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Question
1. Affectively based attitudes so resistant to logical persuasive attempts to change them because these attitudes are:
A. exclusively acquired by automatic processes.
B. not effective attitudes.
C. not generally rooted in cognitive processes.
D. rooted in counterfactual thinking.
2. Why should we be skeptical about advertisers' claims that they can influence consumers to buy products without their awareness?
A. Such advertisements only work on a small segment of the population.
B. Advertisers seldom, if ever, use controlled studies to support their claims.
C. Advertisers rely more on people's self-reports than on their actual purchasing patterns.
D. People often see or hear so-called messages that lie outside of awareness (even if they do not truly exist).
3. When we witness a person being mocked by other members of a group, we often become more conforming to that group. This is known as:
A. informational influence.
B. group mobility.
C. normative reflexivity.
D. jeer pressure.
4. A student signs up for an experiment as part of her first-year psychology course. During the experiment, she undergoes a functional magnetic resonance imaging procedure during a test of conformity. Her fMRI shows that areas of the brain associated with negative emotions and modulating social behaviour were activated. What likely happened during this experiment to produce this result?
A. she was upset that she signed up for the experiment
B. she had chosen to go against the group and did not conform
C. she had conformed due to normative influence
D. she was answering alone (i.e., not in the presence of others
5. Which of the following comparisons represents the strength dimension, as defined by social impact theory (Latané, 1981)?
A. friends versus strangers
B. being with a friend right now or meeting a friend one month from now
C. a group of 2 acquaintances versus a group of 10 acquaintances
D. yielding to informational influence versus yielding to normative influence
6. As discussed by your textbook, people often _______ groups containing highly similar people, but they ________ in groups with greater ranges of the types of people in the group.
A. dissolve; rediscover forgotten aspects of the self
B. prefer; are more creative and generative
C. stagnate psychologically in; perform even worse
D. exaggerate their friendship numbers within; under-represent their friendship numbers
7. Your textbook discusses how some researchers believe that that the need to belong to groups is present in all societies because:
A. interaction with many people is unavoidable.
B. the Industrial Revolution brought about increased specialization in the workforce.
C. group membership has conferred evolutionary advantages to humans.
D. hunting and farming have been replaced by business and technology.
8. Your textbook discusses how people make decisions when finding themselves with an interaction partner who is difficult to cooperate with. What did they find?
A. Cooperation was lowest when people had the option of leaving that partner and switching to someone new as a partner
B. Cooperation was highest when people had the option of leaving that partner and switching to someone new as a partner
C. People stuck with an uncooperative partner generally chose to not punish them because they would lose money to do so
D. Punishment leads uncooperative partners to become more cooperative, meaning that punishment is an effective way to increase cooperation
9. Research shows that people with lower (vs. higher) incomes:
A. Show less helping of others
B. d. Have a greater sense of agency in helping contexts
C. Generally help others when reciprocity expectations are explicit
D. Show greater helping of others
10. Priming people with religious concepts has been found to make people:
A. less likely to attend religious services, but only among those initially not religious.
B. angry toward those who are not charitable
C. more generous in donating or helping others
D. more trusting of others
11. Your textbook discusses a study where the researchers raised two animals together, that normally would be hunter and prey. But the "hunter" did not kill the other, and in fact, did not attack other animals similar to the animal they were raised with. Below pick an appropriate conclusion from this study, based on our current understanding.
A. Animals only attack each other if sufficiently hungry.
B. Although non-human animals can have their natural levels of aggression reduced, this would not be possible in humans
C. Researcher bias and expectation can drive the study results.
D. Animals can show inclinations toward aggressive behaviour that can be trumped by environmental factors
12. On average, the correlation between men's hormonal levels and violence is closest to:
A. 0.15
B. 0.40
C. 0.70
D. 0.0
13. esearch shows that television programming consumption tends to ____ and ____:
A. increase aggressive actions; increase perceptions that world is dangerous
B. pique interest in media studies; increase perceptions that the world is safe
C. erase the effects of videogame violence; lower prejudice
D. undermine motivation in men; boost motivation in women
14. Research shows that when ethnic minorities hide their race or ethnicity in job applications, employers are:
A. 2X more likely to contact applicants for interviews
B. Likely to favour these applicants over White applicants
C. Willing to admit their own personal prejudices
D. Even more likely to discriminate against these applicants
15. Research has found that men who score higher in sexism can have which of the following effects on women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) settings?
A. Enamour women toward such men (i.e., make them attracted toward the "strong man" stereotype in a masculine setting.)
B. Create counter-resistance in women, making them outperform men
C. these men display power and sexual interest in female peers, with such behaviour causing women to underperform on tasks relevant to that discipline.
D. these men are more confident than non-sexist men, boosting their performance on STEM tasks.