SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025/2026 ALL RATED A+
✔✔Janica recently started hanging around 2 different guys: Michael and Devarious.
She likes them both a lot and can't decide who she would rather date. She makes a list
of pros and cons and attempts to decide which relationship would provide the most
benefits. Her reasoning is in accordance with the - ✔✔Social exchange theory
✔✔According to Batson's __________ model of pro social behavior, putting yourself in
the shoes of someone else and thinking about how they feel will make you more likely
to help - ✔✔Empathy-alturism
✔✔The process of changing our attitude toward something based on some kind of
communication is called - ✔✔Persuasion
✔✔______________designed the obedience study to test if subjects would give
"learners" electric shocks when they missed test questions - ✔✔Milgram
✔✔High unemployment, family background, recessions, and lack of educational
opportunities are all__________factors of why people may be in poverty. -
✔✔Situational
✔✔A social role is defined as a - ✔✔Socially defined pattern of behavior that is
expected of a person in a given setting or group
✔✔Lissana was waiting in line at the grocery store for about twenty minutes. When she
finally got to the cashier, Lissiana was angry that the cashier seemed to be so annoyed.
Lissana wondered why the cashier worked there, believing that she was temperamental
and had poor social skills and therefore, was in the wrong profession. Which bias does
this best illustrate? - ✔✔The fundamental attribution error
✔✔The Stanford prison experiment mostly showed that - ✔✔Social roles have an
impact on behavior
✔✔Intrapersonal things focus on topics like emotions, attitudes that things that affect
the____________, whereas interpersonal things examine topics like prejudice,
discrimination, relationships, and _______________ behavior - ✔✔Self; group
✔✔The ____________ is the belief that people get the outcomes they deserve -
✔✔Just-word hypothesis
✔✔Using cold, hard facts to sell a computer is an example of the _____________ to
persuasion - ✔✔Central route
, ✔✔Giselle understands the harmful effects of smoking, and yells at her parents for
smoking, but smokes anyways. She feels some psychological discomfort from her
hypocritical behavior. This discomfort is called - ✔✔Cognitive dissonance
✔✔Recent economic problems combined with a refugee crisis has led many countries
to blame refugees for taking jobs and inciting terrorist activities. In this example,
refugees are victims of ________, as they are blamed because of frustration
experienced within an in-group. - ✔✔scapegoating
✔✔Ramona heard screams in the subway station, and fearlessly jumped onto the
tracks to rescue a young boy who had fallen onto the tracks. Ramona's behavior is an
example of ________. - ✔✔bystander intervention
✔✔High unemployment, family background, recessions, and lack of educational
opportunities are all ________ factors of why people may be in poverty. - ✔✔situational
✔✔If Dana's management team wants to avoid falling prey to groupthink, they should -
✔✔seek outside opinions on group decsions
✔✔The tendency for people to form social networks, like friendships and relationships,
with others who are similar to them is known as - ✔✔homophily
✔✔Joe Banks is running for mayor. First, he has a team walk through neighborhoods to
handout buttons and small fliers. A week later, another team goes by to ask if people
would be willing to put small signs in their yards. Two weeks after that, he goes through
the neighborhood to ask for help on voting day. He is using methods of ________. -
✔✔foot-in-the-door phenomenon
✔✔Before registering for the next semester, Karen asks her friends about a professor
she doesn't know. They all say the professor is a great teacher. Consequently, Karen
assumes that this person is a great teacher and enrolls in the course. Which type of
conformity is this? - ✔✔informational conformity
✔✔The influence that a group has on the judgment of an individual is called - ✔✔The
Asch Effect
✔✔The saying, "I scratch your back, you scratch mine." best fits with the concept of -
✔✔reciprocity
✔✔Jarred Younger's research showed that - ✔✔looking at images of a romantic partner
or holding hands with a romantic partner
ANSWERS 2025/2026 ALL RATED A+
✔✔Janica recently started hanging around 2 different guys: Michael and Devarious.
She likes them both a lot and can't decide who she would rather date. She makes a list
of pros and cons and attempts to decide which relationship would provide the most
benefits. Her reasoning is in accordance with the - ✔✔Social exchange theory
✔✔According to Batson's __________ model of pro social behavior, putting yourself in
the shoes of someone else and thinking about how they feel will make you more likely
to help - ✔✔Empathy-alturism
✔✔The process of changing our attitude toward something based on some kind of
communication is called - ✔✔Persuasion
✔✔______________designed the obedience study to test if subjects would give
"learners" electric shocks when they missed test questions - ✔✔Milgram
✔✔High unemployment, family background, recessions, and lack of educational
opportunities are all__________factors of why people may be in poverty. -
✔✔Situational
✔✔A social role is defined as a - ✔✔Socially defined pattern of behavior that is
expected of a person in a given setting or group
✔✔Lissana was waiting in line at the grocery store for about twenty minutes. When she
finally got to the cashier, Lissiana was angry that the cashier seemed to be so annoyed.
Lissana wondered why the cashier worked there, believing that she was temperamental
and had poor social skills and therefore, was in the wrong profession. Which bias does
this best illustrate? - ✔✔The fundamental attribution error
✔✔The Stanford prison experiment mostly showed that - ✔✔Social roles have an
impact on behavior
✔✔Intrapersonal things focus on topics like emotions, attitudes that things that affect
the____________, whereas interpersonal things examine topics like prejudice,
discrimination, relationships, and _______________ behavior - ✔✔Self; group
✔✔The ____________ is the belief that people get the outcomes they deserve -
✔✔Just-word hypothesis
✔✔Using cold, hard facts to sell a computer is an example of the _____________ to
persuasion - ✔✔Central route
, ✔✔Giselle understands the harmful effects of smoking, and yells at her parents for
smoking, but smokes anyways. She feels some psychological discomfort from her
hypocritical behavior. This discomfort is called - ✔✔Cognitive dissonance
✔✔Recent economic problems combined with a refugee crisis has led many countries
to blame refugees for taking jobs and inciting terrorist activities. In this example,
refugees are victims of ________, as they are blamed because of frustration
experienced within an in-group. - ✔✔scapegoating
✔✔Ramona heard screams in the subway station, and fearlessly jumped onto the
tracks to rescue a young boy who had fallen onto the tracks. Ramona's behavior is an
example of ________. - ✔✔bystander intervention
✔✔High unemployment, family background, recessions, and lack of educational
opportunities are all ________ factors of why people may be in poverty. - ✔✔situational
✔✔If Dana's management team wants to avoid falling prey to groupthink, they should -
✔✔seek outside opinions on group decsions
✔✔The tendency for people to form social networks, like friendships and relationships,
with others who are similar to them is known as - ✔✔homophily
✔✔Joe Banks is running for mayor. First, he has a team walk through neighborhoods to
handout buttons and small fliers. A week later, another team goes by to ask if people
would be willing to put small signs in their yards. Two weeks after that, he goes through
the neighborhood to ask for help on voting day. He is using methods of ________. -
✔✔foot-in-the-door phenomenon
✔✔Before registering for the next semester, Karen asks her friends about a professor
she doesn't know. They all say the professor is a great teacher. Consequently, Karen
assumes that this person is a great teacher and enrolls in the course. Which type of
conformity is this? - ✔✔informational conformity
✔✔The influence that a group has on the judgment of an individual is called - ✔✔The
Asch Effect
✔✔The saying, "I scratch your back, you scratch mine." best fits with the concept of -
✔✔reciprocity
✔✔Jarred Younger's research showed that - ✔✔looking at images of a romantic partner
or holding hands with a romantic partner
