PSY 140 WEEK 8 QUIZ
1 The study of group interactions, relationships, perceptions, and attitudes is the study of ________ psychology.
a. behavioral
b. social
c. cognitive
d. group
2. The individual who joins a lynch mob or a vigilante group almost never has a previous history of violent behavior. This fact demonstrates the powerful effects of
a. the diffusion of responsibility.
b. latent aggressive tendencies in people.
c. group actions upon individuals' behavior.
d. dispositional attributions.
3. Regarding social loafing, the ______ the group, the more each member of the group is likely to ______ their individual contributions to the group.
a. more diverse; increase
b. smaller; reduce
c. larger; increase
d. larger; reduce
4. Highly cohesive groups often think in ways that foster unanimous agreement rather than critical evaluation. This tendency is known as
a. collective behavior.
b. social facilitation.
c. groupthink
d. forced compliance.
5. Conformity is the idea of _______ when ______.
a. opposing group action; you have much to gain from your opposition
b. yielding to group pressure; you have been asked to do so
c. yielding to group pressure; no direct request has been made
d. standing up to group; you know your stand will be unpopular
6. Because society expects us to behave differently in different social settings we have
a. a single social role.
b. many gender roles.
c. several levels of obedience.
d. many different social roles.
7. In Milgram's classic obedience to authority study, how many participants completed the study by giving the highest levels of "shocks" available to give?
a. 75%
b. 65%
c. 85%
d. 95%
8. According to social psychologists, ______ are beliefs that predispose us to act and feel and certain ways.
a. conforms
b. stereotypes
c. attitudes
d. social roles
9. The technique from persuasion called ______ means that a person makes a small request first to get you to agree, then makes a larger request second.
a. foot-in-the-door
b. door-in-the-face
c. obedience to authority
d. bait-and-switch
10. What is most likely to change when behavior and attitudes are inconsistent?
a. Attitudes will often follow behavior.
b. Behavior will generally change to match attitudes.
c. Behaviors will generally change in the direction of the attitude and the attitude, will change in the direction of the behavior.
d. Neither will change in most persons.
11. In a classic study, Sherif and colleagues showed that prejudice can arise between randomly divided students. This study demonstrated an explanation for prejudice called
a. unrealized conflict.
b. groupthink.
c. us vs. them.
d. deindividuation.
12. Generally speaking, we tend to be more attracted to
a. non-attractive people than attractive people.
b. liberals rather than conservatives.
c. non-religious people than religious people.
d. competent people than non-competent people.
13. The desire to have someone near to you and feelings of deep, caring affection for a person are traits of ________ love.
a. passionate
b. eros
c. romantic
d. companionate
14. Those psychologists who typically work with businesses are generally known as ______ psychologists.
a. industrial-organizational
b. social
c. development
d. health
15. When an employee contributes to the social welfare of the organization by cooperating and helping other employees or going beyond the call of duty to help the organization, this is an example of
a. simulated management task follow-through.
b. structured interview predictability.
c. in-basket success.
d. organizational citizenship.
16. The ______ a measure predicts ______ job performance, the less biased it is against ethnic minority groups.
a. worse; past
b. better; future
c. better; past
d. worse; future
17. Your friend works for a major corporation that manufactures sprockets. If she says that job satisfaction is high in her plant, which of the following could you predict with the greatest accuracy?
a. Turnover and absenteeism are low.
b. Productivity is very high.
c. Job performance tests are not used for promotion purposes.
d. Intelligence tests are used to measure productivity.
18. In a study of gender and leadership, women tended to be more ________ then men.
a. masculine
b. task-oriented
c. democratic
d. effective
19. The goal of human factors engineering is to make machines
a. using the fewest possible parts.
b. more easily operated by humans.
c. in the least expensive way.
d. to need to be replaced within 5 years.
20. Why would a company want to consider spending more money on a full-color magazine advertisement than on a black-and-white ad?
a. Full-color ads are read by 20% more readers.
b. Full-color ads are read by 50% more readers
c. Full-color ads are read by 70% more readers
d. Full-color ads are read by 95% more readers
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21. In the research based on dorm rooms, there is clear evidence for the use of the ______ approach for many
psychological reasons.
a. connector
b. single-corridor
c. landscape
d. suite-design
22. Of the approximately 6 billion people on earth, about how many live in an extreme poverty situation?
a. under 1 million
b. 250,000,000
c. over 1 billion
d. over 3.2 billion
23. In terms of conviction rates, those who are ________ are convicted more often than those who are ________.
a. rich; poor
b. unattractive; attractive
c. high-status; low-status
d. short, tall
24. Today, the focus of educational psychology is primarily on
a. curriculum change.
b. redesigning classrooms.
c. improving new technologies.
d. educating slow learners.
25. Which of the following would be an example of the use of intelligent tutoring systems?
a. a computer is programmed to be an individual tutor for a student
b. a computer program is used to schedule tutoring times in the library
c. a computer program is used to grade short answer English essays
d. one-on-one tutoring is used to help students become more self-confident
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