Social Psychology actual questions Flashcards
The results showed that people were less likely to report the smoke when they were with others than when there were alone…
the results were consistent with the hypothesis but it needs to be tested again (woman experiment) and there is an alternative explanation.
social factors are important for psychological processes because experiments have demonstrated that…
people behave differently when even a minimal social relationship is present and when their social relationship is removed from them (both a and b)
when excluded in the cybermall experiment he or she reports low levels of..
all of the above
social exclusion and rejection are said to “hurt” which of the following is true about this statement…
none of the above are true
Bystander intervention
working out BOTH the rewards AND the cost of helping is important
systematic processing of information…
you must have
.enough cognitive resources to process the information and enough motivation
peoples judgements about personalities and abilities based on photos of others faces are…
judgements after 100 ms are often as accurate as their considered judgements
peoples impressions about a target person…
impressions are formed on the basis of the cues associated with the target person
what is true about a correspondence bias…
people from some cultural backgrounds show a greater extent of this bias than others
internal attributions are:
beliefs that something inside the person who performed the behaviour has caused the behaviour
correction process is
NOT AUTOMATIC (FALSE)
what is true about impression formation
according to solomon asch…
peoples impressions about a target person can…
generate the target person’s behaviour that is consistent with those impressions
impression cycle refers to…
self perpetuating loop
according to william james,
Physical self is part of ME
human babies have the ability to be aware of oneself in the mirror by the age of…
about 2
culture and self (false question)
Australians are NOT MORE LIKELY TO HAVE INDEPENDENT SELF CONSTRUAL THAN AMERICANS AS BOTH INDIVIDUALISTIC CULTURES
the sense of one’s self is concerned with…
personal identity
example of an attitude
I DONT LIKE CUSTARD
according to the theory of reasoned action—
the best one to choose
— attitudes toward the rock bank playing at the concert on this saturday
attitude behaviour consistency
attitudes tend to predict consistent behaviour when attitudes are accessible
which one is false about theories of reason action and planned behaviour
theory of reasoned action includes perceived behavioural control as its important component…
“i dislike X because it makes me feel bad about myself”
serving a self esteem maintenance function
what is true about cognitive dissonance theory
it is a negative state which motivates us to reduce it
what did La Piere’s famous study show
attitudes failing to predict a specific behaviour
what condition is best to produce an accessible attitude
if the child is very young
attitudes are unlikely to change if
the induced behaviour is incongruent with the existing attitudes
which of the following is TRUE about festinger and carlsmith —>
a greater attitude change was observed in the $1 condition than in the $20 condition
the elaboration likelihood model suggests that:
when people have lots of cognitive resources, but unwilling to process the information deeply, they tend to be persuaded by peripheral cues such as source attractiveness
a norm that can be known to exist when it is violated is
a taken for granted norm
group members should…
share a common definition about what their group is
nations need
knowledge functions
highly centralised positions mean
that everyone occupies a central position
according to steiner’s model of group performance which one is FALSE
group performance can never exceed the potential set by group members
“i don’t want to do what she told me, but i have to”
a normative influence
which one is false about the asch type conformity situation
the conformity rate is higher in individualist cultures than in collectivist cultures
moreland and levies theory is not…
applicable to all groups
group polarisation is…
going to occur in part because group members change their opinions in line with other group members’ opinions
what is true about a transactional leader
their leadership is based on individualised consideration and contingent reward
which one is FALSE about collective behaviour
deindividuation does not always result in aggression
prejudice and discrimination
ALL TRUE
in a minimal group paradigm
people shared more with their in-group that out group members
Berkam and Syme
found that those who were more integrated in society have lower morality rates
intergroup contact DOES NOT
always reduce stereotypes and prejudices
