Social Psych Quiz

Name: __________________________  Date: _____________ 

___ 1. | Deindividuation refers to:
A) | the enhancement of a group's prevailing attitudes through group discussion.
B) | a loss of self-awareness and self-restraint in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.
C) | the tendency to overestimate the impact of personal dispositions on another's behavior.
D) | the failure to give aid in an emergency situation observed by many onlookers.

___ 2. | Social facilitation refers to the tendency to:
A) | experience an increasing attraction to novel stimuli as they become more familiar.
B) | comply with a large request if one has previously complied with a small request.
C) | perform well-learned tasks more effectively in the presence of others.
D) | neglect critical thinking because of a strong desire for social harmony within a group.

___ 3. | The discomfort we feel when two thoughts are inconsistent is called: | |
A) | the foot-in-the-door phenomenon. | C) | group polarization.
B) | cognitive dissonance. | D) | deindividuation.

___ 4. | When college women were dressed in Ku Klux Klan-style hoods, they demonstrated significantly more aggression. This finding is best explained in terms of:
| A)  deindividuation.    B)  ingroup bias.    C)  groupthink.    D)  social facilitation.

___ 5. | Which branch of psychology is most directly concerned with the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another? | |
A) | experimental psychology | C) | personality psychology
B) | clinical psychology | D) | social psychology

___ 6. | Kentaro hates to wear ties but wears one to his sister's wedding to avoid his family's disapproval. Kentaro's behavior exemplifies the importance of: | |
A) | social facilitation. | C) | the mere exposure effect.
B) | normative social influence. | D) | informational social influence.

___ 7. | According to Milgram, the most fundamental lesson to be learned from his study of obedience is that:
A) | people value their freedom and react negatively when they feel they are being coerced to do something.
B) | the desire to be accepted by others is one of the strongest human motives.
C) | people are naturally predisposed to be hostile and aggressive.
D) | even ordinary people, who are not usually hostile, can become agents of destruction.

___ 8. | The Milgram obedience experiments were controversial because the:
A) | “teachers” were deceived and frequently subjected to severe stress.
B) | “teachers” actually seemed to enjoy shocking the “learners.”
C) | “learners” received painful electric shocks even if they had heart problems.
D) | experiments were performed despite mass student protests against the research.

___ 9. | Attitudes are ________ that guide behavior. | |
A) | superordinate goals | C) | dispositional attributions
B) | beliefs and feelings | D) | norms and roles

___ 10. | Normative social influence results from peoples' desire to: | |
A) | maintain personal control. | C) | demonstrate self-restraint.
B) | gain social approval. | D) | clarify reality.

___ 11. | Attribution theory was designed to account for:
A) | the loss of self-awareness that occurs in group situations.
B) | how people explain others' behavior.
C) | the impact of both heredity and environment on social behavior.
D) | the process of revealing intimate aspects of ourselves to others.

___ 12. | Ksana insists that her boyfriend's car accident resulted from his carelessness. Her explanation for the accident provides an example of: | |
A) | a dispositional attribution. | C) | the bystander effect.
B) | the foot-in-the-door phenomenon. | D) | ingroup bias.

___ 13. | Philip Zimbardo devised a simulated prison and randomly assigned college students to serve as prisoners or guards. This experiment best illustrated the impact of:
A) | role-playing on attitudes.
B) | deindividuation on the fundamental attribution error.
C) | frustration on aggression.
D) | team membership on social loafing.

___ 14. | The tendency for people to exert less effort when they are pooling their efforts toward a common goal is known as: | |
A) | group polarization. | C) | deindividuation.
B) | the foot-in-the-door phenomenon. | D) | social loafing.

___ 15. | Solomon Asch reported that individuals conformed to a group's judgment of the lengths of lines:
A) | even when the group judgment was clearly incorrect.
B) | only when members of the group were of high status.
C) | only when the group was composed of at least six members.
D) | even when the group seemed uncertain and repeatedly altered its judgment.

Answer Key

1. | B
2. | C
3. | B
4. | A
5. | D
6. | B
7. | D
8. | A
9. | B
10. | B
11. | B
12. | A
13. | A
14. | D
15. | A