UNIT 3 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW

Which is an example of social learning?

· A child with supportive parents will have a greater likelihood of behaving supportively in the future. · Tyler learned to speak after his parents reinforced closer and closer approximations of words. · None of these are examples of social learning. · After practicing his golf swing for two weeks, Jaime is more accurate.

___________ explanations for aggressive behavior include genetic predisposition, high testosterone level and frontal lobe damage.

· Biological · Cross-cultural · Cognitive · Social

How might a poker player exhibit a self-serving bias?

· By crediting a winning streak to his skills and a losing streak to a poor dealer · By attributing a winning streak to the poor play of others at the table · By blaming a losing streak on misplaying his cards · By crediting a fortunate deal for a win and blaming a poor deal on a loss · By taking personal credit for winning and personal responsibility for losing

Sternberg's triangular model of love included which of the following?

· Commitment, intimacy and passion · Commitment, friendship and passion · Friendship, passion and similarity · Intimacy, passion and similarity

Jeremy and his friends often wrestle when they get into arguments. The parents shrug off the boys' behavior as 'just getting it out of their system.' What is influencing the parents' perception of this type of aggression?

· Culture · Age · Gender · Genetics

Which is an example of aggression?

· Diane changes her behavior to meet social norms. · Bill accidentally trips another student at school and apologizes. · Amanda bonds with her newborn daughter. · Chris intentionally got into a fight with another student at school.

Which of the following attributes indicate cross-cultural attractiveness?

· Having youthful facial features · Being tall and thin · Having several children · Being successful

Derek leaves the movie theater feeling very dissatisfied after viewing the latest installment in his favorite series. This installment wasn't interesting and Derek almost got up and left halfway through. Which of the following possible responses might demonstrate the fundamental attribution error on Derek's part?

· He blames the performance on the movie director's ineptness. · He notes that the main character has aged in this installment. · He decides he shouldn't ever attend another movie without having eaten dinner first. · He blames himself for attending a showing on the first night of the movie's release. · He decides to avoid movie theaters in general following the experience.

Julie demonstrates ____________ by changing her behavior in social situations to meet social norms so people will like her.

· Informational conformity · Minority influence · Unanimous beliefs · Normative conformity

Which is an example of drive theory?

· Joanne thinks playing piano is easy and performs best in front of an audience. · Thomas thinks playing trumpet is difficult and does not always play his part when in a group. · Charles thinks playing the drums is difficult but he performs better in front of an audience. · The band usually moves toward consensus and conformity rather than what may be the best plan of action.

You attend a presentation on the topic of the triangular model of love. The speakers identifies three important aspects of love: passion, intimacy and commitment. Which psychologist's research most likely formed the basis for the presentation?

· Lawrence Kohlberg · Howard Gardner · Sigmund Freud · Robert Sternberg

You attend a research presentation in which the speaker states that our prejudices are based on individual experiences that occur during our development. Which theory is the speaker's presentation most likely based upon?

· Motivational Theory · Personality Theory · Cognitive Theory · Evolutionary Theory

Social identity refers to __________.

· Prejudices that are based on personal experiences that occur during development · The drive for success that motivates people to form prejudices about their competitors · Our membership in particular groups, which largely determines our everyday interactions · All of the answers are correct.

_____________ psychology studies group behavior and how we interact in social situations.

· Social · Developmental · Clinical · Industrial

How might a sales professional integrate social psychology into their strategy?

· Social psychology would be used when designing display cases for the products being marketed. · He or she might incorporate persuasion techniques that have been shown to influence people. · By conducting hundreds of surveys to determine the psychological effects of the product they are trying to sell · By developing a psychological profile of the typical customer who would be interested in their product.

_________ involves the tendency to celebrate our own success as an indication of our internal abilities and failure as a result of external factors.

· The just world hypothesis · The fundamental attribution error · An internal locus of control · Self-serving bias

Joe recently lost his job. Jenny is his good friend and offers to set him up with an interview at her work. After Joe happily agrees to the job opportunity, Jenny asks him if he would mind babysitting her daughter the following week. What persuasion strategy is Jenny using?

· The reciprocity norm · The lowball technique · The coercive persuasion · The scarcity principle

In Stanley Milgram's experiment on obedience and authority, the participants believed the responsibility for the shocks fell to:

· Their fellow participants · Themselves · The machine · The authority figure

Why were Solomon Asch's experiments on conformity so important?

· They clearly demonstrated the power of conformity. · They clearly demonstrated the absence of herd behavior in 1950s America. · They pointed toward a gender difference in personal interests that impacted conformity. · They pointed toward the absence of a cultural role inconformity. · They clearly demonstrated the limitations of conformity.

Which of the following statements is true about attractiveness?

· Very few cultures have identified characteristics of attractiveness. · None of the answer choices is correct. · Different cultures have varying ideas about the characteristics that make a person attractive. · All characteristics of attractiveness are the same across cultures.

According to Reactance Theory, a high school student might be inclined to

· be early to class · sit in the back of the classroom · skip a class · study for a test

Social exchange theory posits that we will help others until_________________.

· continuing to be altruistic would hurt us in some way · we've helped everyone with whom we're close · we're not getting the same amount of help in return · someone else arrives to help

While deciding on how to approach a battle, an army unit that is exhibiting groupthink might __________.

· develop a stronger plan through rigorous debate · brainstorm alternatives to the dominant plan · endanger themselves with a risky but agreed-upon plan · foolishly follow the will of a vocal member of the group

Heidi believes that bad things happen to bad people and that people get what they deserve. This is an example of the __________________ hypothesis.

· just world · judgmental activity · false blame · deserving punishment

Geneticist Dmitri Belyaev's experiments with selective breeding has shown that aggression is_________.

· not genetic · entirely genetic · partly genetic · a learned behavior

According to social identity theory, we perceive __________________.

· our ingroup as heterogeneous and our outgroup as homogenous · both our ingroup and our outgroup as heterogeneous · our ingroup as homogenous and our outgroup as heterogeneous · our ingroup as one homogenous group and our outgroup as a separate homogenous group

Cognitive Dissonance Theory describes what occurs when ____________.

· rationalization isn't possible · unconscious beliefs are confirmed · a person is unconsciously opposed to someone or something · beliefs are in conflict

When in a new situation, Cecilia makes a judgment by processing new information and comparing it to her past experiences. What type of judgment did she mostly likely make?

· stereotype · monotype · fundamental attribution error · reflexive

Several close friends decide to invest their money together in a business. The business is risky, but as the friends discuss their investment strategy, they achieve consensus and conformity. This is an example of _____________.

· think-tank theory · drive theory · groupthink · group polarization

Helping others is considered __________________.

· unrelated to biology · a biological instinct that furthers evolution · a cultural instinct that hampers evolution · a recent cultural phenomenon