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PSYCH 312 Social_Psycology_Exam_1 revised practice Questions and Answers • Question 1 3 out of 3 points The authors of your text present a study by Masuda and his colleagues (2008) that exa... mined cultural differences in social perception. They compared how participants perceived a central character when the surrounding characters in a picture either matched or mismatched the central character's facial expression. Which group of participants spent more time looking at people in the periphery? • Question 2 3 out of 3 points Harold Kelley's covariation model is one ________ theory presented in your text. • Question 3 3 out of 3 points When do individuals in collectivist cultures make dispositional (internal) attributions? • Question 4 3 out of 3 points Hong and colleagues (2003) primed bicultural students with American, Chinese, or neutral images and had them make attributions about why a fish was swimming in front of other fish. What was the independent variable of this experiment? • Question 5 3 out of 3 points Which of the following facial expressions does NOT belong? • Question 6 3 out of 3 points The six major facial expressions discussed in the text are widely considered to be • Question 7 3 out of 3 points Samuel, a fifth grader, had to write an essay about how wonderful the mayor was and how much good he had done for the town. Samuel's dad was very upset with him after reading the essay because his dad didn't really like the mayor. Samuel's dad was mad that Samuel disagreed with him, even when Samuel told him he was forced to write the essay. Samuel is in a similar situation as participants in Jones and Harris (1967) study. Samuel's dad is • Question 8 3 out of 3 points When people make the fundamental attribution error, they tend to • Question 9 3 out of 3 points Professor DeVeaux reads an essay in which a student argues in favor of full nuclear war to resolve the conflict in the Middle East. Initially she thinks, "Whoa, what an extremist!" Then she recalls that the student had been assigned to advocate nuclear war as part of the assignment. Why would Professor DeVeaux still be likely to view the student as a political extremist? • Question 10 3 out of 3 points If research by Pronin and colleagues regarding the bias blind spot applies to you, who would you think is least susceptible to making self-serving attributions? • Question 11 3 out of 3 points How did Latané and Darley (1968) vary the number of bystanders in their experimental study of the effects of the number of witnesses exposed to an emergency? • Question 12 3 out of 3 points Observational research allows a researcher to • Question 13 3 out of 3 points Dr. Winstell is interested in studying prejudice, and devises a study in which Caucasian participants are led to believe that they are chatting electronically with an African-American participant. In reality, the participants are responding to another Caucasian participant, and she discloses this information to all participants at the end of the study. Dr. Winstell has used ________ in her study. • Question 14 3 out of 3 points A psychologist first conducted a study on helping behavior with a sample of college undergraduates. This psychologist then replicated the study using the same procedure with a different participant sample. If similar results were obtained with both samples, this experimenter has demonstrated • Question 15 3 out of 3 points If a researcher is concerned with having high external validity in their study, she should design a • Question 16 3 out of 3 points Because evolutionary psychology is based on assumptions of conditions thousands of years ago that led to the reproductive success of some more so than others, it makes evolutionary hypotheses • Question 17 3 out of 3 points Which of the following would be most likely to share a research lab and equipment with the biology department or medical school? • Question 18 3 out of 3 points ________ would increase the external validity of experiments, but social psychologists rarely do it. • Question 19 3 out of 3 points Maisie was very upset after she participated in an experiment. During the _______, the researcher made sure that she understood that the situation was not real, and made sure that Maisie was calm and happy before leaving. • Question 20 3 out of 3 points Research in which a representative sample of people are asked questions about their attitudes or behavior is called • Question 21 3 out of 3 points Consider the following self-description: "I have blue eyes and brown hair. I have two sisters. I hate vegetables, but I love ice cream." Such a self-description was most likely provided by the typical • Question 22 3 out of 3 points Women are most often awarded custody of their children because of the belief that they are the best custodians of children, even though we know that women commit infanticide and abuse. Our belief represents • Question 23 3 out of 3 points Considering the research on reasons-generated attitude change, in which case would you expect the greatest consistency between the person's attitude and their future behavior? • Question 24 3 out of 3 points Recall that Dutton and Aron (1974) had an attractive confederate approach men either on a high, narrow, swaying suspension bridge, or else on the other side of the bridge where they were sitting. More men called the woman after she approached them on the scary bridge. Why? • Question 25 3 out of 3 points Reading programs that are intended to encourage children to read more by paying them to read books is an example of using • Question 26 3 out of 3 points According to research by Dweck, a ________ is more likely to promote success both athletically and academically. • Question 27 3 out of 3 points When Daphne goes on an interview, she does her best to present herself well and put her best foot forward. Which function of the self is exemplified in this situation? • Question 28 3 out of 3 points According to the text, the existence of Japanese benriya or "convenience agencies," which rent guests for weddings, funerals, and lectures, suggests that the • Question 29 3 out of 3 points Recall Schachter and Singer's study in which participants were given an injection, then exposed to either a very happy or very angry confederate, then asked about their mood. Which of the following is an independent variable in this study? • Question 30 3 out of 3 points Mrs. Hill has decided to provide her first-grade students with gold stars to reward them for reading. She has decided to use performance-contingent rewards. However, in using these, she must also be careful to ________ so that using the rewards does not backfire. • Question 31 3 out of 3 points Which of the following people have fallen prey to the fundamental attribution error? • Question 32 3 out of 3 points Professor Takahami is a personality psychologist interested in divorce. Which question is she most likely to investigate? • Question 33 3 out of 3 points According to the authors of your text, why did behaviorists not incorporate cognition, thinking, and feeling into their theory? • Question 34 3 out of 3 points Josh and his friends have just started up a new fraternity on campus, and want to recruit men who will be loyal and love it. Based on the self-esteem approach, which initiation strategy would you recommend to Josh? • Question 35 3 out of 3 points Which of the following questions is a behaviorist most likely to ask? Selected Answer: What are the external rewards in this situation? • Question 36 3 out of 3 points According to the definition of social psychology presented in your text, social psychology is the study of how ________ affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of humans. • Question 37 3 out of 3 points When Suzie whines in a supermarket, her father gives her candy to keep her quiet. After a while, Suzie whines more often in the market because her father has "rewarded" her whining with candy. This explanation is more compatible with a ________ approach. • Question 38 3 out of 3 points Lisa and Melissa were comparing grades on their chemistry exam. Lisa was disappointed when she first saw that she had received a grade of 76 percent, but when she saw that Melissa (the class valedictorian in high school) had earned a grade of 78 percent, she felt much better about her grade. What is most likely to be a reason that Lisa changed her perspective? • Question 39 3 out of 3 points According to the authors of your text, when faced with a puzzling social question, it may be tempting to ask people why they behaved as they did. Why is this not always the best way to understand social behavior? • Question 40 3 out of 3 points Professor Hume has spent the last ten years studying the effects of people's levels of self-esteem on their tendency to discriminate against others. She is most likely to be a • Question 41 3 out of 3 points According to the authors of your text, how is it best to characterize humans as social thinkers? • Question 42 3 out of 3 points Marco is an athlete and plays three different types of sports. When he sees Emma in a track suit, he assumes that she is an athlete as well. The reason this happens is that Marco's schema is • Question 43 3 out of 3 points In trying to decide which of two classmates is smarter, you use the rule, "the faster people talk, the smarter they are," so you choose the classmate who talks faster. You have applied a ________ to decide who is smarter. • Question 44 3 out of 3 points Miyamoto and colleagues conducted a study in which participants viewed either photos of U.S. city scenes or Japanese city scenes, then were asked to detect differences between two similar pictures. The researchers found evidence that viewing Japanese city scenes • Question 45 3 out of 3 points Which of the following is NOT a typical example of the kind of knowledge that is contained in a schema? Your knowledge • Question 46 3 out of 3 points What is the major advantage of processing information automatically? • Question 47 3 out of 3 points Researchers asked some participants to think of six times they had behaved assertively and asked other participants to think of twelve times they had behaved assertively, and then asked all participants to rate how assertive they thought they really were. Participants who tried to generate six examples of assertive behaviors rated themselves as more assertive than did participants who tried to generate twelve examples. Why? Schwarz suggests that participants • Question 48 3 out of 3 points The availability heuristic is associated with which of the following characteristics of schemas? • Question 49 3 out of 3 points Researchers had participants memorize a number of words before reading an ambiguous passage about a character named Donald. The results of this study showed that people • Question 50 3 out of 3 points You stayed up all night cramming for this examination and didn't do as well as you had hoped. "If only I had started studying sooner and gotten a good night's rest, I'd have done much better," you think to yourself. You have just engaged in a [Show More]

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