SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY CORE EXAM MANUAL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2025/2026 ALL RATED A+
✔✔the best statement about objective reality is - ✔✔that reality is filtered by our values
and beliefs
✔✔theories help social psychologists ____ their observations and ____ their
hypotheses. - ✔✔organize; test
✔✔the experimental factor that a researcher manipulates in a study is called the ____
variable. - ✔✔independent
✔✔you are more likely to be satisfied with your selection of soda, purchased from the
vending machine, if you are presented with ____ options rather that if you are presented
with ____ options. - ✔✔a few; many
✔✔Baumeister (2003) reported that people who engaged in sexual activity at an early
age, teen gang leaders, terrorists, and men in prison for committing violent crimes tend
to possess: - ✔✔high self-esteem
✔✔Which statement about predicting your own behaviors or relationships is TRUE? -
✔✔the people who know you can probably predict you behaviors better than you
✔✔the major purposes of random assignment in an experiment is to - ✔✔minimize the
differences between groups
✔✔what is NOT true about how values affect social psychology? - ✔✔social psychology
research shows us what to values
✔✔people with high self-esteem and narcissism are ____ - ✔✔more agressive
✔✔Learning about immune neglect, which statement applies to how most people
respond to failing an exam? - ✔✔the move on and try to do better
✔✔the study of naturally occurring relationships among variables is referred to as -
✔✔correlational research
✔✔persons from western cultures (America, England), relative to person's from eastern
cultures (China, Korea,) tend to: - ✔✔stress their individual accomplishments and
uniqueness
, ✔✔you've noticed that as the temperature drops outside, you see more students
wearing sweaters and heavy coats. your observation is most similar to: -
✔✔correlational research
✔✔A psychiatrist tells you that she is interested in determining if the condition of
individuals who are clinically depressed improves with either 20 or 40 milligrams of
Prozac. She decides to administer 20 milligrams to a random half of her clients, and 40
milligrams to the other half. She finds that after six months, the clients who took 40
milligrams of Prozac are significantly less depressed than those clients who took 20
milligrams of Prozac. Which type of study did the psychiatrist conduct? -
✔✔experimental research
✔✔Your self-esteem would correlate closely with what others think of you and your
group if you were in a(n) ______ culture. - ✔✔collectivistic
✔✔According to Wilson and Gilbert (2003), people have the greatest difficulty predicting
_______ of their future emotions. - ✔✔both the intensity and the duration
✔✔which of the following maxims best represents the concept of individualism? - ✔✔to
thine own self be true
✔✔In what type of culture would a threat to our personal identity (such as having
someone tell us we are dumb or weird) cause us to be more upset than a threat to our
collective identity (such as having someone ridicule students)? - ✔✔individualistic
✔✔assuming that everyone else if staring at your pimple on your chin is an example of
the: - ✔✔spotlight effect
✔✔Suppose you ask all the students who are failing a class if they believe the course is
too difficult, and you find that they indeed think it is. Although you have conducted a
basic survey, the results of it are limited because of your sample -
✔✔representativeness
✔✔You used to envy your brother because he was always so confident when talking to
others. Yet the older you become, the more you realize that your brother is more often
convinced of things rather than accurate about things. Your brother's behavior can be
explained by the - ✔✔overconfidence phenomenon
✔✔Once during a hospital stay, you observed a man and a woman (both in health
professional attire) talking. You assumed that the man was a physician and that the
woman was a nurse. Later, you found out the opposite was true. What type of heuristic
did you use during your initial reaction to the two individuals? - ✔✔representativeness
heuristic
AND ANSWERS 2025/2026 ALL RATED A+
✔✔the best statement about objective reality is - ✔✔that reality is filtered by our values
and beliefs
✔✔theories help social psychologists ____ their observations and ____ their
hypotheses. - ✔✔organize; test
✔✔the experimental factor that a researcher manipulates in a study is called the ____
variable. - ✔✔independent
✔✔you are more likely to be satisfied with your selection of soda, purchased from the
vending machine, if you are presented with ____ options rather that if you are presented
with ____ options. - ✔✔a few; many
✔✔Baumeister (2003) reported that people who engaged in sexual activity at an early
age, teen gang leaders, terrorists, and men in prison for committing violent crimes tend
to possess: - ✔✔high self-esteem
✔✔Which statement about predicting your own behaviors or relationships is TRUE? -
✔✔the people who know you can probably predict you behaviors better than you
✔✔the major purposes of random assignment in an experiment is to - ✔✔minimize the
differences between groups
✔✔what is NOT true about how values affect social psychology? - ✔✔social psychology
research shows us what to values
✔✔people with high self-esteem and narcissism are ____ - ✔✔more agressive
✔✔Learning about immune neglect, which statement applies to how most people
respond to failing an exam? - ✔✔the move on and try to do better
✔✔the study of naturally occurring relationships among variables is referred to as -
✔✔correlational research
✔✔persons from western cultures (America, England), relative to person's from eastern
cultures (China, Korea,) tend to: - ✔✔stress their individual accomplishments and
uniqueness
, ✔✔you've noticed that as the temperature drops outside, you see more students
wearing sweaters and heavy coats. your observation is most similar to: -
✔✔correlational research
✔✔A psychiatrist tells you that she is interested in determining if the condition of
individuals who are clinically depressed improves with either 20 or 40 milligrams of
Prozac. She decides to administer 20 milligrams to a random half of her clients, and 40
milligrams to the other half. She finds that after six months, the clients who took 40
milligrams of Prozac are significantly less depressed than those clients who took 20
milligrams of Prozac. Which type of study did the psychiatrist conduct? -
✔✔experimental research
✔✔Your self-esteem would correlate closely with what others think of you and your
group if you were in a(n) ______ culture. - ✔✔collectivistic
✔✔According to Wilson and Gilbert (2003), people have the greatest difficulty predicting
_______ of their future emotions. - ✔✔both the intensity and the duration
✔✔which of the following maxims best represents the concept of individualism? - ✔✔to
thine own self be true
✔✔In what type of culture would a threat to our personal identity (such as having
someone tell us we are dumb or weird) cause us to be more upset than a threat to our
collective identity (such as having someone ridicule students)? - ✔✔individualistic
✔✔assuming that everyone else if staring at your pimple on your chin is an example of
the: - ✔✔spotlight effect
✔✔Suppose you ask all the students who are failing a class if they believe the course is
too difficult, and you find that they indeed think it is. Although you have conducted a
basic survey, the results of it are limited because of your sample -
✔✔representativeness
✔✔You used to envy your brother because he was always so confident when talking to
others. Yet the older you become, the more you realize that your brother is more often
convinced of things rather than accurate about things. Your brother's behavior can be
explained by the - ✔✔overconfidence phenomenon
✔✔Once during a hospital stay, you observed a man and a woman (both in health
professional attire) talking. You assumed that the man was a physician and that the
woman was a nurse. Later, you found out the opposite was true. What type of heuristic
did you use during your initial reaction to the two individuals? - ✔✔representativeness
heuristic
