Social Psychology Mock Quiz

Social Psychology
Topic: 2,5,8
Answer Key
1. Which of the following factors can explain the self-serving bias?
a. Cognitive factors
b. Motivational factors
c. Both cognitive and motivational factors
d. Neither cognitive nor motivational factors
2. Which of the following cultures is more likely to exhibit correspondence bias (fundamental
attribution error)?
a. Individualist cultures
b. Collectivist cultures
c. Both individualist and collectivist cultures
d. Neither individualist nor collectivist cultures
3. Which of the following is NOT a factor that people consider when making correspondent
inferences about the causes of others’ behavior, according to Jones and Davis’s (1965)
theory?
a. Consensus
b. Consistency
c. Distinctiveness
d. Congruence
4. What is the just-world hypothesis?

a. The assumption that bad things happen to bad people and good things happen to good
people.
b. The assumption that bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad
people.
c. The assumption that all things happen randomly.
d. The assumption that there is no justice in the world.
5. ‘I’m taking antibiotics at the moment, so I’m not going to perform my best during our tennis
this morning’ said, Ted to Karim. Ted’s statement revealed:
a. Self-handicapping
b. Low-balling technique
c. The below-average effect
d. Fundamental attribution error
6. What is the term used to describe the degree of attraction felt by an individual toward an
influencing group?
a. Cohesion
b. Consistency
c. Commitment
d. Compliance
7. Social loafing would be least likely to occur

a. in a boys' club trying to raise money by holding a Saturday car wash
b. in a relay race where each team member's performance is timed
c. in a community garden where each family is expected to contribute whatever free
time they have
d. in a work crew building a new highway
8. According to the Theory of Reasoned Action, what determines behavioural intentions?

a. Attitudes toward a behaviour, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control
b. Attitudes toward behavior and subjective norms
c. Perceived behavioral control and social pressure
d. Attitudes and personal values
9. What is the concept of "tabula rasa"?

a. The idea that infants are born with innate knowledge
b. The idea that infants are born as blank slates and learn through experience
c. The idea that infants are born with fixed personalities
d. The idea that infants are born with social skills
10. According to Moscovici and colleagues’ blue-green studies (1969), in which of the following
conditions is a minority of people most likely to exert influence over the majority?
a. Where the minority both publicly and privately endorses a position
b. Where the minority is at least one-third of the size of the majority
c. Where the minority holds a notably different position to the majority
d. Where the minority remains consistent in its position
11. Why was the fundamental attribution error (FAE) later referred to as the correspondence
bias?
a. The consideration of developmental and cultural factors has led to the perspective that
the fundamental attribution error may not be as ‘fundamental’ as originally thought
b. Correspondence bias represents more helpful ‘catch-all’ terminology
c. The fundamental attribution error was found to be false, while the correspondence
bias has proven to be true
d. Correspondence bias is synonymous with the fundamental attribution error and there
is no difference between both terms
12. In the classic study by LaPierre (1934), what did the survey of restaurant and hotel owners
reveal about their attitudes toward serving Chinese people?
a. They were overwhelmingly positive.
b. They were mixed, with some being positive and some negative.
c. They were overwhelmingly negative.
d. They were unchanged from before the visit by the Chinese couple.
13. In relation to the attitude-behaviour link, research indicates that as attitudes are being formed,
they correlate more strongly with a future behaviour when the attitudes are:
a. Positive, accessible, strong, people frequently report their attitudes
b. Positive, accessible, stable over time, people frequently report their attitudes
c. Implicit, positive, accessible, people frequently report their attitudes
d. Stable over time, accessible, people have had direct experience with the attitude
object and they frequently report their attitudes
14. The 'compatibility principle' states that:

a. All measures should include target, action, context and time elements
b. All measures should include target, action, context and time elements, and the
specificity of these elements must be matched across measures
c. The specificity of target, action, context and time elements must be matched across
measures
d. None of the above
15. How did Schachter and Singer’s theory of emotions differ from the James-Lange theory of
emotions?
a. people 'attribute arousal' to the context in which emotions occur, provided that
alternative cognitive labelling is unlikely. Schachter and Singer argued that this claim
is incorrect because it would lead to misattribution of arousal.
b. people 'attribute arousal' to the context in which emotions occur. Schachter and
Singer argued that this only happens when alternative cognitive labelling is unlikely.
c. emotions result from people's perceptions of their physiological state. Schachter and
Singer argued, instead, that physiological states are the result of emotions.
d. emotions result from people's perceptions of their physiological state. Schachter and
Singer argued that also the cognitive interpretation of the situation contributes to what
emotions people experience.
16. The murders committed by mobster "hit men" provide an example of

a. emotional aggression
b. silent aggression
c. how catharsis can reduce aggression
d. instrumental aggression
17. Ben watches a documentary about faulty airplane parts and poor pilot driving leading to fatal
plane crashes. She decides she will cancel her multi-flight trip around Europe because she
worries about the possibility of a plane crash. Yet, the true prevalence rate of plane crashes is
very small, making it highly unlikely that Ben would ever be involved in one. Which of the
following heuristics or biases is most likely to have underpinned Ben’s decision to cancel her
trip?
a. The availability heuristic
b. Negativity bias
c. The representativeness heuristic
d. Hindsight bias
18. Milgram’s (1963) study involved participants taking on the role of ‘teacher’ in what they
believed to be a learning task, and were instructed by the experimenter to administer electric
shocks of increasing intensity to a ‘learner’. Approximately 65% of participants were found
to continue administering shocks to the highest intensity level. Which of the following would
NOT be expected to reduce levels of obedience within the Milgram study procedure?
a. The experimenter being seen to lack authority, rather than having authority
b. The experimenter delivering instructions to the participant by phone, rather than in
person
c. The experiment is not conducted in a research facility, but conducted in the less
legitimate setting of a run-down office building
d. Not applicable – all of the above would be expected to reduce levels of obedience
within the Milgram study procedure
19. According to Gigerenzer (1996), what is one critique of research on heuristics and biases?
a. The influential role of the environment or context in which a choice/judgment is
made is predominantly ignored
b. Labelling and categorizing the various heuristics and biases has led to an explanation
of underlying cognitive processes that lead to judgments
c. Researchers have subscribed to a doctrine that places adherence to laws of
probabilities as the pinnacle of 'sound reasoning'
20. Which of the following is an example of the availability heuristic?

a. Assigning instances to categories on the basis of overall similarity
b. Tying inferences to initial standards or schemas
c. Judging the likelihood of an event based on how easily instances or associations come
to mind

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4. What is the just-world hypothesis?

7. Social loafing would be least likely to occur

8. According to the Theory of Reasoned Action, what determines behavioural intentions?

9. What is the concept of "tabula rasa"?

14. The 'compatibility principle' states that:

16. The murders committed by mobster "hit men" provide an example of

20. Which of the following is an example of the availability heuristic?

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