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PSY 3304 Review Questions & 100%
Correct Answers
To understand humans, one needs only to know about environmental
rewards and punishments. This statement would most likely be endorsed by a
strict
✓ ~~> behaviorist
Several presidents have been given conflicting advice during wartime. Some
advisers urged the president to pursue a peaceful solution; others urged him
to escalate bombing to overcome the enemy. These presidents did not want
to go down in history as the first U.S. president to lose a war, so they have
chosen to escalate, thereby prolonging the war. According to your text, this
decision was most likely a consequence of the motive to
✓ ~~> justify previous actions
Why is a scientific approach preferable to reliance on folk wisdom and
common sense?
✓ ~~> Folk wisdom and common sense are filled with contradictions
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Sometimes when we encounter behavior that is unpleasant or unexpected,
we assume that something about the person—and not the situation—caused
the behavior. In this sense, lay people are most like
✓ ~~> personality psychologists
Professor Jaffrey believes that children learn to be polite when they are
rewarded for saying things like "please" and "thank you." Professor Jaffrey is
most likely a ________ psychologist
✓ ~~> behavioral
The social cognition approach compares people to amateur
✓ ~~> detectives
You've heard that members of a certain fraternity or sorority are snobs.
Whenever you see members of that fraternity or sorority, you look down and
hurry past them. When they don't greet you, you say to yourself, "Just like I
thought—they're all arrogant snobs." You have experienced a phenomenon
known as
✓ ~~> the self-fulfilling prophecy
Which of the following questions is most likely to be asked by a social
psychologist?
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✓ ~~> What situations cause people to behave rudely?
How would a personality psychologist most likely explain the mass suicide in
Jonestown?
✓ ~~> People who have traits of being unstable are more likely to join
cults.
Rahid's server in the restaurant just can't seem to get his order right. If Rahid
has just read Chapter 1 on social influence and is thinking more like a social
psychologist than before, what would he be most likely to think?
✓ ~~> "This person must have had a bad morning."
According to the definition of social psychology presented in your text, social
psychology is the study of how ________ affect the thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors of humans.
✓ ~~> the presence of real or imagined others
Assil has an educated guess about the social behavior of teenagers when
their high school team wins the football game. That means that she has a(n)
______ about how the teens behave.
✓ ~~> hypothesis
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Rashim is viewed by most people he knows as rude, brusque, and completely
unconcerned with other people's feelings. He, in contrast, describes himself
as efficient and task-oriented. Rahim's self-description best reflects the motive
to
✓ ~~> justify our past behavior.
The word "construal" refers to
✓ ~~> personal interpretations.
The tendency most people have to discount situational explanations of
behavior in favor of personality characteristics or traits is called the
✓ ~~> fundamental attribution error.
Karen returns home from her first year of college, and is very proud of her first-
year GPA. She earned a 3.0 ("B") average. She's unhappily surprised to
discover that her parents are disappointed that she didn't perform better. This
difference in interpretation illustrates the power of ________ in explaining
social behavior.
✓ ~~> construals
Ross and colleagues (2004) randomly assigned participants previously
identified as either competitive or cooperative to one of two games: the
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PSY 3304 Review Questions & 100%
Correct Answers
To understand humans, one needs only to know about environmental
rewards and punishments. This statement would most likely be endorsed by a
strict
✓ ~~> behaviorist
Several presidents have been given conflicting advice during wartime. Some
advisers urged the president to pursue a peaceful solution; others urged him
to escalate bombing to overcome the enemy. These presidents did not want
to go down in history as the first U.S. president to lose a war, so they have
chosen to escalate, thereby prolonging the war. According to your text, this
decision was most likely a consequence of the motive to
✓ ~~> justify previous actions
Why is a scientific approach preferable to reliance on folk wisdom and
common sense?
✓ ~~> Folk wisdom and common sense are filled with contradictions
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Sometimes when we encounter behavior that is unpleasant or unexpected,
we assume that something about the person—and not the situation—caused
the behavior. In this sense, lay people are most like
✓ ~~> personality psychologists
Professor Jaffrey believes that children learn to be polite when they are
rewarded for saying things like "please" and "thank you." Professor Jaffrey is
most likely a ________ psychologist
✓ ~~> behavioral
The social cognition approach compares people to amateur
✓ ~~> detectives
You've heard that members of a certain fraternity or sorority are snobs.
Whenever you see members of that fraternity or sorority, you look down and
hurry past them. When they don't greet you, you say to yourself, "Just like I
thought—they're all arrogant snobs." You have experienced a phenomenon
known as
✓ ~~> the self-fulfilling prophecy
Which of the following questions is most likely to be asked by a social
psychologist?
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✓ ~~> What situations cause people to behave rudely?
How would a personality psychologist most likely explain the mass suicide in
Jonestown?
✓ ~~> People who have traits of being unstable are more likely to join
cults.
Rahid's server in the restaurant just can't seem to get his order right. If Rahid
has just read Chapter 1 on social influence and is thinking more like a social
psychologist than before, what would he be most likely to think?
✓ ~~> "This person must have had a bad morning."
According to the definition of social psychology presented in your text, social
psychology is the study of how ________ affect the thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors of humans.
✓ ~~> the presence of real or imagined others
Assil has an educated guess about the social behavior of teenagers when
their high school team wins the football game. That means that she has a(n)
______ about how the teens behave.
✓ ~~> hypothesis
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Rashim is viewed by most people he knows as rude, brusque, and completely
unconcerned with other people's feelings. He, in contrast, describes himself
as efficient and task-oriented. Rahim's self-description best reflects the motive
to
✓ ~~> justify our past behavior.
The word "construal" refers to
✓ ~~> personal interpretations.
The tendency most people have to discount situational explanations of
behavior in favor of personality characteristics or traits is called the
✓ ~~> fundamental attribution error.
Karen returns home from her first year of college, and is very proud of her first-
year GPA. She earned a 3.0 ("B") average. She's unhappily surprised to
discover that her parents are disappointed that she didn't perform better. This
difference in interpretation illustrates the power of ________ in explaining
social behavior.
✓ ~~> construals
Ross and colleagues (2004) randomly assigned participants previously
identified as either competitive or cooperative to one of two games: the
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