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Social Psych Test 3

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Conforming to other people’s behavior publicly without necessarily believing in what the other people are doing or saying is:

a)

Social pressure

b)

Conformity

c)

Public compliance

d)

Private acceptance

2.

When we are in class and listening to the lecture, we learn independently. However, when we come together to work on our projects, we are a ___

a)

Team

b)

Organization

c)

Group

d)

Classmate

3.

Maliah just started a new job in construction. She does not know anyone, and it is time for lunch. She decides to sit with the other female construction workers. This is an example of?

a)

Out Group

b)

In Group

c)

Simpatía

d)

Altruistic personality

4.

What do most psychologist believe to be the worst way to eliminate aggressive or unwanted behavior?

a)

Soft punishment

b)

Harsh punishment

c)

Mild punishment

d)

All of the Above

5.

In Milgram’s 1963 study, ____ percent of subjects shocked all the way to 450 volts.

a)

65

b)

55

c)

75

d)

85

6.

The ideas that donating blood is good and littering is bad are examples of?

a)

Descriptive Norms

b)

Propaganda

c)

Inscriptive norms

d)

Stereotypes

7.

When considering volunteering, individuals are more likely to continue to volunteer when they feel like they have been _______ to volunteer rather than ________ to.

a)

Forced; Encouraged

b)

Required; Choosing

c)

Encouraged; Forced

d)

None of the Above

8.

Techniques like counting to ten, engaging in peaceful activities, expressing your feelings in a non confrontational manner and writing in a journal daily are all ways to?

a)

Deal with anger

b)

Become more self aware

c)

Strengthen relationships

d)

All of the Above

9.

_________ is a conflict caused when the most beneficial action for an individual will, if chosen by everyone, be harmful for everyone.

a)

Prisoners Dilemma

b)

Social dilemma

c)

Both A and B

d)

Resource Dilemma

10.

The three causes of the bystander effect defined by Darley and Latane are?

a)

Diffusion of Responsibility, Ambiguity and Ability

b)

Ambiguity, Ability and Mode of Helping

c)

Helping behavior, Age and Ambiguity

d)

Ability, Diffusion of Responsibility and Helping behavior

11.

__________ is when people conform to the behavior of others because they genuinely believe that these other people are right.

a)

Private acceptance

b)

Social Facilitation

c)

In Group

d)

Age and Gender

12.

________as social facilitation, which is the tendency for people to do better on simple tasks and worse on complex tasks when they are in the presence of others and their individual performance can be evaluated.

a)

Social Conformity

b)

Social Arousal

c)

Social Facilitation

d)

Social Loafing

13.

George is a werewolf. Whenever he meets other werewolves, he already knows some things about them: what they do on full moon nights, what their sense of smell is like, even some of the foods that they crave. He knows this because he belongs to the same group as them; this example displays:

a)

Out Group

b)

Common self-theory

c)

In Group

d)

Self-Concept Theory

14.

Sexual scripts are schemas for how sexual encounters play out between potential partners. Which one is NOT how Sexual scripts vary?

a)

One’s Culture

b)

Sexual Orientation

c)

Ethnicity

d)

Age & Gender

15.

In Asch Conformity Study how many confederates were displayed in the experiment?

a)

4

b)

5

c)

6

d)

7

16.

When someone changes their behavior due to the real or imagined influence of others this is called _____.

a)

Conformity

b)

Private Acceptance

c)

Public Compliance

d)

Informational Social Influence

17.

Jennifer and her friends are all Christian. They all met through church and have stayed friends because of their beliefs. Being that Christianity brought them together and has kept them together you could say Jennifer’s group has ________.

a)

Social Roles

b)

Social Norms

c)

Group Cohesiveness

d)

Group Diversity

18.

Mary decides she is going to help one of her friends move into her new apartment. Since Mary helped her friend, Mary’s friend is more likely to help Mary in the future. This idea is called _____.

a)

Group Selection

b)

Norm of Reciprocity

c)

Empathy

d)

Altruistic Personality

19.

________ aggression is from feelings of anger with a goal to injure or hurt. _______ aggression is done with means to achieve a goal rather than cause pain.

a)

Challenge, Dual-Hormone

b)

Instrumental, Hostile

c)

Dual-Hormone. Challenge

d)

Hostile, Instrumental

20.

Experimenter John wants to test a theory where conforming to social influence depends on the group’s importance, immediacy and the number of people in the group. This theory is called ____.

a)

Social Impact Theory

b)

Casual Theory

c)

Realistic Conflict Theory

d)

Self-Awareness Theory

21.

Lisa is the type of boss who likes to get the job done more than working with people’s feelings and building relationships with her employees. Lisa would be considered a ______ leader.

a)

Terrible

b)

Relationship-Oriented

c)

Task-Oriented

d)

Transactional

22.

The phenomenon where each bystander’s sense of responsibility to help decreases with the increasing amount of witnesses is called ______.

a)

Pluralistic Ignorance

b)

Urban Overload Hypothesis

c)

Prosocial Behavior

d)

Diffusion of Responsibility

23.

True or alse: Viewing violence, like in movies or tv shows can actually decrease one’s urge to act violently in the real world.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

The idea that having less people around when one is in danger to increase the likeliness that that person will get the help they need is ______.

a)

Pluralistic Ignorance

b)

Casual Theory

c)

Hostile Aggression

d)

Bystander Effect