.

    • B.

      People without cognitive load rated the woman as anxious only when she was said to be talking about a neutral topic.

    • C.

      Their finding supported the idea that a dispositional attribution is automatic.

    • D.

      Heir finding supported the idea that a correction process is automatic.

    Correct Answer
    D. Heir finding supported the idea that a correction process is automatic.
  • 21. 

    Which of the following is TRUE? 

    • A.

      The self is the deep underlying true sense of identity that is unlikely to be shaped by society.

    • B.

      The sense of one’s self is concerned with personal identity.

    • C.

      Social identity is a superficial aspect of one’s self consciousness.

    • D.

      All of the above are false.

    Correct Answer
    B. The sense of one’s self is concerned with personal identity.
  • 22. 

     Which of the following is THE BEST EXAMPLE of what social psychologists call attitudes?

    • A.

      My politics are Marxist.

    • B.

      I don’t like custard.

    • C.

      I am angry.

    • D.

      . I think the world is flat

    Correct Answer
    B. I don’t like custard.
  • 23. 

    Which of the following is FALSE about Kelley’s covariation theory of attribution?   

    • A.

      The covariation principle states that, “an effect is attributed to a condition that is present when the effect is present, and absent when the effect is absent.”

    • B.

      Consistency indicates the extent to which the person usually behaves in the way he/she is currently behaving.

    • C.

      Distinctiveness indicates the extent to which others in the same situation behave in the same way.

    • D.

      Low consensus, high consistency, and low distinctiveness results in dispositional attribution.

    Correct Answer
    C. Distinctiveness indicates the extent to which others in the same situation behave in the same way.
  • 24. 

    According to the theory of reasoned action, which of the following BEST predicts people’s behaviour to go to a Rock concert in the city on this Saturday? 

    • A.

      Attitudes toward Rock music

    • B.

      . attitudes toward the Rock band playing at the concert on this Saturday

    • C.

      Attitudes toward going to the concert in the city on this Saturday

    • D.

      attitudes toward going to the concert in the city on this Saturday by public transport

    Correct Answer
    D. attitudes toward going to the concert in the city on this Saturday by public transport
  • 25. 

    Which of the following is TRUE about attitude-behaviour consistency? 

    • A.

      Attitudes tend to predict consistent behaviour when attitudes are accessible.

    • B.

      Attitude accessibility affects behaviour when people are using superficial processes.

    • C.

      Intention predicts behaviour when people are using systematic processes.

    • D.

      All of the above are true.

    Correct Answer
    D. All of the above are true.
  • 26. 

    According to the theories of reasoned action and planned behaviour, which of the following is FALSE? 

    • A.

      Both theories suggest that behaviour is influenced by people’s intention to perform the behaviour.

    • B.

      Both theories suggest that intention is influenced by attitudes and subjective norm.

    • C.

      Both theories suggest that attitudes are determined by behavioural beliefs about the consequences of the behaviour (and their evaluations).

    • D.

      Theory of reasoned action includes perceived behavioural control as its important component whereas the theory of planned behaviour does not.

    Correct Answer
    D. Theory of reasoned action includes perceived behavioural control as its important component whereas the theory of planned behaviour does not.
  • 27. 

    . When John says, “I dislike X because it makes me feel bad about myself,” which of the following is TRUE? 

    • A.

      This is an example of a social identity.

    • B.

      John’s attitude toward X is serving a self-esteem maintenance function.

    • C.

      This is a structural feature of John’s attitudes.

    • D.

      John is clearly a utilitarian who is unconcerned about social norms.

    Correct Answer
    B. John’s attitude toward X is serving a self-esteem maintenance function.
  • 28. 

    Which of the following is TRUE about attitude change? 

    • A.

      When people are forced to perform a behaviour non-voluntarily, their attitudes are likely to change.

    • B.

      When people are induced to perform a behaviour voluntarily in the absence of their prior attitudes, attitudes are unlikely to form, and they would go without attitudes

    • C.

      Some form of emotional engagement is necessary for attitudes to change.

    • D.

      None of the above is true.

    Correct Answer
    D. None of the above is true.
  • 29. 

    According to the textbook, bystander intervention is a result of a decision making process involving five steps. Which of the following is FALSE? 

    • A.

      Emotion is an important factor in this decision making process.

    • B.

      . If a bystander answers no to any of the steps, he/she will not help.

    • C.

      One of the questions that a bystander has to answer is whether it is his/her responsibility to help.

    • D.

      This model can explain why bystanders often fail to provide help.

    Correct Answer
    A. Emotion is an important factor in this decision making process.
  • 30. 

    30. Which of the following is TRUE about cognitive dissonance theory? 

    • A.

      Cognitive dissonance is a negative state, which motivates us to reduce it.

    • B.

      My belief that smoking causes cancer and my knowledge of my behaviour that I smoke one packet of cigarettes a day are consonant with each other.

    • C.

      Cognitive dissonance is less likely to be felt in modern societies because modern music uses discords more.

    • D.

      All strategies to reduce cognitive dissonance are irrational.

    Correct Answer
    A. Cognitive dissonance is a negative state, which motivates us to reduce it.
  • 31. 

     La Piere’s famous study of attitudes and behaviour towards Chinese people (he observed people’s behaviour in hotels, motor camps, and so on) 

    • A.

      Showed how people go about concocting reasons for their actions.

    • B.

      Was a landmark study because it measured behavioural intentions.

    • C.

      was a poorly designed study because La Piere was not Chinese.

    • D.

      Was a good example of a general measure of attitude failing to predict a specific behaviour.

    Correct Answer
    D. Was a good example of a general measure of attitude failing to predict a specific behaviour.
  • 32. 

     An attitude is accessible when it readily comes to mind. Which of the following conditions would produce accessible attitudes? 

    • A.

      Attitudes are formed on the basis of direct experience with the attitude object.

    • B.

      Attitudes are learned when a person is very young

    • C.

      Attitudes are suppressed and kept unconscious.

    • D.

      None of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Attitudes are formed on the basis of direct experience with the attitude object.
  • 33. 

    According to the lecture, which of the following is TRUE about attitude-behaviour relationships? 

    • A.

      When people have the ability to think carefully about how to behave and are motivated to think carefully, accessible attitudes should predict a behaviour.

    • B.

      Attitudes rarely predict behaviour and therefore generally regarded as a useless concept in social psychology.

    • C.

      Attitudes and behaviour influence each other some of the time, and form a positive feedback loop.

    • D.

      Attitudes and behaviour are separate and parallel processes, which do not influence each other.

    Correct Answer
    C. Attitudes and behaviour influence each other some of the time, and form a positive feedback loop.
  • 34. 

    In individual-level strategies for attitude change, a person whose attitudes you wish to influence is induced to behave in a way that is congruent with the attitude you wish him or her to have. Which of the following is TRUE about these strategies?

    • A.

      Attitudes are likely to change when the behaviour is forced, and is performed involuntarily

    • B.

      Attitudes may change when the existing attitudes are already congruent with the behaviour and the behaviour is performed voluntarily.

    • C.

      Attitudes are unlikely to change if the induced behaviour is incongruent with the existing attitudes.

    • D.

      None of the above is TRUE

    Correct Answer
    B. Attitudes may change when the existing attitudes are already congruent with the behaviour and the behaviour is performed voluntarily.
  • 35. 

    Festinger and Carlsmith conducted an empirical test of cognitive dissonance theory. After establishing a negative attitude to a boring experiment, they induced their participants to perform a counter-attitudinal behaviour voluntarily. For this purpose, the participants were offered a large amount of reward ($20) or a small amount of reward ($1). Which of the following is TRUE about this experiment?

    • A.

      Cognitive dissonance should not occur under either condition.

    • B.

      Cognitive dissonance should be greater in the $20 condition than in the $1 condition.

    • C.

      A greater attitude change was observed in the $1 condition than in the $20 condition.

    • D.

      An attitude change occurred when the participants performed the counter-attitudinal behaviour involuntarily

    Correct Answer
    C. A greater attitude change was observed in the $1 condition than in the $20 condition.
  • 36. 

    Which of the following is FALSE about Asch’s conformity studies? 

    • A.

      A naïve participant was asked to make a judgment about line lengths after some confederates made judgments in public.

    • B.

      Approximately 25% of the participants never conformed.

    • C.

      The rate of conformity kept rising as the number of confederates who made wrong judgments increased up to six.

    • D.

      . Even when a number of confederates gave an erroneous judgment, if there was one person who gave the right judgment, this reduced the rate of conformity.

    Correct Answer
    C. The rate of conformity kept rising as the number of confederates who made wrong judgments increased up to six.
  • 37. 

    Elaboration likelihood model suggests that   

    • A.

      A. when people are busy doing other things, they tend to process TV commercials using their central route to persuasion.

    • B.

      when people are going through a peripheral route to persuasion, resultant attitudes are likely to be more enduring and more likely to predict their behaviour than when they are going through a central route.

    • C.

      when people have lots of cognitive resources, but unwilling to process information deeply, they tend to be persuaded by peripheral cues such as source attractiveness.

    • D.

      All of the above are true.

    Correct Answer
    C. when people have lots of cognitive resources, but unwilling to process information deeply, they tend to be persuaded by peripheral cues such as source attractiveness.
  • 38. 

     When David says, “I don’t trust what Donald says because he might be motivated to mislead me,” and decides to disregard Donald’s persuasive message, which of the following is TRUE? 

    • A.

      David is citing a reporting bias.

    • B.

      . David is referring to a knowledge bias

    • C.

      David is revealing his nonconscious bias.

    • D.

      . David is showing a fundamental attribution error.

    Correct Answer
    A. David is citing a reporting bias.
  • 39. 

     A statement, “People should not drink and drive,” is: 

    • A.

      A taken-for-granted background norm.

    • B.

      An injunctive norm

    • C.

      a descriptive norm

    • D.

      . a shared frame of reference.

    Correct Answer
    B. An injunctive norm
  • 40. 

     Which of the following is TRUE about people’s impressions about others?

    • A.

      a. The behaviours of those others are rarely taken into consideration when forming impressions

    • B.

      People’s impressions are almost always biased.

    • C.

      People’s impressions about others influence their behaviour towards those others.

    • D.

      Once impressions are formed, they are impossible to change.

    Correct Answer
    C. People’s impressions about others influence their behaviour towards those others.
  • 41. 

    Which of the following is TRUE about social networks? 

    • A.

      Highly centralised networks mean that everyone occupies a central position.

    • B.

      Those who occupy more central positions tend to act as informal leaders in the network.

    • C.

      Centralization and central positions mean the same thing.

    • D.

      People tend to communicate information that is inconsistent with stereotypes that are shared among the people in a social network.

    Correct Answer
    B. Those who occupy more central positions tend to act as informal leaders in the network.
  • 42. 

    Which of the following is TRUE?

    • A.

      According to Moscovici, an opinion minority should NOT use the same tactic as an opinion majority to influence others

    • B.

      The blue-green experiment showed that an opinion minority that expressed their opinion consistently could influence a majority’s opinion.

    • C.

      Groupthink can be reduced by establishing a norm that permits group members to voice criticisms.

    • D.

      . All of the above are TRUE.

    Correct Answer
    D. . All of the above are TRUE.
  • 43. 

    Which of the following functions is MOST likely to be served by large-scale groups defined in terms of social categories such as nations? 

    • A.

      task performance function

    • B.

      Socioemotional function

    • C.

      social identity function

    • D.

      Knowledge function

    Correct Answer
    C. social identity function
  • 44. 

     Which of the following is FALSE about the Asch-type conformity situation? 

    • A.

      Japanese students showed a higher conformity rate when the pressure came from other students in the same sports club.

    • B.

      . Korean advertisements emphasize conformity more than American advertisements

    • C.

      The conformity rate is higher in individualist cultures than in collectivist cultures.

    • D.

      University students showed a lower level of conformity than non-students.

    Correct Answer
    C. The conformity rate is higher in individualist cultures than in collectivist cultures.
  • 45. 

    According to Steiner’s model of group performance, which of the following is FALSE? 

    • A.

      A group can create synergies among its members, and perform better than the best of its members.

    • B.

      Group performance can never exceed the potential set by group members.

    • C.

      Group may perform worse than its potential due to coordination losses.

    • D.

      There is an element of social loafing in motivation losses in group settings.

    Correct Answer
    A. A group can create synergies among its members, and perform better than the best of its members.
  • 46. 

    According to the social brain hypothesis (e.g., Dunbar), which of the following is FALSE?

    • A.

      Relative size of an individual person’s neo-cortex is associated with how sociable he or she is.

    • B.

      Among prim50ates, a species’ average relative neo-cortex size is associated with average size of groups in which the species tends to live.

    • C.

      The “natural” human group size is estimated to be approximately 150.

    • D.

      Group living acted as a selective pressure for larger relative neo-cortex size.

    Correct Answer
    A. Relative size of an individual person’s neo-cortex is associated with how sociable he or she is.
  • 47. 

    Which of the following is TRUE about group socialisation? 

    • A.

      People go through role transitions as they enter to, remain in, and exit from a group.

    • B.

      Depending on the phases of group socialisation, people’s levels of commitment to their group rise and fall.

    • C.

      Group socialisation is about how individuals are socialised into groups, and Tuckman’s model is about how task performing groups change over time.

    • D.

      All of the above are true

    Correct Answer
    D. All of the above are true
  • 48. 

    NOTHING

    • A.

      1111

    • B.

      1111

  • 49. 

    According to the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion, when people change attitudes due to strong arguments, compared to when they change attitudes because an attractive person sent them the persuasive message, the resultant attitudes 

    • A.

      Are more enduring.

    • B.

      are more resistant to change.

    • C.

      . show stronger attitude-behaviour relationships.

    • D.

      All of the above are TRUE.

    Correct Answer
    D. All of the above are TRUE.
  • 50. 

    Which of the following is FALSE about the Robbers Cave Experiment?   

    • A.

      A. The boys who participated in the experiment had some psychological problems before they participated in the experiment.

    • B.

      There were incidents of intergroup conflict between the Eagles and the Rattlers.

    • C.

      Boys were more likely to choose their ingroup members as friends than outgroup members.

    • D.

      Cooperation between the groups to work towards a goal that cannot be achieved by each group alone reduced intergroup conflict.

    Correct Answer
    A. A. The boys who participated in the experiment had some psychological problems before they participated in the experiment.

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