SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS | LATEST VERSION 2025/2026.

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS | LATEST
VERSION 2025/2026.




What is social psychology? - ANS The scientific investigation of how the thoughts, feelings
and behaviours of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of
others


what are some of the reasons that cause people to act inconsistently across contexts/time? -
ANS social influence, salient roles/identities, norms/expectations


study of mental processes such as attention, perception, creativity and reasoning -
ANS cognitive psychology


study of human behaviour from an individual perspective - ANS individual psychology


study of human behaviour in societies and culture - ANS social anthropology


study of social life, social change and social causes and consequences of human behaviour -
ANS sociology


Four levels of explanation - ANS Intrapersonal

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,Interpersonal and situational
Positional
Ideological


Which level of explanation is an analysis of interindividual interaction that considers the role of
general social beliefs, and of social relations between groups


a) intrapersonal
b) ideological
c) positional

d) Interpersonal and situational - ANS Ideological


Which level of explanation is an analysis of interindividual interaction with circumscribed
situations. The focus is on the dynamics of relations between specific individuals at a specific
time and in a specific situation
a) intrapersonal
b) ideological
c) positional

d) Interpersonal and situational - ANS Interpersonal and Situational


Which level of explanation is an analysis of psychological processes to do with peoples
representation and organisation of their experience of the social environment


a) intrapersonal
b) ideological
c) positional

d) Interpersonal and situational - ANS Intrapersonal




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,Which level of explanation is an analysis of interindividual interaction in specific situations, but
with the role of social position (e.g., status, identity) outisde the situation taken into
consideration


a) intrapersonal
b) ideological
c) positional

d) Interpersonal and situational - ANS Positional


how does cultural psychology differ from social psychology? - ANS in its explicit
consideration of culture


5 non-experimental methods of research - ANS direct observation
case studies
archival studies
surverys
field studies


Hypothetical forces that energise, direct and sustain our behaviour - ANS motives


Hunger, thirst, oxygen and warmth are all examples of what kind of motives?


primary or secondary? - ANS Primary


(Biological/innate)


What are seven examples of biological/innate motives - ANS 1. Hunger
2. Thirst
3. Oxygen


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, 4. Sleep
5. Warmth
6. Shelter
7. Sex


What are five examples of social/learned motives (AAANP) - ANS 1. Achievement
2. Affiliation
3. Aggression
4. Nurturance
5. Power


Fiskes core social motives (BUC(k)ET) - ANS Belonging
Understanding
Controlling
Enhancing Self
Trusting


Fiskes social motives that fall under affective motives - ANS Enhancing self and trusting


Fiskes social motives that fall under cognitive motives - ANS Understanding and controlling


Five fundamental underlying psychological processes that impel peoples thinking, feeling and
behaving in situations involving other people - ANS Fiskes core social motives


Need for shared meaning and prediction comes under which of fiskes core motives? -
ANS Understanding


Need for strong, stable relationships refers to which of fiskes core motives? - ANS Belonging



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