GRE - Practice Exam With 100% Correct Answers 2023

Which of the following situations involving two people, P and O, and an object X, will NOT be balanced according to Heider's balance theory? (a) P likes O, and they both like X (b) P likes O, and they both dislike X (c) P dislikes O, and they both dislike X (d) P dislikes O, P likes X, and O dislikes X (e) P dislikes O, P dislikes X, and O dislikes X - Correct Answer-C According to inoculation theory, a person's belief can be inoculated against a persuasive attack by (a) providing arguments to support the initial belief prior to the attack (b) providing arguments to support the initial belief subsequent to the attack (c) warning the individual that there will be an attack (d) anticipating the attacker's arguments and discrediting those arguments (e) refuting the persuasive attack subsequent to its presentation - Correct Answer-D The admonition that "you shouldn't take more love than you give" is most directly supported by (a) equity theory (b) the halo effect (c) the mere exposure effect (d) social comparison theory (e) the Romeo and Juliet effect - Correct Answer-A An experiment is staged so that on three occasions a subject overheard a confederate evaluate him. Which sequence of evaluations would lead the subject to be most attracted to the confederate, as predicted by Aronson's gain-loss principle? (a) negative, negative, negative (b) negative, negative, positive (c) positive, negative, negative (d) positive, positive, negative (e) positive, positive, positive - Correct Answer-B A student is waiting for her first meeting with her faculty adviser. From inside the office, the student hears someone saying "Stop it...get your hands off me..."; and then heard the sound of furniture crashing. The student is a subject in a staged experiment, and she is waiting in one of four conditions; alone; with two naive subjects. If the results of this experiment follow the pattern of the Darley and Latane bystander intervention research, then which of the following sequences would correspond to decreasing frequency of helping behavior by students? (a) four passive confederates, alone, two passive confederates, two naive subjects(b) 4 passive confederates, 2 passive confederates, 2 naive subjects, alone (c) 2 naive subjects, 2 passive confederates, alone, 4 passive confederates (d) alone, 4 passive confederates, 2 passive confederates, alone, 2 naive subjects (e) alone, 2 naive subjects, 2 passive confederates, 4 passive confederates - Correct Answer-E Which of the following best illustrates an attempt to use the foot-in-the-door effect? (a) a salesperson tries to sell a radio to a customer for $75; the customer resists, and the salesperson lowers the price to $65 (b) a telephone solicitor calls a home and asks a person several questions about his reading habits; the solicitor then describes the benefits of subscribing to a newspaper he is selling (c) an advertisement in