Week 1
1. Ostracism refers to being deliberately ignored and excluded by others. The temporal need-threat model of
ostracism defines 3 stages that occurs after ostracism: reflexive stage, reflective stage, and resignation
stage. What does the resignation stage refer to?
a) initial response, flood of negative feelings
b) alienation, helplessness, loss of self-worth, depression
c) trying to understand why the exclusion happened
d) giving up attempts to belong to a group
2. The herd instinct is the idea that:
a) self-esteem instinctively monitors the degree to which people perceive that they are relationally valued
by other people
b) humans are instinctively drawn to gather with other humans
c) the pain of exclusion is instinctively similar to the pain caused by physical injury
d) members instinctively pay back what others give to them
3. The optimal distinctiveness theory states that most people have at least three fundamental needs. Which
of the following is not mentioned in the theory?
a) assimilation by a group
b) need to be connected to friends and loved ones
c) need for autonomy and differentiation
d) need for control
4. 2 months after joining a football team, Jane starts to accept the group as an extension of herself and
basing her own self-definition on the group’s characteristics. Which of the following theories refer to this
phenomenon?
a) social identification
b) self-stereotyping
c) social categorization
d) optimal distinctiveness theory
5. Whitney’s science club is a group that emphasizes cooperation, and lacks aggression and competitiveness.
They are looking for new members. Who would be the best fit in their group?
a) Anne, who scores high on agreeableness
b) Nancy, who scores high on neuroticism
c) Omar, who scores high on openness to experience
d) Cecily, who scores high on conscientiousness
6. If we use the dimensions of anxiety and avoidance, we can define 4 types of childhood attachment styles
lead to group-joining tendencies later in life. If someone scores low on avoidance and high on anxiety,
they can be categorized as:
a) secure
b) dismissing
c) preoccupied
d) fearful
7. In one of the principles of attraction, forming of a group occurs when there are dissimilar but
complementary needs about the group’s characteristics. Which theory refers to this phenomenon?
a) originator combability
b) interchange compatibility
c) homophily-compatibility
d) minimax principle
, Week 2
8. Social cohesion consists of liking for specific members of the group and liking for the group itself. This is
defined by the:
a) multicomponent assumption
b) multilevel assumption
c) multimethod assumption
d) social cohesion theory
9. According to the equilibrium model, group members strive to maintain a balance between accomplishing
the task and enhancing the quality of the interpersonal relationships within the group. In this way, they
cycle between:
a) forming and norming
b) norming and storming
c) performing and adjourning
d) performing and norming
10. In a board meeting, a member votes for a new rule that she privately doesn’t like at all. What type of
conformity is this?
a) compliance
b) conversion
c) congruence
d) strategic conformity
11. According to the social impact theory, the magnitude of social influence pressures depends on 3 things.
Which of the following is not one of them?
a) the novelty of the sources
b) the number of sources
c) the strength of the sources
d) the psychological immediacy of the sources
12. What is the result of a majority influence?
a) arguments are considered closely
b) more profound and lasting changes than after a minority influence
c) conversion
d) compliance
13. Usually, people who know that they are members of the majority feel less pressure to articulate their
points clearly. Members of the minority feel more pressure and therefore they are more likely to have put
more thought into the issue, and hence have a stronger defense. This is called:
a) diligence of dissenters
b) idiosyncrasy credits
c) the conversion theory
d) the black-sheep effect
Week 3
14. Proscriptive norms are:
a) socially appropriate ways to respond in a situation
b) socially inappropriate ways to respond in a situation
c) what people usually do, feel, or think
d) the stricter rules about how to behave (or: negative evaluation by others)
1. Ostracism refers to being deliberately ignored and excluded by others. The temporal need-threat model of
ostracism defines 3 stages that occurs after ostracism: reflexive stage, reflective stage, and resignation
stage. What does the resignation stage refer to?
a) initial response, flood of negative feelings
b) alienation, helplessness, loss of self-worth, depression
c) trying to understand why the exclusion happened
d) giving up attempts to belong to a group
2. The herd instinct is the idea that:
a) self-esteem instinctively monitors the degree to which people perceive that they are relationally valued
by other people
b) humans are instinctively drawn to gather with other humans
c) the pain of exclusion is instinctively similar to the pain caused by physical injury
d) members instinctively pay back what others give to them
3. The optimal distinctiveness theory states that most people have at least three fundamental needs. Which
of the following is not mentioned in the theory?
a) assimilation by a group
b) need to be connected to friends and loved ones
c) need for autonomy and differentiation
d) need for control
4. 2 months after joining a football team, Jane starts to accept the group as an extension of herself and
basing her own self-definition on the group’s characteristics. Which of the following theories refer to this
phenomenon?
a) social identification
b) self-stereotyping
c) social categorization
d) optimal distinctiveness theory
5. Whitney’s science club is a group that emphasizes cooperation, and lacks aggression and competitiveness.
They are looking for new members. Who would be the best fit in their group?
a) Anne, who scores high on agreeableness
b) Nancy, who scores high on neuroticism
c) Omar, who scores high on openness to experience
d) Cecily, who scores high on conscientiousness
6. If we use the dimensions of anxiety and avoidance, we can define 4 types of childhood attachment styles
lead to group-joining tendencies later in life. If someone scores low on avoidance and high on anxiety,
they can be categorized as:
a) secure
b) dismissing
c) preoccupied
d) fearful
7. In one of the principles of attraction, forming of a group occurs when there are dissimilar but
complementary needs about the group’s characteristics. Which theory refers to this phenomenon?
a) originator combability
b) interchange compatibility
c) homophily-compatibility
d) minimax principle
, Week 2
8. Social cohesion consists of liking for specific members of the group and liking for the group itself. This is
defined by the:
a) multicomponent assumption
b) multilevel assumption
c) multimethod assumption
d) social cohesion theory
9. According to the equilibrium model, group members strive to maintain a balance between accomplishing
the task and enhancing the quality of the interpersonal relationships within the group. In this way, they
cycle between:
a) forming and norming
b) norming and storming
c) performing and adjourning
d) performing and norming
10. In a board meeting, a member votes for a new rule that she privately doesn’t like at all. What type of
conformity is this?
a) compliance
b) conversion
c) congruence
d) strategic conformity
11. According to the social impact theory, the magnitude of social influence pressures depends on 3 things.
Which of the following is not one of them?
a) the novelty of the sources
b) the number of sources
c) the strength of the sources
d) the psychological immediacy of the sources
12. What is the result of a majority influence?
a) arguments are considered closely
b) more profound and lasting changes than after a minority influence
c) conversion
d) compliance
13. Usually, people who know that they are members of the majority feel less pressure to articulate their
points clearly. Members of the minority feel more pressure and therefore they are more likely to have put
more thought into the issue, and hence have a stronger defense. This is called:
a) diligence of dissenters
b) idiosyncrasy credits
c) the conversion theory
d) the black-sheep effect
Week 3
14. Proscriptive norms are:
a) socially appropriate ways to respond in a situation
b) socially inappropriate ways to respond in a situation
c) what people usually do, feel, or think
d) the stricter rules about how to behave (or: negative evaluation by others)
