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WorksheetsSocial Psychology Section 7
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 3hrs 30mins
When Lina started university, whenever she met someone new she told them the whole story about how her father was always so kind to her but extremely abusive to her brother. She read that personal disclosure is helpful in making a good first impression. But this seemed to not be working. The reason for that is:
People do not like people from abusive families
Too much disclosure leads to a negative impression
None of the above
Both Choices
A mental image or representation that we use to understand our social
environment.
Stereotypes
Social Schema
Social dynamic
Social perception
Students who are in the American Diploma have bad work ethic. This is an
example of a:
Stereotypes
Social perception
Social dynamic
Social Schema
The two ways that stereotypes form are:
Seeing and believing
Indirect and direct
Mom and Dad
Movies and Media
When Karim was driving on Road 90, he turned and took a sharp turn cutting another car off. The accident that ensued as a result of his poor driving meant he had to talk to the driver of the car he hit. He was furious that his car was dented and although the accident was both his fault and the driver, he insisted it must of been the other driver’s fault because she is a woman who cannot drive. This is
an example of:
Illusory correlation
Social perception
First impression
None of the above
A personal explanation of the causes of behavior or events we observe
Attribution
Stereotype
Conformity
Compliance
Yasmine was on her way to the library to study for her psychology test when she got stuck in traffic that caused her to miss her study session with some friends. Because of this and then later getting sick, she did not manage to get all the studying she wanted done and ended up doing poorly on the test. Although all the circumstances that stopped her from studying were external, her teacher
labelled her as a lazy student and blamed her bad work habits for her poor grades. This is an example of:
Stereotypes
Fundamental attribution error
None of the above
both choices
The four basic concepts of social identity theory do NOT include the following:
Social categorization
Social acceptance
Social comparison
Positive Distinctiveness
The difference between conformity and compliance is:
One is social and one is emotional
One involves money the other involves jail
One involves a request the other does not necessarily
One is cognitive the other is biological
The process of developing an opinion or impression of another person is called:
Impression Formation
Social Perception
Stereotypes
Attribution
When you grow up always being told that people from Japan are good at Math,
this stereotype is a result of:
Direct experience
Indirect experience
First Impressions
Fundamental Attribution error
Although Nadia is a very talented graphic artist, she does not believe she is
able to perform in her graphic design course because she lacks the confidence.
The cause of this behavior can be explained as a:
Situational Cause
Dispositional Cause
Social Schema
None of the above
Normally Abdulrahman is very good at math. He has always been told that he is a gifted math student. However, when he joined a new school in 9th grade, he
was accidentally placed in the lower level math class called the remedial math group. Because he was put in the remedial math class, despite his original gifted
abilities, he performed poorly in the first math test of the year. This is an example of:
Stereotype threat
Stereotype promise
Social Schema
Fundamental Attribution error
The tendency to take credit for our accomplishments and to explain away our failures or disappointments is seen to be mostly prominent in Western societies. However, in places like Japan for example, the opposite seems to be true. This tendency is explained by:
Social Schema
Self Serving bias
Culture
None of the above
An advertisement is an example of _____________ compliance:
Implicit
Explicit
Sneaky
Manipulative
