WorksheetsM74 Reading Check
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which of the following factors probably plays the least important role in explaining why children often share the same political and economic values as their parents?
exposure to mass media
operant conditioning
they have never questioned these beliefs and do not really understand them
modeling
mere exposure effect
Of the following, which would be a good example of a self-serving bias?
Carlos, who feels that everyone should strive to help themselves as well as others
Antoine, who says that he has bombed a test even though he always gets an A
Mai, who works harder for teachers who compliment her on her efforts
Lina, who overestimates the degree to which people agree with her opinions
Betty, who believes that she works harder than others and is underappreciated
Donald believes himself to be a patriotic citizen, but he also does not believe in attacking countries that are technologically no match for the United States. If the United States was to go to war and Donald were to be drafted, dissonance theory predicts that...
he would have no conflict in going off to war.
he might have to change one of his attitudes to feel less tension.
justification of the military position would have to be internalized by him.
morally, he would have to become a conscientious objector.
morally, he must fight and defend his country.
A charity sends you some greeting cards, and you feel that you should send them a small contribution. This feeling comes from the persuasion technique called...
foot-in-the-door
reciprocity
door-in-the-face
low-ball technique
central route
Why are North Americans more likely to make fundamental attribution errors than the Japanese?
North Americans have a more individualistic culture.
North Americans have a more collectivistic culture.
Japanese have a more individualistic culture.
North Americans are less friendly than Japanese.
North Americans have an assumed-similarity bias.
Matt has been offered two party-time jobs. He carefully weighs the pros and cons of each position before making a decision. Which of these best describes what he is engaged in?
Cognitive evaluation
Operant conditioning
Mere-exposure effect
Classical conditioning
Adopting cultural attitudes
George behaves rudely to Hannah. He tells his friends he does this because she refuses to help him with his homework. Why does George feel the need to justify his behavior?
to reduce cognitive dissonance
to engage in compliance
to internalize his attitude toward Hannah
to externalize his attitude about himself
to avoid counterattitudinal behavior
Why is the peripheral route for persuasion effective?
It relies on mere exposure.
It focuses on people's sense of logic.
It tries to affect people's emotions.
It is a form of brainwashing.
It relies on subliminal messaging.
You read in the newspaper that survivors in a plane accident in the Andes were discovered to have eaten other survivors during their 32-day ordeal. You will have committed the fundamental attribution error if you...
attribute the behavior to dispositional (personal) factors.
attribute the behavior to situational factors.
think you would have done the same thing if you had been there.
consider the behavior as a signal for the moral degradation of our society.
decide never to fly in a plane again.
Using the guards in the Zimbardo prison simulation as your example, explain the following psychological concepts:
- Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
- Power of the situation
- Cognitive dissonance
