PSY340 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
The strongest support for the claim that we have a need to belong comes from the
finding that - Answer -relationships are vital to our physical and mental well-being.
In a series of experiments, Harlow (1958) raised baby rhesus monkeys in isolation from
other rhesus monkeys but with access to two "mother surrogates," one made of cloth
and the other made of wire and able to provide milk. Which of the following statements
best describes the results of these experiments? - Answer -The monkeys suffered from
isolation, preferred the comfort of the cloth mother, and were highly fearful of their
monkey peers in adolescence.
The mere exposure effect can be explained in part by - Answer -classical conditioning.
Long ago, William Whyte made the following observation about the formation of
relationships: "Despite the fact that a person can pick and choose from a vast number of
people to make friends with, such things as the placement of a stoop or the direction of
a street often have more to do with determining who is friends with whom." This
observation is consistent with social psychological research showing that relationship
formation is often influenced by - Answer -proximity
Before doing his groundbreaking research on cognitive dissonance, Leon Festinger and
his colleagues (1950) conducted research at a university housing project called
Westgate West. Among other things, they examined friendship formation among
apartment residents. The results showed that the residents living near the stairwells
formed twice as many friendships with upstairs neighbors as those living in the middle
apartments, which were further from the stairs. These results illustrate the impact of
___________________ on friendship formation. - Answer -functional distance
Burgess and Wallin (1953) studied the personality characteristics of hundreds of
engaged couples. Specifically, they compared couples who planned to marry with
"random" couples they created by pairing individual members of one couple with
individual members of another couple. The results showed that members of engaged
couples, compared to random couples, were significantly - Answer -more similar to
each other on demographic, physical, and personality characteristics.
Recall that through either photographic or computer technology, researchers can make
a composite (or "averaged") face out of any number of individual faces. When people
are asked to rate the attractiveness of composite faces relative to individual faces, -
Answer -regardless of sex, people tend to prefer composite faces.
Which of the following pieces of evidence supports Eagly and Wood's theory that
gender differences in mate preferences are driven by culture rather than evolution? -
Answer -The greater the gender equality in a given society, the less importance women
place on earning capacity in a potential mate.
The strongest support for the claim that we have a need to belong comes from the
finding that - Answer -relationships are vital to our physical and mental well-being.
In a series of experiments, Harlow (1958) raised baby rhesus monkeys in isolation from
other rhesus monkeys but with access to two "mother surrogates," one made of cloth
and the other made of wire and able to provide milk. Which of the following statements
best describes the results of these experiments? - Answer -The monkeys suffered from
isolation, preferred the comfort of the cloth mother, and were highly fearful of their
monkey peers in adolescence.
The mere exposure effect can be explained in part by - Answer -classical conditioning.
Long ago, William Whyte made the following observation about the formation of
relationships: "Despite the fact that a person can pick and choose from a vast number of
people to make friends with, such things as the placement of a stoop or the direction of
a street often have more to do with determining who is friends with whom." This
observation is consistent with social psychological research showing that relationship
formation is often influenced by - Answer -proximity
Before doing his groundbreaking research on cognitive dissonance, Leon Festinger and
his colleagues (1950) conducted research at a university housing project called
Westgate West. Among other things, they examined friendship formation among
apartment residents. The results showed that the residents living near the stairwells
formed twice as many friendships with upstairs neighbors as those living in the middle
apartments, which were further from the stairs. These results illustrate the impact of
___________________ on friendship formation. - Answer -functional distance
Burgess and Wallin (1953) studied the personality characteristics of hundreds of
engaged couples. Specifically, they compared couples who planned to marry with
"random" couples they created by pairing individual members of one couple with
individual members of another couple. The results showed that members of engaged
couples, compared to random couples, were significantly - Answer -more similar to
each other on demographic, physical, and personality characteristics.
Recall that through either photographic or computer technology, researchers can make
a composite (or "averaged") face out of any number of individual faces. When people
are asked to rate the attractiveness of composite faces relative to individual faces, -
Answer -regardless of sex, people tend to prefer composite faces.
Which of the following pieces of evidence supports Eagly and Wood's theory that
gender differences in mate preferences are driven by culture rather than evolution? -
Answer -The greater the gender equality in a given society, the less importance women
place on earning capacity in a potential mate.
