Exam 2 textbook questions Flashcards
Which of these emotions is not one of the core six, recognizable by the same facial expressions across cultures?
a) fear
b) anger
c) sympathy
d) disgust
Sympathy
Why are we bad at detecting deception?
a) we assume people are honest
b) we don’t attend to cues that would reveal deception
c) we aren’t lied to very often so we don’t have much experience with it
d) we endorse stereotypes about what nonverbal behaviors mean
We assume people are honest
When are we more likely to make a dispositional attribution?
a) if we are from a collectivistic culture
b) when we are judging our own behavior
c) when we have a high need for cognition
d) when we are judging others’ behavior
When we are judging others’ behavior
Which of these influences impressions the least?
a) primacy
b) concentration
c) recency
d) centrality of that trait to personality
Concentration
Belief in a just world doesn’t arise from:
a) a desire to believe that things happen for a reason
b) a belief that we are good, so good things should happen to us
c) efforts to ameliorate anxiety about our futures
d) depressive episodes
Depressive episodes
How long does it take to form an impression of someone?
a) as soon as we learn one fact about that person
b) 0.1 second after exposure
c) as soon as we learn one central feature of that person
d) one second after exposure
0.1 second after exposure
Why did changing a person’s description from including “warm” to including “cold” have such a profound effect on impressions of that person in Asch’s 1946 study?
a) because it was presented last
b) because it was central to personality
c) because people were asked to form impressions based on all the words
d) because people focus on visceral words
Because it was central to personality
Exposure to a beautiful face can do all of these except:
a) activate other positive things in memory
b) make you more helpful toward that person
c) make you more helpful in general
d) make women portray themselves as less intelligent
Make you more helpful in general
You meet an employee in your company who is described as “diligent”. You later remember them as being hardworking. This is an example of:
a) the halo effect
b) confirmation bias
c) correspondence bias
d) the primacy effect
The halo effect
In the study by Snyder and Swann (1978), if a participant believed that a target person was an introvert, what kind of questions would the participant ask the target?
a) questions about introverted activities
b) questions about extroverted activities
c) questions about their hobbies
d) none; since the person was not socially oriented, there was no point
Questions about introverted activities
Which of these methods is best at measuring implicit attitudes?
a) observation
b) self-report
c) introspection
d) the IAT
d) the IAT
Which of these events are we most likely to remember?
a) the A we got in social psych
b) the F we got in social psych
c) the sound of a clock ticking
d) the hue of the color magenta
b) the F we got in social psych
You are afraid of thunder. I decide that every time there is a thunderstorm, I will make you hold a rabbit. Now you also fear rabbits. The rabbit is the:
a) unconditioned stimulus
b) unconditioned response
c) conditioned stimulus
d) conditioned response
c) conditioned stimulus
You make me a delicious dinner. Since I want more dinners made for me, I bring you wine and smile a lot when you cook for me. What am I doing?
a) positive reinforcement
b) negative reinforcement
c) positive punishment
d) negative punishment
a) positive reinforcement
Cognitive dissonance causes people to strive to diminish which personality trait?
a) guilt
b) hypocrisy
c) fear
d) prejudice
b) hypocrisy
Why do implicit attitudes influence behavior?
a) because associations in memory are activated outside of awareness
b) because we endorse implicit attitudes
c) because we mimic these attitudes in others
d) implicit attitudes don’t influence behavior
a) because associations in memory are activated outside of awareness
Hotel owners didn’t keep the Chinese couple from staying t the hotels in the research by LaPiere (1934). Which is LEAST likely to be the reason?
a) the couple was kind
b) the couple spoke ‘proper english’
c) the generality of the stereotype versus the specificity of the couple
d) the owners didn’t really mean it when they said they wouldn’t admit a Chinese couple
d) the owners didn’t really mean it when they said they wouldn’t admit a Chinese couple
Which influences the impact of attitudes on behavior the least?
a) strength of the attitude
b) specificity of the attitude
c) superordinance of the attitude
d) accessibility of the attitude
c) superordinance of the attitude
When you act in a way that’s different from how you believe you should, you:
a) change your behavior
b) change your attitude
c) a or b, depending on whether or not the behavior can be changed and the strength of the attitude
d) neither a nor b
c) a or b, depending on whether or not the behavior can be changed and the strength of the attitude
What is the best way to get others to listen to your opinions, based on attitude research?
a) talk louder
b) allow them to do something affirming their beliefs
c) try to provide proof for your opinions
d) show them that most people share your opinion
b) allow them to do something affirming their beliefs
Which of the following is not a trait of a typical group
a) similar beliefs
b) anger over perceived injustices
c) cohesion
d) the presence of leaders and followers
b) anger over perceived injustices
Which psychological researcher is credited with being the first to study the theory of social facilitation?
a) Baron
b) Ringelmann
c) Zajonc
d) Triplett
d) Triplett
Which of the following is not a reason that social loafing occurs?
a) the feeling of less accountability
b) less pressure to perform when others will pick up the slack
c) the fear of performing when there’s an audience
d) the feeling that the individual’s contribution isn’t important
c) the fear of performing when there’s an audience
Which term describes the tendency for a person in a group to lose self-awareness and go along with the group
a) deindividuation
b) social loafing
c) bargaining
d) social facilitation
a) deindividuation
