WorksheetsAP Social Psychology 2019
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 15mins
The "fundamental attribution error" phenomenon can best be seen in which of the following examples
John blames his failure to get a job on his lack of appropriate skills and ill preparedness
Phyllis doesn't get the lead in the school play and blames her drama teacher for this failure.
Jane blames herself for forgetting that she has a term paper due in two days
Bill doesn't hire John bc he believes that John's lateness is a result of John's laziness & lack of respect for the job. In reality, John was late bc he got a flat tire on the way to the interview
Karen understands that her friend is late because she was caught in rush hour traffic.
In the Asch conformity experiments, which of these was NOT a consistent factor influencing the degree to which conformity to the group answer would be shown by the experimental subject?
Unanimity of group opinion
Size of the group
The subject's perception of his/her social status
Age of the subject
Students are randomly designated by experimenters as likely to experience significant jumps in academic test scores in the coming semester, & this designation is communicated to their teachers. when actual test scores are examined at the end of the semester, it is found that these randomly designated students did indeed tend to experience jumps in performance. This phenomenon is known as
Hawthorne effect
Ainsworth effect
Cognitive dissonance
self fulfilling prophecy
An old woman carrying a number of packages has tripped and fallen on a busy urban sidewalk and is having trouble getting back up. The fact that few people are likely to stop and offer her help is referred to by social psychologists as an example of
altruistic orientation
illusory correlation
diffusion of responsibility (by stander effect)
just world phenomenon
Which of the following would illustrate the "foot in the door" technique of facilitating compliance with a request?
A mother wishing to get her twins to do their homework each day upon coming home from school and before other activities tells each of them separately that the other twin has agreed to do just that.
A teacher wishing all her students to get their assignments in on time promises her class extra grading points for turning them in early.
A teenager, wanting to extend his curfew from 10pm to midnight, first asks if it can be extended to 11pm for a specific "special occasion; he then plans to ask for the further extension at a later date after pointing out to his parents he was able to handle the 11pm curfew.
A professional fundraiser, needing to get $10,000 from a foundation, first requests four times that amount, expecting to be turned down so that she can then ask for the lesser amount.
According to Attribution Theory, which of the following is an example of the self serving bias?
A man does not have health insurance, but is not worried bc he is young and healthy.
A woman knows a man who does not have insurance. The man gets into a car accident, & medical expenses cause him to lose his home. She wonders why he didn't have insurance.
A toddler builds a tall tower with blocks and says "Me good!" when she completes the tower. However, she bumps it and it falls down. She frowns and says "Bad blocks!"
A hurricane devastates an area of Mississippi & many residents seek grief counseling.
A group of 5 students & a group of 3 students all roughly the same size & strength, engage in a game of tug of war. The game is equal for a long while, neither side immediately gaining an advantage. This is most likely an example of
social loafing
dehumanization
conformity
social faciliatation
A child tries to get a raise on his weekly allowance. When he first approaches his parents, he asks for $100 per wk. His parents scoff & tell him this out of the question. Then, he asks for $50 per wk, & receives the same reply. Finally, he ask for $10 per wk & his parents agree. This is an example of
foot in the door phenomenon
central route of persuasion
peripheral route of persuasion
door in the face phenoomenon
Stanley Milgram's study involving the "teacher", learner, & experimenter tested which of the following principles?
Conformitity
Groupthink
Role playing
obedience
Albert Bandura's famous Bobo Doll experiment shows the power of
Observation
conformity
hositle aggression
instrumental aggression
Which of the following suggestions is most likely to reduce the hostility felt bw antagonistic groups?
force the groups to spend alot of time together
encourage the groups to avoid each other as much as possible
give the groups a task that cannot be solved unless they work together.
punish the groups whenever they treat each other badly.
On Monday, Tonya asked her teacher to postpone Tuesday's test until Friday. After her teacher flatly refused Tonya asked the teacher to push the test back one day, to Wednesday. Tonya is using the compliance strategy known as
foot in the door
Norms of reciprocity
strategic bargaining
door in the face
In the Milgram studies, the dependent measure was the
highest level of shock supposedly administered
location of the learner
length of the line
number of people in the group.
The tendency of people to look toward others for cues about the appropriate way to behave when confronted by an emergency is know as
conformity
diffusion of responsibility
pluralistic ignorance
modeling
Advertisements are made more effective when the communicators are
I. attractive
II. famous
III. perceived as experts.
II only
III only
I, II, III
I and II
Your new neighbor seems to know everything about ancient Greece that your social studies teacher says during the first week of school. You conclude that she is brilliant. you do not consider that she might already have learned about ancient Greece in her old school. You are evidencing.
self fulfilling prophecy
pluralistic ignorance
confirmation bias
fundamental attribution error
In Asch's conformity study, approximately what percentage of participants gave at least one incorrect response?
30
40
50
60
70
Jamie has always hated the color orange. However, once she became a student at Princeton, she began to wear a lot of orange Princeton Tiger clothing. The discomfort caused by her long standing dislike of the color orange & her current ownership of so much orange & black striped clothing is known as
cognitive dissonance
opposing conginitions
inconsistent ideas
conflicting motives
When Paul had his first oboe solo in the orchestra concert, his performance was far worse than it was when he rehearsed at home. A phenomenon that helps explain Paul's poor performance is known as
social loafing
groupthink
social inhibition (impairment)
deindividuation
Kelley's attribution theory says that people use which of the following kinds of information in explaining events?
conformity, reliability, and validity
consensus, consistence, distinctiveness,
uniquesness, explanatory power, logic
distinctiveness, conformity, and salience
After your school's football team has a big win, students in the halls can be heard saying "we are awesome." The next week, after the team loses to the last place team in the league, that same students lament that "They were terrible", The difference in these comments illustrates
fundamental attribution error
self serving bias
self fulfilling prophecy
conformity
Which of the following is the best example of prejudice?
Tommy will not let girls play on his hockey team
Sam dislikes cheerleaders
Alice says she can run faster than anybody on the playground.
Jeri thinks all Asians are smart
On their second date, Mary confides in Frank that she still loves to watch Rugrats. He in turn, tells her that he still cries when he watches Bambi. These 2 young lovers will be brought closer together through this process of
self disclosure
in-group bias
dual sharing
deindividuation
Rosenthal and Jacobson's "Pygmalion in the Classroom" study showed that
people's expectations of others can influence the behavior of others.
attitudes are not always good predictors of behavior
contact is not sufficient to break down prejudices
people like to think that others get what they deserve
On the first day of class, Mr. Simpson divides his class into 4 competing groups. On the 5th day of school, Matt was sent to the principal for kicking members of the other groups. Mr. Simpson can be faulted for encouraging the creation of
group polarization
out group bias
superordinate goals
group think
