PYC3701 Social Psychology (2021 - Semester 1 and Semester 2 - Assignment 3)

PYC3701 – Social Psychology 2021 – Semester 1 and Semester 2 – Assignment 3 Question #1: Which of the following individuals is MOST likely to experience information overload? 1. A person who is singing in the shower. 2. A person who is eating dinner while watching television. 3. A person who is talking on a cell phone while driving a car. 4. A person who is dancing and talking at a party. Question #2 Simple rules for making complex decisions or drawing inferences are known as ... 1. heuristics 2. automaticity 3. anchoring and adjustment 4. schemas Question #3: During final week of the examination, Jonah tells his friend that he will be able to write four exam papers over the next few days. Jonah is shocked and upset when he is barely able to complete two of these four papers. Jonah’s behaviour is consistent with ... 1. counterfactual thinking 2. the pessimistic bias 3. the negative bias 4. the planning fallacy Question 4: The process we use to try and understand other people is known as ... 1. attribution 2. impression management 3. social perception 4. nonverbal communication Question 5: We might think that a waiter who flirts with a customer does so because he likes to flirt, however, if we notice that other waiters avoid flirting with that customer. This best represents the concept of low ... 1. noncommon effect 2. consensus 3. consistency 4. distinctiveness Question 6: Members of collectivistic cultures are more likely to recognise more of the situational determinants of behaviour than are members of individualistic cultures. As a result, members of collectivist societies are ... 1. somewhat less likely to make the fundamental attribution error 2. a great deal more likely to make the fundamental attribution error 3. unaware of the fundamental attribution error 4. somewhat more likely to make the fundamental attribution error Question 7: The personal identity ... 1. conceptualises the self as a member of particular social groups 2. allows us to attribute our successes to external causes 3. prevents us from recognizing most discrepancies between our behaviour and our attitudes 4. conceptualises the self as a unique individual Question 8: The personal-social identity continuum recognizes that we ... 1. see ourselves as being more consistent across situations than we really are 2. can see ourselves differently, depending on circumstances 3. are part of a number of different social groups 4. see ourselves primarily as individuals Question 9: When Karen was recently asked to describe herself to her classmates, she spoke about being a student and a member of her class. She pointed out similarities and differences between herself and her fellow students. Karen was primarily making ... comparisons. 1. individual 2. intragroup 3. intergroup 4. extragroup Question 10: Attitudes are ... 1. the mechanism we use to reduce dissonance 2. the mechanism we can use to protect ourselves from unwanted views of ourselves 3. the process by which we adjust or adapt our behaviour to particular circumstances 4. our evaluations or different aspects of the social world Question 11: According to the process of instrumental conditioning, behaviour will be displayed often by an individual if ... 1. it is reinforced 2. the individual sees a role model perform the action 3. it is ignored 4. it is preceded by a pleasant subliminal stimulus Question 12: Juan feels unsure about the correctness of his attitude about a new rule at his job. He may feel more correct in his attitude if ... 1. he simply lets management do its job 2. he think more generally about the costs and benefits of his job 3. he finds out that most of his co-workers share his attitude 4. a management person helps him see the wisdom of the new rule Question 13: Gender-based discrimination affects a substantial proportion of the population by ... 1. blocking women’s progress in the workplace 2. blocking men disproportionately from technical careers 3. affecting women’s status in the social world more generally 4. increasing the level of marital discord Question 14: Differential actions taken toward members of specific social groups are known as ... 1. discrimination 2. minimal groups 3. incidental feelings 4. prejudices Question 15: One result of tokenism is that it ... 1. can damage the self-esteem and confidence of tokenized individuals 2. increases the likelihood of minority group protests 3. increases the likelihood of affirmative action lawsuits 4. damages the self-esteem of biased majority-group members