EPPP PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM PAPER 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔________________ proposes that when internal cues are insufficient people
acquire info about themselves by observing their external behavs and/or the context in
which the behavs occur
a) Barnum effect
b) self-perception theory
c) self-verification theory
d) social comparison theory - ✔✔self-perception theory
✔✔Schachter and Singer's ___________ studies found that perception of emotion
depends on a combination of physio arousal and cogntive labels for that arousal -
✔✔epinephrine
✔✔The ________ predicts that when an external reward is given to someone for
performing an intrinsically rewarding task, the person's intrinsic interest in it decreases
a) Barnum effect
b) overjustification hypothesis
c) self-verification theory
d) social comparison theory - ✔✔overjustification hypothesis
✔✔_______________ proposes that people have an innate drive to evaluate their own
opinions/behavs and that in the absence of objective standards, they do so my
comparing them to those of others
a) Barnum effect
b) self-perception theory
c) self-verification theory
d) social comparison theory - ✔✔social comparison theory
✔✔T/F When evaluating our own undesirable behav, we tend to compare ourselves to
those who exhibit more of that behav - ✔✔T
✔✔_______________ predicts that once a person has formed a self-concept, they seek
to maintain it by using cognitive and behav strategies that are deigned to obtain info that
is consistent with that self-concept
a) self-verification theory
b) self-perception theory
c) self-verification theory
d) social comparison theory - ✔✔self-varification theory
✔✔_____________ refers to people's need to manage the impressions that others form
of them
a) self-handicapping
, b) Barnum effect
c) gain-loss effect
d)self-monitoring - ✔✔self-monitoring
✔✔People ________ in self-monitoring are concerned with how others see them and
often conceal their true feelings and opinions - ✔✔high
✔✔A ___________ locus of control is associated with more desirable outcomes -
✔✔internal
✔✔_____________ is the tendency for people to accept vague or general descriptions
as accurate descriptions of themselves (ie horoscopes)
_____________ refers to people's need to manage the impressions that others form of
them
a) self-handicapping
b) Barnum effect
c) gain-loss effect
d)self-verification theory - ✔✔barnum effect
✔✔____________ acts as a protective factor and has three primary characteristics of
commitment, challenge and control - ✔✔hardiness
✔✔Three types of social influence - ✔✔conformity, compliance, & obedience
✔✔____________ occurs when as the result of real or imagined social pressure a
person shifts his actions so that they correspond with others
a) conformity
b) compliance
c) obedience - ✔✔conformity
✔✔Sherif's study of conformity used the _________ effect -a perceptual phenomenon in
which a stationary point of light appears to move in a darkened room - ✔✔autokinetic
✔✔In Sherif's autokinetic experiment, participants demonstrated a __________ effect-
their estimates of how far the light moved usually conformed to the group norm -
✔✔convergence effect
✔✔___________refers to changes in behav that occur in response to explicit or implicit
requests
a) conformity
b) compliance
c) obedience - ✔✔compliance
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔________________ proposes that when internal cues are insufficient people
acquire info about themselves by observing their external behavs and/or the context in
which the behavs occur
a) Barnum effect
b) self-perception theory
c) self-verification theory
d) social comparison theory - ✔✔self-perception theory
✔✔Schachter and Singer's ___________ studies found that perception of emotion
depends on a combination of physio arousal and cogntive labels for that arousal -
✔✔epinephrine
✔✔The ________ predicts that when an external reward is given to someone for
performing an intrinsically rewarding task, the person's intrinsic interest in it decreases
a) Barnum effect
b) overjustification hypothesis
c) self-verification theory
d) social comparison theory - ✔✔overjustification hypothesis
✔✔_______________ proposes that people have an innate drive to evaluate their own
opinions/behavs and that in the absence of objective standards, they do so my
comparing them to those of others
a) Barnum effect
b) self-perception theory
c) self-verification theory
d) social comparison theory - ✔✔social comparison theory
✔✔T/F When evaluating our own undesirable behav, we tend to compare ourselves to
those who exhibit more of that behav - ✔✔T
✔✔_______________ predicts that once a person has formed a self-concept, they seek
to maintain it by using cognitive and behav strategies that are deigned to obtain info that
is consistent with that self-concept
a) self-verification theory
b) self-perception theory
c) self-verification theory
d) social comparison theory - ✔✔self-varification theory
✔✔_____________ refers to people's need to manage the impressions that others form
of them
a) self-handicapping
, b) Barnum effect
c) gain-loss effect
d)self-monitoring - ✔✔self-monitoring
✔✔People ________ in self-monitoring are concerned with how others see them and
often conceal their true feelings and opinions - ✔✔high
✔✔A ___________ locus of control is associated with more desirable outcomes -
✔✔internal
✔✔_____________ is the tendency for people to accept vague or general descriptions
as accurate descriptions of themselves (ie horoscopes)
_____________ refers to people's need to manage the impressions that others form of
them
a) self-handicapping
b) Barnum effect
c) gain-loss effect
d)self-verification theory - ✔✔barnum effect
✔✔____________ acts as a protective factor and has three primary characteristics of
commitment, challenge and control - ✔✔hardiness
✔✔Three types of social influence - ✔✔conformity, compliance, & obedience
✔✔____________ occurs when as the result of real or imagined social pressure a
person shifts his actions so that they correspond with others
a) conformity
b) compliance
c) obedience - ✔✔conformity
✔✔Sherif's study of conformity used the _________ effect -a perceptual phenomenon in
which a stationary point of light appears to move in a darkened room - ✔✔autokinetic
✔✔In Sherif's autokinetic experiment, participants demonstrated a __________ effect-
their estimates of how far the light moved usually conformed to the group norm -
✔✔convergence effect
✔✔___________refers to changes in behav that occur in response to explicit or implicit
requests
a) conformity
b) compliance
c) obedience - ✔✔compliance
