Social Psychology 1

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In order to test a hypothesis that the presence of others inhibits a person from intervening in anemergency situation, a fake smoke was introduced in a room where one or more unsuspectingexperimental participants thought they were involved in a different experiment. The resultsshowed that people were less likely to report the smoke when they were with others than whenthey were alone.

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the results were consistent with the hypothesis, but there is an alternative explanationof the results

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According to the lecture, social factors are important for psychological processes becauseexperiments have demonstrated that:

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both;

a) people behave differently when even a minimal social relationship is present

b) people feel and behave differently when their social relationship is removed from them

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In a cyberball experiment, a participant is induced to feel he or she belongs in a group by beinginitially included in a cyber-version of a ball tossing game. When the participant is excludedfrom the group, he or she reports lower levels of ______ than when not excluded from thegroup.

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d) all of the above

Front 4

Social exclusion and rejection are said to “hurt.” Which of the following is TRUE about thisstatement?

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d) None of the above

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According to the textbook, bystander intervention is a result of a decision making processinvolving five steps. Which of the following is FALSE?

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Working out the rewards is an important factor, but working out the cost is not.

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When people are involved in a systematic processing of information, they need

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enough cognitive resources to process the information systematically &

enough motivation to process the information systematically

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Which of the following is TRUE about people’s judgments about personalities and abilitiesbased on photos of others’ faces.

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A political candidate who is evaluated to be more competent is more likely to win in aUS election.

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Which of the following is TRUE about people’s impressions about a target person?

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Impressions are formed on the basis of the cues associated with the target person

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After reading about an attorney who left an injured person in the hospital and went to the court,a participant in Miller’s study in the USA and India said, “It was his duty to be in court for theclient he was representing.” Which of the following is TRUE?

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It is one of the typical Indian responses.

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Which of the following is TRUE about a correspondence bias (or fundamental attribution error)?

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People from some cultural backgrounds show a greater extent of this bias than others.

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Heider (1958) argued that people are like naïve scientists who try to make sense of anobservable behaviour by inferring its cause. Beliefs about what caused a behaviour are calledattributions. Internal attributions are:

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Beliefs that something inside the person who performed the behaviour has caused thebehaviour

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Which of the following is FALSE about Kelley’s covariation theory of attribution?

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Distinctiveness indicates the extent to which others in the same situation behave in thesame way.

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Gilbert, Pelham, and Krull (1988) asked people to watch a videotape of a woman speakingabout something anxiously. Although they could not hear what the woman was talking about,they were told that the topic of her speech was either anxiety-provoking or fairly neutral. Half ofthe participants just watched the video, but the other half did so while remembering a list oftopics (high cognitive load). Which of the following is FALSE about this study?

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their finding supported the idea that a correction process is automatic.

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Which of the following is TRUE about impression formation?

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All of the above are TRUE.

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Which of the following is TRUE?

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People’s impressions about a target person can generate the target person’s behaviourthat is consistent with those impressions.

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Impression cycles refer to

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the process by which a target person’s behaviour can give rise to an observer’simpression about the target person, which can then influence the target person’sbehaviour, and so on, so that it can form a self-perpetuating loop.

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According to William James,

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Physical self is part of Me

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Which of the following is FALSE about the concept of looking glass self?

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It asserts the importance of mirrors in the formation of the social side of self-concept.

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Which of the following is TRUE about self-awareness and self-recognition?

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The ability to recognise the image of oneself in a mirror as a reflection of oneself (mirrorself-recognition) develops in humans by about 2 years of age.

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Which of the following is FALSE about culture and self?

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Australians are more likely to have independent self-construal than Americans.

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Which of the following is TRUE?

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The sense of one’s self is concerned with personal identity.