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Social Psychology, 7/e
David G Myers, Hope College


Practice Mid-Term

Please answer all questions



1

Social psychology is
A)the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another.
B)the scientific study of how people act.
C)the scientific study of how people love and hate.
D)the scientific study of how people understand and conflict with one another.
2

The text states that values
A)enter the picture with our choice of research topics.
B)are unimportant in the study of social psychology.
C)do not influence the type of people attracted to various academic disciplines.
D)tell us which ones are right.
3

Hindsight bias
A)is conducive to an underestimation of our own intellectual powers.
B)shows that common sense is nearly always scientifically wrong.
C)is the tendency to exaggerate after learning an outcome.
D)is the tendency to see the objective situation incorrectly.
4

The procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion is
A)survey research.
B)equal sample.
C)controlled sample.
D)random sample.
5

Which is false according to the text. The American and British Psychological Associations
A)protect people from harm and significant discomfort.
B)tell potential participants enough about the experiment to enable their informed consent.
C)fully explain the experiment before preceding.
D)treat information about the individual participants confidentially.
6

Beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant information is
A)self-esteem
B)self-reference effect.
C)self-schema.
D)self-concept.
7

Self-esteem is
A)the total of our possible selves.
B)the sum of all our self-schemas.
C)the total sum of our thoughts about ourselves.
D)a person's overall evaluation of oneself.
8

Loewenstein and Schkade's research on determining how we will feel shows the following is true.
A)People underestimate how much their well-being would be effected by winning the state lottery.
B)People overestimate how much their well-being would be affected by losing weight.
C)Given devastating news, people do not cope well.
D)After adapting to good news, people feel as elated as they anticipated.
9

Which of the following is not true for people who have a sense of efficacy and feelings of control?
A)more alert
B)less activity
C)achieve more
D)cope better
10

The act of expressing oneself in ways designed to create a favorable impression is
A)self-presentation.
B)self-monitoring.
C)self-handicapping.
D)egocentric role-playing.
11

The theory of correspondent inferences states
A)people infer that other people's intentions and dispositions correspond to our intentions and dispositions.
B)people infer that other people's intentions and dispositions correspond to the group's intentions and dispositions.
C)people infer that other people have similar values.
D)people infer that other people's intentions and dispositions correspond to their actions.
12

Correspondence bias is
A)an illusory correlation.
B)counterfactual thinking.
C)fundamental attribution error.
D)hindsight error.
13

Memory construction allows us to
A)revise our own histories.
B)think automatically.
C)replicate reality.
D)see the truth of the situation.
14

Imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened, but didn't is
A)hindsight bias.
B)counterfactual thinking.
C)denial paradox.
D)inferential analysis.
15

The perception of a relationship where none exists is
A)belief assimilation phenomenon.
B)illusory correlation.
C)the Kulechov effect.
D)distinctiveness fallacy.
16

In response to external circumstances ___________________ people adjust their behavior.
A)intelligent
B)depressed
C)self-conscious
D)unintelligent
17

A variation of the foot-in-the-door phenomenon is the
A)bogus technique.
B)low-ball technique.
C)self-monitoring technique.
D)justification technique.
18

The term brainwashing describes what happened to American POWs during which war?
A)World War I
B)World War II
C)Korean War
D)Vietnam War
19

According to self-perception theory, behavior shapes attitudes
A)when attitudes are strong and consistent.
B)only in the area of legislation.
C)in self-monitoring people.
D)when attitudes are weak and ambiguous.
20

According to the text, which of the following are true of self-perception and cognitive dissonance theories?
A)Self-perception theory has more support and evidence.
B)Evidence exists to support both theories.
C)Cognitive dissonance theory has more support and evidence.
D)They are mutually exclusive; therefore one has to be correct.
21

According to the text, norms are
A)a set of roles.
B)models of social behavior.
C)prescriptions for proper behavior.
D)laws governing social behavior.
22

The characteristics, whether biologically or socially influenced, by which people define male and female is
A)gender norm.
B)gender role.
C)gender assignment.
D)gender.
23

Across the globe, men are how many times more likely to murder men than women murder women?
A)5
B)20
C)10
D)25
24

According to the text, gender difference does not exist in
A)vocabulary.
B)sexual initiative.
C)murder rate.
D)conversation style.
25

According to the text, you are more likely to smoke if
A)your parents smoke.
B)your brother smokes.
C)your sister smokes.
D)your friends smoke.
26

Conformity that involves both acting and believing in accord with social pressure is
A)compliance.
B)cohesiveness.
C)obedience.
D)acceptance.
27

Sherif's study using autokinetic phenomenon suggest
A)compliance.
B)acceptance.
C)obedience.
D)reactance.
28

When Milgram moved his experiment from Yale to Bridgeport, the number of people who complied
A)decreased from 63 percent to 25 percent.
B)decreased from 63 percent to 13 percent.
C)decreased from 63 percent to 48 percent.
D)remained about the same.
29

Conformity based on a person's desire to fulfill others' expectations is
A)nominal influence.
B)informational influence.
C)normative influence.
D)indirect influence.
30

Increasing the size of a group from 2 to _____is likely to produce the greatest increase in conformity.
A)5
B)10
C)25
D)100
31

According to the text, from 1978-1991 support for the marijuana's legalization among new collegians dropped from
A)50 to 21 percent.
B)65 to 39 percent.
C)81 to 56 percent.
D)41 to 11 percent.
32

Communicators who talk fast and are straightforward are likely to be perceived as
A)manipulative.
B)credible.
C)untrustworthy.
D)attractive.
33

The effect of fear-arousing communication is
A)fear renders the communication ineffective.
B)a low level of fear is effective, but a high level is counter productive.
C)generally the more fear people feel, the more effective the communication.
D)effective only with women.
34

The process by which media influence occurs through opinion leaders, who in turn influence others, is called
A)channels of communication.
B)the media effect.
C)the opinion leaders phenomenon.
D)the two-step flow of communication.
35

Which age group is most open to a cult's message?
A)under 25
B)between 21 and 25
C)between 25 and 35
D)over 35
36

People working simultaneously and individually on a noncompetitive task are called
A)social facilitators.
B)coactors.
C)group.
D)collective.
37

According to the text, the presence of others improved people's efficiency at
A)doing complex multiplication problems.
B)learning a foreign language.
C)learning nonsense words.
D)crossing out designated letters.
38

The loss of self-awareness and evaluation apprehension is called
A)the singleton effect.
B)the group awareness effect.
C)deindividuation.
D)group polarization.
39

According to the text, if a minority judges blue slides to be green
A)it has no effect on the judgments of the majority.
B)females but not males of the majority will occasionally agree.
C)members of the majority will occasionally agree.
D)males but not females of the majority will occasionally agree.
40

Groupthink is happening when members desire
A)control.
B)freedom.
C)harmony.
D)power.