• Choose a category
• All
• Classic-Fiction

(A) attribute the behavior to dispositional (personal) factors

(B) attribute the behavior to situational factors

(C) think you would have done the same thing if you had been there

(D) consider the behavior as a signal for the moral degradation of our society

(E) decide never to fly in a plane again

5. Ethnocentrism is the belief that

(A) ethnic foods are all good

(B) human diversity is a positive force

(C) one’s own culture is superior to others

(D) other people are all pretty much alike in their opinions

(E) cultural pluralism is a destructive goal that fosters conflict

6. The effect of one confederate selecting a different line from the others in the Asch conformity test was

(A) continuing conformity by the participant to avoid looking bad to the others

(B) the participant asking to vote privately on a separate piece of paper

(C) a boost to the self-efficacy of the participant

(D) to release the participant from the conformity effect

(E) to cause the experimenter to release that confederate in the next trial period, thus ensuring continued conformity by the participant

7. 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?

(A) exposure to mass media

(B) operant conditioning

(C) they have never questioned these beliefs and do not really understand them

(D) modeling

(E) mere exposure effect

8. Of the following, which would be a good example of a self-serving bias?

(A) Carlos, who feels that everyone should strive to help themselves as well as others

(B) Antoine, who says that he has bombed a test even though he always gets an A

(C) Mai, who works harder for teachers who compliment her on her efforts

(D) Lina, who overestimates the degree to which people agree with her opinions

(E) Betty, who believes that she works harder than others and is underappreciated

9. In a jigsaw classroom,

(A) students are dependent upon each other to learn all parts of a lesson

(B) learning is enhanced by simulations and lectures run by teachers

(C) competition encourages kids to achieve their full potential

(D) outcome research has shown limited success beyond the elementary school level

(E) individualism is encouraged to foster self-esteem

10. Although Graham has not yet met his future college roommate, he learned that the roommate is a football player. He is anxious and unhappy about sharing his room with a football player because he expects that his roommate will be a “party animal” who makes studying in his room difficult. Graham’s attitude can be classified as

(A) stereotype threat

(B) prejudice

(C) discrimination

(D) scapegoating

(E) fully justified

11. When asked what they would do if they could be totally invisible and there would be no recrimination, most people answered that they would commit an antisocial act. Which of the following social phenomena might best be able to explain this response?

(A) reciprocity

(B) group polarization

(C) social loafing

(D) deindividuation

(E) self-fulfilling prophecy

12. Which of the following social psychological experiments has been considered the most unethical and led to sweeping reforms in the APA ethical guidelines?

(A) Bandura’s Bobo study of TV aggression

(B) Asch’s line test for conformity

(C) Milgram’s obedience to authority study

(D) Sherif’s boys’ camp study

(E) Jane Eliot’s brown-eyed/blue-eyed study of prejudice

13. 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

(A) he would have no conflict in going off to war

(B) he might have to change one of his attitudes to feel less tension

(C) justification of the military position would have to be internalized