Social Psychology Quizzes & Trivia

Social psychology is basically described as the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Test out how much you got to understand...

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 12177 | Last updated: Oct 9, 2020

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In-group bias is the:

Tendency to favor one's group and see this group as correct

Tendency to see other members of a group as similar

Tendency to perform better when others are watching

Tendency to perform worse when others are watching

Tendency to conform to the social harmony of a group

Social Psychology Ultimate Exam! Quiz

Questions: 60 | Attempts: 837 | Last updated: Jun 22, 2020

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_____ is a procedure for gaining compliance by first securing compliance with a small request, then escalating to a larger one.

The compliance technique

The low-ball technique

The conformity technique

The door-in-the-face technique allows an individual to gain compliance by first securing compliance with a small request, then escalating to a larger one.

The foot-in-the-door technique

What Do You Know About Fundamental Attribution Error?

What Do You Know About Fundamental Attribution Error? One person can be viewed as having different characteristics, but people tend to judge them based on how they behave other than what makes them behave in that particular way....

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 314 | Last updated: Oct 7, 2019

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What is the basic concept/idea behind Fundamental Attribution Error?

People tend to over estimate/attribute too much to dispositional factors and underestimate situational factors

People tend to over estimate situational factors and underestimate dispostional factors

People tend to attribute their actions to factors, unmeasurable

There is no theory

Psyc 342 : Social Psychology Questions! Trivia Quiz

PSYC 342 : Social Psychology Questions! Trivia Quiz

Below are some PSYC 342: social psychology questions! Human being's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, and implied presence of others around them. Social psychology...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 722 | Last updated: Jun 17, 2020

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The research of Ivan Pavlov and Hermann Ebbinghaus is similar because of both researchers.

Were using empirical methods to investigate reflexes

Were using empirical methods to study laws of associations

Extended Descartes’ concept of dualism

Were concerned with the study of the mind, not with physiological mechanisms.\x00

Social Psychology Trivia Questions & Answers

Social Psychology

Questions: 12 | Attempts: 1498 | Last updated: Oct 26, 2017

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You would probably be least likely to commit the fundemental attribution error in explaining why:

You failed a college test

A fellow classmate was late for class

Your professor gave a boring lecture

The college administration decided to raise next year's tuition cost

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Questions: 64 | Attempts: 147 | Last updated: Jun 22, 2020

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What is the focus of social psychology?

How groups define and shape society.

The actions of small groups of individuals.

The behavior and thoughts of individuals.

The effects that society has on group behaviors.

Social Psychology Final Exam

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Covering topics based on social psychology

Questions: 3 | Attempts: 126 | Last updated: Dec 29, 2016

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As the number of bystanders who are present at the scene of an emergency increases, the probability that any bystander will help_____ and the length of time that passes before help occurs

Decreases; increases

Increases; increases

Decreases; decreases

Increases; decreases

The Social Psychology Mini Quiz

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Questions: 3 | Attempts: 74 | Last updated: Jan 10, 2013

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What is the definition of the belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group stand for?

Discrimination

Out-group bias.

Ethnocentrism.

Racism.

Social Psychology Quiz #2

Questions: 62 | Attempts: 63 | Last updated: Jan 21, 2013

Sample Question
Contemporary U.S. culture is characterized by a “marriage” story that compels people to:

Get married

Explain why they are not married

Both a and b

Neither a or b

Quiz: Social Psychology Practice Test!

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 53 | Last updated: Jun 22, 2020

Sample Question
In-group bias is the

Tendency to favor one's group and see this group as correct

Tendency to see other members of a group as similar

Tendency to perform better when others are watching

Tendency to perform worse when others are watching

Tendency to conform to the social harmony of a group

Reciprocity Style

Based on https://www.lemonade.com/blog/psychology-givers-takers-matchers-2/

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 20 | Last updated: Feb 21, 2020

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You and a stranger will both receive some money. You have three choices about what you and the stranger receive, and you’ll never see or meet the stranger. Which option would you choose?

I get $8, and the stranger gets $4.

I get $5, and the stranger gets $7

I get $5, and the stranger gets $5

Social Psychology 2

Social psychology refers to the branch of psychology that deals with social interaction, not excluding its origins and effects on the individuals involved. Can you answer all the following questions in our second quiz on the...

Questions: 51 | Attempts: 17 | Last updated: Sep 27, 2017

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When you give an opinion that is contrary to your own beliefs, that is known as Counterattitudinal Advocasy. If we have sufficient ________ justificaiton we will not experience dissonance.

Internal

External

Social Psychology 101

Questions: 18 | Attempts: 10 | Last updated: Aug 16, 2016

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Why do people conform?

To be prosocial or antisocial

Only to fit in

Due to normative social influence and/or informational social influence

Only because other people know more about what is going on than they do

Social Psychology Quiz Questions And Answers

Social Psychology Quiz questions and answers

Questions: 74 | Attempts: 5 | Last updated: Oct 26, 2017

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_____________________: schemas that are often negative and are used to categorize complex groups of people.

Stereotypes

Prejudices

Fundamental attribution error

Cognitive dissonance