Question 1: According to our text, social psychology is a science that studies the impact of our

family background

situations

aptitudes

unconscious motives

Question 2: Our perceiving ourselves as athletic, overweight, smart, or shy constitutes our ....

egocentric beliefs

interdependent self

interdependent self

self-schemas

Question 3: Hypotheses are best characterized by ...

principles

axioms

predictions

conclusions

Question 4: Random assignment is necessary to...

insure mundane realism

insure informed consent

avoid the naturalistic fallacy

rule out preexisting differences between subjects in different experimental confitions

Question 5: Social scientists gather information like other scientists, through scientific methods that insure accuracy.

True

False

Question 6: In an experiment, the variable being measured is called the _____________ variable.

Control

Experimental

Independent

dependent

Question 7: The tendency to process efficiently and remember well information related to onself is called the

self-aggrandizing

self-schematizing

self-processing

self-reference

Question 8: People who believe themselves internally controlled are more likely to ...

take unnecessary tasks

be tolerant of racial differences

engage in self-handicapping

do well in school

Question 9: In an experimental study of the effects of failure on self-esteem, self-esteem is the ...

control condition

independent variable

dependent variable

experimental condition

Question 10: The fact that students tend to have a higher academic self-concept if they attend a school with few exceptionally capable students is best explained in terms of...

locas of control

self-handicapping

Social comparison

self- monitoring

Question 11: Those who do not exhibit self-handicapping and self-monitoring all reflect human efforts at...

nationalism

risk- taking

conformity

egoism

Question 12: Dismissive attachement is an avoidant relationship style marked by distrust of others.

True

False

Question 13: In one study, based on looks alone, people picked the winners of Senate and House races 3 out of 10 times.

True

False

Question 14: __________ is the change in behavior or belief to accord with others.

Cohesiveness

Conformity

Compliance

Obedience

Question 15: Which of the following is a technique for measuring attitudes?

self-monitoring pipeline

low ball technique

implicit assocation test

foot in the door technique

Question 16: The theory that best states that we adopt certain attitudes in order to justify our past actions is________ theory.

cognitive dissonance

self presentation

psychology reactance

self reliance

Question 17: The concept of romantic love is present

only in individualistic societies

only in affluent societies

only in cultures in which there are clear differences in gender roles

in most cultures

Question 18: The difference between deindividuation and groupthink can best be described as

Deindividuation is a psychological state; groupthink is impaired group decision making

Both involve an attempt to blend in with the crowd

Groupthink is when a group's initial average position becomes more extreme following group interaction; deindividuation is the opposite

Diffusion of responsibility is part of both of these processes

Question 19: Our desire to return a favor is best explained in terms of the...

complementary hypothesis

reciprocity norm

mere-exposure effect

Question 20: The finding that people pair of with others who are equally as attractive is known as

the matching phenomenon

complementarity

the reciprocity effect

Gause's law

Question 21: Shared goals that necessitate cooperative effort are said to be...

reciprocal

superordinate

equitable

companionate

Question 22: The _______ is the shared view that people should obey those with legitimate authority.

reactance

influence of behavioral norms

norm of obediance

normative control

Question 23: Research has indicated that the number of suicides increases following ...

well publicized suicides

the Olympic games

a world war

an economic recession

Question 24: The author of cognitive dissonance theory was

Wicker

Bem

Bandura

Festinger

Question 25: Both acting and believing in accord with social pressure is called...

acceptance

reactance

compliance

interaction

Question 26: When freely chosen action violate important or self-relevant attitudes, the inconsistancy produces an uncomfortable state of tension and arousal termed _______

Indirect influence

cognitive dissonance

Normative influence

Informational influence

Question 27: Research indicates that crowding hampers performance on _________ tasks.

verbal

motor

simple

difficult

Question 28: Which process helps explain both social loafing and deindividuation?

group polarization

diffusion of responsibility

supplemental skill development

self censorship

Question 29: How social pressure may lead us to perform immoral acts is best illustrated by studies of...

psychological reactance

spontaneous self-concept

informational influence

obedience to authority

Question 30: Believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group, and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups is called_______.

conservatism.

ethnocentrism.

scapegoating.

ingroup authoritarianism.

Question 31: The mode of thinking that persons engage in when concurrance-seeking becomes so dominant in a cohesive in-goupthat it tends to override realistic appraisal of alternative courses of action is called_______.

groupthink

Question 32: Self-discrepancy theory describes how people compare the self with others.

True

False

Question 33: A social group is two or more people who share some common characteristic that is socially meaningful for themselves OR for others.

True

False

Question 34: Self-discrepancy theory is the difference between who we think we actually are and our self-guides; this influences our emotional well-being and ultimately our self-esteem.

True

False

Question 35: Emotions are sparked by interpretations of self-relevant events and their causes.

True

False