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WorksheetsSocial Psychology Exam 3
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 2hrs 36mins
The preferential helping of genetic relatives
Kinship selection
Reciprocal altruism
Overhelping
Moral hypocrisy
Jenna is motivated to help Nicole because she cares about Nicole's well-being. This kind of helping is believed to be motivated by:
Evolutionary motives
Altruistic motivations
Egoistic motivations
Justice motivations
Oscar passes out in mall that is crowded with people and no one helps. He has just been the victim of
The outgroup homogeneity effect
The bystander effect
Relational aggression
Egoistic inaction
These obstacles to helping behavior are best described as preventing people who decide to help from actually providing help
Audience inhibition and costs exceeding rewards
Pluralistic ignorance and distraction
Pluralistic ignorance and diffusion of responsibility
Diffusion of responsibility and distraction
Judy sees a women doubled over in pain in a crowd of people. Judy does not help because she assumes that the other bystanders know there is not an emergency. Yet it turns out that all the bystanders are thinking the same thoughts as Judy. This is an example of:
Diffusion of responsibility
Costs exceed awards
Pluralistic ignorance
Cognitive distraction
The belief that others will take the responsibility for providing assistance to a person in need
Pluralistic ignorance
Diffusion of responsibility
Cognitive distraction
Reciprocal altruism
Reasons feeling good might lead to more helping
Desire to maintain one’s good mood
Positive expectations and thoughts about social activities
Positive expectations and thoughts about helping
All of the above
When does a bad mood lead to helping?
When we take responsibility for our bad mood
When we focus on other people (and their suffering)
If we are made to feel about our personal values that promote helping
All of the above
A battered woman shoots her physically abusive partner to stop her beatings is an example of this type of aggression
Prosocial
Proactive/Instrumental
Reactive/Emotional
None of the above
Women are more likely than men to engage in this type of aggression
Verbal
Violent
Relational
Physical
_____________is a behavior intended to harm another individual
Aggression
Frustration
Prosocial behavior
Compliance
In an experiment, people were cut in line either when they were at the back, in the middle or towards the front, which group showed the greatest aggression
Those in the back
Those in the middle
Those in the front
No one showed aggression
What factor(s) increase aggression?
Heat
Violent media
Frustration
All of the above
A jury selected based on whether or not they would vote for the death penalty
Death qualified jury
Misinformation jury
Diverse jury
Foreman of the jury
The tendency for the presence of a weapon to draw attention and impair a witness’s ability to identify the culprit
The weapon focus effect
The misinformation effect
The false identification bias
The cross race identification bias
Why people disregard judge’s order to disregard evidence or testimony
Added instruction draws attention to the information in controversy
Judge’s instruction to disregard may arouse reactance.
Jurors want to reach the right decision so it is hard to ignore information that seems relevant to the case
all of the above
The tendency for people to have difficulty identifying members of a race other than their own
Misinformation effect
Cross race identification bias
False identification tendency
All of the above
When are people likely to falsely confess
When they are vulnerable
When they do not have a clear memory of the event
When they believe there is strong evidence against them
All of the above
The tendency to regard one’s physical self primarily in terms of appearance and to adopt an observer’s perspective on the physical self
Self objectification
Identity misclassification
Gender backlash
All of the above
According to Bosson and colleagues, men’s negative reactions to engaging in gender transgressive behavior (i.e., feminine behavior) is driven by
Fear of identity misclassification
Self objectification
Feminine focus effect
All of the above
Women made to wear revealing speedo swimsuits showed _______compared to those wearing sweaters
Higher body shame
Lower self-esteem
Worse math performance
All of the above
The notion that gender differences in society derive from the roles/occupations or division of lab men and women are expected to occupy
Social enhancement theory
Social role theory
Gender backlash
Identity misclassification
The single best predictor of attraction is
Heat
Complementary personality traits
Physical attractiveness
Physical proximity
What is the LIMITATION of the beautiful is good stereotype?
Physically attractive people have socially desirable qualities
Physically attractive people deserve special treatment
Physically attractive people have less concern for others
None of the above
Participants were assigned to one of two conditions: high scary bridge and low un-intimidating bridge.Under which condition would they have the most liking for someone they met under the bridge and why?
The low, non-scary bridge because of the excitation transfer
The high, scary bridge because of the excitation transfer
Name the theory that argues that people desire and form relationships with others who are similar in terms of attitudes, values, physical attractiveness, and so on.
The matching hypothesis
The social exchange theory
The beautiful is good stereotype
All of the above
Which of the following people has a secure attachment style?
Karen values intimacy, finds it easy to get close to others, and trust his partner.
Jennifer very much wants to be close to her partner, but fears that her affections won’t be returned.
Joseph finds it difficult to trust others and often feels his partners want to be closer than he would like.
None of the above
The following is a health benefit of engagement in helping behavior:
Lower mortality risk
Higher blood pressure
Lower glucose
All of the above
According to loneliness research, who is the loneliest group of people in American society?
unmarried men and women.
people between the ages of 18-30.
people of marginalized social groups.
people above the age of 65
This theory suggests that you will see the person that you are directly facing as the most dominant person.
Impression management theory
Misinformation effect
Perceptual salience
Self perception theory
According to the video on relationship aggression, victims and aggressors of relational aggression experience the following long term issue
Depression and anxiety
Greater popularity
Academic excellence
Higher attractiveness
Women who self-promote (who show agentic traits) are seen as less hireable and less likeable but more_______
Androgynous
Feminist
Warm
Competent
