Psychology 101 - General Psychology » Summer 2022 » Chapter 12 Quiz

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Question #1
What is the major flaw in the Asch conformity study?
A.   Asch ignored the importance of several factors influencing conformity—including race, class, and gender.
B.   Asch ignored the importance of a major factor influencing conformity—the size of the group.
C.   Asch ignored the importance of a major factor influencing conformity—whether the response was public or private.
D.   Asch ignored the importance of a major factor influencing conformity—the presence of another dissenter.
Question #2
Which statement about Sternberg’s triangular theory of love is incorrect?
A.   Different aspects of love might be more prevalent at different life stages.
B.   Seven types of love can be described from the three components of love.
C.   Healthy relationships will have all three components of love: intimacy, passion, and commitment.
D.   Different aspects of love are hierarchical. For example, companionate love is much better and longer lasting than consummate love.
Question #3
Which of the following is an example of a self-serving bias?
A.   Leonard attributes earning a good grade in his psychology class to the fact that he is an exceptionally hard working student who is also incredibly smart. He blames the poor grade he received in his sociology class on having a bad teacher who gave hard exams.
B.   Leonard gets bad grades in sociology and psychology, so he switches his major to biology because he will like it more.
C.   Leonard gets a bad grade in his psychology class and a good grade in his sociology class, so he believes he should study harder to prepare for his next psychology exam.
D.   Leonard gets good grades in sociology and psychology, so he sends his professors a card thanking them for what good professors they are.
Question #4
Which of the following is the best example of the foot-in-the-door technique of persuasion?
A.   supporting your sister who has decided to go cold turkey in order to quit smoking
B.   anti-smoking advertisements that use charts and graphs to show how many people die from smoking-related causes each year
C.   getting your parents to agree to cut their smoking down by a few cigarettes, then asking them to quit altogether
D.   anti-smoking advertisements that rely on celebrity spokespeople advocating for reduction in cigarette use
Question #5
What is the main point of the Stanford prison experiment?
A.   Zimbardo was an unethical researcher
B.   students cannot be trusted in roles of authority
C.   social roles are powerful determinants of human behavior
D.   students cannot be relied upon to act appropriately
Question #6
Following an outcome, ________ are those attributions that enable us to see ourselves in favorable light.
A.   egocentric bias
B.   fundamental bias
C.   self-serving bias
D.   interpersonal bias
Question #7
What is a major problem with the original Milgram study?
A.   Milgram never published his finding, making his reported results questionable.
B.   Milgram lied to his respondents, making his study borderline unethical.
C.   Milgram falsified his results, making his study unreliable.
D.   Milgram was too truthful with his subjects, making his study invalid.
Question #8
The field of social psychology studies topics at the intrapersonal level. These topics include ________.
A.   society and social interaction, families, ecology, and religion
B.   emotions and attitudes, the self, and social cognition
C.   prejudice and discrimination, helping behavior, aggression, and group processes
D.   ethnographies, case studies, archives, and statistics
Question #9
A(n) ________ is the evaluation of or feelings toward a person, idea, or object that are typically positive or negative.
A.   sense
B.   cognition
C.   feeling
D.   attitude
Question #10
When it comes to social psychology, a script is a ________.
A.   set of instructions to be carried out
B.   prescription for psychotropic medicine
C.   written record of a person’s history
D.   person’s knowledge about the sequence of events in a specific setting

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