Psychology 1010 Exam 3 Multiple
Choice Questions with Answers
Social psychology focuses on ___ in predicting human behavior. - -situational
factors
- Making internal attributions for your successes and making external
attributions for your failures. - -self-serving bias
- Collectivist cultures are to __ as individualistic cultures are to ___. - -
situational; dispositional
- According to the actor-observer bias, we have are info about ___. - -
influences on our own behavior
- A ___ is a set of group expectations for appropriate thoughts and behaviors
of members. - -social norm
- Jose suits up for the 1st day of practice, reflective of a ___. - -skript
- When it comes to buying clothes, teens follow social norms motivated by
___. - -fitting in
- In the Stanford experiment, even lead researchers succumbed to his role,
showing the power of ___ influencing behavior. - -social roles
- Attitudes describe our ___ of people, objects, and ideas. - -evaluations
- Cognitive dissonance causes discomfort because it disrupts our sense of
___. - -consistency
- In order for the central route to persuasion to be affective, audience must
be ___ and ___. - -analytical; motivated
- Examples of cues used in peripheral persuasion include all of the following
except ___. - -factual information
- In Asch experiment, conformity occurs due to ___ social influence. - -
normative
- Under what conditions will informational social influences be more likely? -
-when the answer is unclear and when the group has expertise
, - Social loafing occurs when ___. - -individual performance can't be
evaluated and the task is easy
- if group members modify their opinions to align with a perceived group,
then ___ has occurred. - -group think
- Prejudice is to ___ as discrimination is to ___. - -feelings; behaviors
- What is not a type of prejudice - -individualism
- ___ occurs when the out-group is blamed for the in-group's frustration - -
scapegoating
- Seeking out info to support stereotypes is called ___. - -conformation bias
- Bullying from boys is ___ as bullying to girls is ___. - -physical harm;
emotional harm
- Which one of the following is least likely to be a target for bullying? - -
captain of the football team
- Bystander affect occurs due to ___. - -diffusion of responsibility
- Altruism is prosocial behavior motivated by ___. - -selfless help to others
- After moving somewhere new, you're most likely to be friends with ___. - -
next door neighbor
- What trait do men and women look for in a romantic partner? - -physical
attractiveness
- According to the triangular theory of love, what type of love is passion and
intimacy but no commitment? - -romantic love
- According to the social exchange theory, humans want to maximize ___
and minimize ___ in relationships. - -benefits; costs
- The view that development is a cumulative process, gradually adding to
the same type of skills is known as ___. - -continuous development
- Developmental psychologists study human growth and development
across three domains, which is not one? - -physiological
- How is lifespan development defined? - -the study of how we grow and
change from conception to death
Choice Questions with Answers
Social psychology focuses on ___ in predicting human behavior. - -situational
factors
- Making internal attributions for your successes and making external
attributions for your failures. - -self-serving bias
- Collectivist cultures are to __ as individualistic cultures are to ___. - -
situational; dispositional
- According to the actor-observer bias, we have are info about ___. - -
influences on our own behavior
- A ___ is a set of group expectations for appropriate thoughts and behaviors
of members. - -social norm
- Jose suits up for the 1st day of practice, reflective of a ___. - -skript
- When it comes to buying clothes, teens follow social norms motivated by
___. - -fitting in
- In the Stanford experiment, even lead researchers succumbed to his role,
showing the power of ___ influencing behavior. - -social roles
- Attitudes describe our ___ of people, objects, and ideas. - -evaluations
- Cognitive dissonance causes discomfort because it disrupts our sense of
___. - -consistency
- In order for the central route to persuasion to be affective, audience must
be ___ and ___. - -analytical; motivated
- Examples of cues used in peripheral persuasion include all of the following
except ___. - -factual information
- In Asch experiment, conformity occurs due to ___ social influence. - -
normative
- Under what conditions will informational social influences be more likely? -
-when the answer is unclear and when the group has expertise
, - Social loafing occurs when ___. - -individual performance can't be
evaluated and the task is easy
- if group members modify their opinions to align with a perceived group,
then ___ has occurred. - -group think
- Prejudice is to ___ as discrimination is to ___. - -feelings; behaviors
- What is not a type of prejudice - -individualism
- ___ occurs when the out-group is blamed for the in-group's frustration - -
scapegoating
- Seeking out info to support stereotypes is called ___. - -conformation bias
- Bullying from boys is ___ as bullying to girls is ___. - -physical harm;
emotional harm
- Which one of the following is least likely to be a target for bullying? - -
captain of the football team
- Bystander affect occurs due to ___. - -diffusion of responsibility
- Altruism is prosocial behavior motivated by ___. - -selfless help to others
- After moving somewhere new, you're most likely to be friends with ___. - -
next door neighbor
- What trait do men and women look for in a romantic partner? - -physical
attractiveness
- According to the triangular theory of love, what type of love is passion and
intimacy but no commitment? - -romantic love
- According to the social exchange theory, humans want to maximize ___
and minimize ___ in relationships. - -benefits; costs
- The view that development is a cumulative process, gradually adding to
the same type of skills is known as ___. - -continuous development
- Developmental psychologists study human growth and development
across three domains, which is not one? - -physiological
- How is lifespan development defined? - -the study of how we grow and
change from conception to death
