Unit 4 - Social Psychology and Personality

A student fails a test and believes it is because the teacher made the test too difficult, rather than their own lack of preparation. Which type of attribution is the student using?

• Dispositional Attribution

• Situational Attribution

• Internal Locus of Control

• Central Route Persuasion

If a person attributes their success in a competition to their own hard work and talent, which concept does this best illustrate?

• External Locus of Control

• Internal Locus of Control

• Peripheral Route Persuasion

• Bystander Effect

A commercial uses a famous athlete to endorse a product, hoping viewers will be persuaded to buy it. Which persuasion technique is being used?

• Central Route Persuasion

• Peripheral Route Persuasion

• Drive Reduction Theory

• Cognitive Dissonance

A person feels uncomfortable because their actions do not match their beliefs. What psychological concept explains this discomfort?

• Deindividuation

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Conformity

• Actor-Observer Bias

When people in a group lose their sense of individual identity and act in ways they normally wouldn’t, which phenomenon is occurring?

• Bystander Effect

• Deindividuation

• Central Route Persuasion

• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

A person believes that luck and fate determine their outcomes in life. Which locus of control does this represent?

• Internal Locus of Control

• External Locus of Control

• Dispositional Attribution

• Central Route Persuasion

If someone explains another person’s rude behavior as a result of their personality, rather than considering situational factors, what type of attribution are they making?

• Situational Attribution

• Dispositional Attribution

• Bystander Effect

• Drive Reduction Theory

A person changes their answer on a test to match the majority, even though they believe their original answer was correct. What social psychology concept does this illustrate?

• Conformity

• Deindividuation

• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

• Actor-Observer Bias

A student expects to do poorly in math, and as a result, puts in little effort and ends up failing. Which concept does this scenario best demonstrate?

• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

• Bystander Effect

• Central Route Persuasion

• Cognitive Dissonance

When someone explains their own negative behavior by blaming the situation, but attributes others’ negative behavior to their character, which bias is this?

• Actor-Observer Bias

• Deindividuation

• Drive Reduction Theory

• Internal Locus of Control