1. The concept of cognitive Dissonance was proposed by
Correct : C. Festinger.
2. __________ is a branch that study the origin, development, structure, and functioning of social
groups
Correct : A. Sociology.
3. __________ is the key to uncovering causal relationships between variables.
Correct : B. Experimental Method.
4. __________ is the treatment variable that is manipulated by the experimenter.
Correct : D. Independent variable.
5. Which of the following is not a core value that the field of social psychology is committed to?
Correct : C. Intuition.
6. Social psychology seeks to understand __________ in social situations.
Correct : D. Both A and B.
7. Which of the following factors that can affect an individual’s behavior in social settings?
Correct : D. All of the above are correct.
8. Social psychologists currently view cognition and behavior as
Correct : C. Two intimately and continuously linked concepts.
9. The practice of systematic observation is a(n) __________ practice of observation.
Correct : D. Both A and C.
10. If a researcher wanted to determine how consumers felt about a particular detergent, he would
ideally use which research method?
Correct : B. The survey method.
11. Which of the following represents the strongest correlation
Correct : C. -.91
12. Which of the following elements does an experiment require to be considered successful?
Correct : D. Both A and C are correct.
13. A testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between event is
Correct : A. Hypothesis.
14. The study of the naturally occurring relationship among variables is
Correct : B. Correlational research.
15. The procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of
inclusion is
Correct : D. Random sample.
16. A person’s answer to the question “who am I” is
Correct : B. Self concept.
17. Beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant information is
Correct : C. Self-schema.
18. The term “possible selves” does not include
Correct : B. Self-esteem.
19. Self-esteem is
Correct : D. A person’s overall evaluation of oneself.
20. The art of expressing oneself in ways designed to create a favourable impression is
Correct : A. Self-presentation.
21. __________ is defined as the study of how we form impression of and make inferences about
other people
Correct : A. Social perception.
22. __________ states that first impression are very important
Correct : D. Primacy effect.
23. __________ is the extent to which other people behave in the same way in similar situation.
Correct : B. Consensus.
24. The originator of message or the information source selects desire message.
Correct : A. Sender.
25. “ABX” model of communication was proposed by
Correct : C. Newcomb.
26. __________ model describes the circular process of communication with feedback from the
receiver.
Correct : A. De Fleur.
27. __________ refers to vocal communication that is separate from actual language
Correct : B. Paralinguistics.
28. Communication through touch is known as
Correct : C. Haptics.
29. __________ proposed the Helical Model of communication
Correct : A. Frank Dance.
30. __________ Model of communication is used to enhance the individual’s perception on others.
Correct : B. Johari Window Model.
31. __________ bias occurs the sample studied in an experiment does not correctly represent the
population the researcher wants to draw conclusions about
Correct : B. Sample bias.
32. Mental summaries that are abstracted from repeated observation of other’s behavior
Correct : D. Abstractions
33. Information Integration Theory was developed by
Correct : A. Norman Anderson.
34. Internal attributions are often referred to as
Correct : C. Dispositional.
35. In Johari window model, information about yourself that others know in a group but you will
unaware of it is known as __________.
Correct : A. Blind self.
36. __________ refers to concrete example of behavior others have performed that are consistent
with a given traits
Correct : B. Exemplars.
37. According to Kelley __________ is the extent to which the person behaves like this every time
the situation occurs
Correct : A. Consistency.
38. Which is true of social stereotypes?
Correct : C. Likable members of a rejected group are perceived as an “exception.”
39. Social psychologists and personality psychologists differ in that
Correct : C. Social psychologists focus on the power of the situation to shape behavior.
40. The idea that we will protect our self-esteem by attempting to justify past behavior leads to the
prediction that
Correct : D. Choosing to go through an unpleasant experience will lead us to value the outcomes of that experience.
41. People would be less likely to help a man who fainted in a busy shopping mall, but more likely
to help a man who fainted small convenience store. This behavior explains
Correct : A. Bystander effect.
42. Jones and Davis suggest that we arrive at a correspondent inference by processing three kinds of
information. Which of the following is not one of the three they suggest
Correct : A. Multiple instances.
43. The advantages of the co-variation model compared to correspondent inference theory are that it can account for __________ instances of behavior and that it can explain __________ attributions as
well. The appropriate blanks are
Correct : D. Multiple, external.
44. The fundamental attribution error is thought to occur due to
Correct : B. Perceptual salience.
45. The actor observer-bias states that we are more likely to make __________ attributions or our
own behavior and __________ attributions for someone else’s behavior. The appropriate blanks are
Correct : C. External, internal.
46. According to the self-serving attribution bias, when you have just failed a test you are most
likely to make what kind of attribution?
Correct : B. External.
47. There is a perspective in social cognition that suggest that perceives are reluctant to expend
cognitive resources and look for any opportunity to avoid doing so. This perspective is known as
Correct : A. The cognitive miser perspective.
48. They are time-saving mental shortcuts that reduce complex judgements to simple rules of thumb. They are quick and easy, but can result in biased information processing. They are known as
Correct : B. Heuristics.
49. The tendency to judge the frequency or probability of an event in terms of how easy it is to
think of examples of that event is known as
Correct : A. The availability heuristic.
50. The tendency to exaggerate how common one’s own opinions are in the general population is
known as
Correct : C. The false-consensus effect.
51. The process of understanding what something is by knowing what other things it is equivalent
to, and what other things it is different from” describes the process of
Correct : B. Categorization.
52. __________ __________ describes the belief that two variables are associated with one another
when in fact there is a little or no actual association. The appropriate blanks are
Correct : A. Illusory correlation.
53. Behavior that is valued by others in a particular culture is known as:
Correct : A. Prosocial behavior.
54. Helping behavior:
Correct : C. Includes actions that benefit others and the self in the same instance.
55. Which of the following normative beliefs provides an explanation for why we have a tendency
to help others?
Correct : A. Social responsibility.
56. The belief people have that the world is a fair place where good things happen to good people
and bad things happen to bad people leads perceivers to be:
Correct : C. More likely to help those who are not responsible for their situation.
57. When an individual observes another person in an emergency and actively decides to help that
person, this is known as
Correct : B. Bystander intervention.
58. The failure to act in an emergency due to concern over what other people will think of you and/or because you think the situation isn’t an emergency because no-one else is reacting is known
as
Correct : A. Audience inhibition.
59. Which of the following people are less likely to help?
Correct : D. Those who are low in social responsibility.
60. In general __________ moods __________ helping behavior. The most appropriate blanks are
Correct : C. Bad, decrease.
61. The idea that if we empathise with someone in need we are more likely to help them is known
as
Correct : D. The empathy-altruism hypothesis.
62. The state of arousal that is victim-focused, involving feelings of sympathy and compassion for
the sufferer, is known as
Correct : B. Empathic concern.
63. A perceiver is more likely to feel empathy when the victim is
Correct : A. Similar to them
64. The term that describes our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in relation to other individuals is
Correct : B. Interpersonal relation
65. The idea that our need for affiliation is satisfied by aligning our desire for privacy with our
actual level of contact is outlined by the
Correct : C. Privacy regulation theory
66. People generally prefer other people whose faces are
Correct : B. Symmetric
67. The matching hypothesis says that couples who are matched in terms of __________ will be
better suited to one another
Correct : A. Attractiveness
68. The way in which we compare ourselves to others in order to provide our attitudes and behavior
with validity is known as:
Correct : B. Social comparison
69. The idea of complementarity suggests that a perceiver may find someone who is powerful
attractive because __________. The most appropriate blanks are
Correct : B. They are not powerful
70. Knowing that another person likes us might increase our attraction to them via
Correct : C. A self-fulfilling prophecy
71. Scientific research in social psychology began around the end of the
Correct : C. 1800’s
72. Relative to individuals with low self-esteem, individuals with high self-esteem are
Correct : B. More likely to react to rejection violently
73. Which of the following is least characteristic of research in social psychology between the
1930s and 1950s?
Correct : C. An integration of social and cognitive processes that determine behavior
74. Sociologists tend to study behavior at the __________ level, whereas the social psychologists
study behavior at the __________ level.
Correct : D. Group; individual
75. What factor does not initiate attraction?
Correct : A. Long distance
76. According to the text, geographical nearness is
Correct : C. Proximity
77. The tendency for novel stimuli to be liked more after the rater has repeatedly exposed to them is
Correct : B. The mere-exposure effect
78. Which of the following is supported by research on social attraction?
Correct : D. Familiarity produces fondness
79. The tendency for men and women to choose as partners those who are similar in attractiveness
and other traits is
Correct : D. Matching phenomenon
80. The presumption that physically attractive people possess other socially desirable traits is the
Correct : B. Physical-attractiveness stereotype
81. Opposites attract is an aspect of the
Correct : C. Complementary hypothesis
82. A motive to increase another’s welfare without conscious regard for one’s self-interests is
Correct : C. Altruism
83. The theory that human interactions are transactions that aim to maximize one’s rewards is
Correct : A. Social-exchange theory
84. A motive to increase one’s own welfare is
Correct : D. Egoism
85. An expectation that people will help those who have helped them is
Correct : C. Reciprocity norm
86. An expectation that people will help those dependent upon them is
Correct : A. Social-responsibility norm
87. The idea that evolution has selected altruism toward one’s close relatives to enhance the
survival of mutually shared genes is
Correct : B. Kin selection
88. The finding that a person is less likely to help when there are other people around is
Correct : A. The bystander effect
89. Which of the following moods is most likely to motivate altruism?
Correct : C. Guilt
90. According to the text, people are likely to help when
Correct : B. They feel happy
91. From an evolutionary perspective it would be most difficult to explain why
Correct : A. Someone risked his life to help a stranger
92. Attribution theory concerns our tendency to explain our behavior and that of others
Correct : B. By inferring causes on the basis of internal or external factors
93. When making the “attribution error,” we tend to overestimate the importance of __________
in judging the behavior of others.