Unit 6 Chapter 16 Flashcards
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. What is the primary focus of social psychology?
a. the way individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by others
b. mental disorders associated with social problems, like pathological shyness
c. the impact of self-esteem on social interaction and success
d. the way that society is structured and organized, including the study of institutions
a. the way individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by others
Which of the following pairs are topics covered in social psychology?
a. interpersonal attraction and the role of pheromones
b. interpersonal attraction and social phobias
c. person perception and interpersonal attraction
d. person perception and visual perception
c. person perception and interpersonal attraction
Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that social psychologists will study the
behaviour of solitary individuals?
a. The behaviour of individuals who are alone is unaffected by social influences, so it
can be seen as a “pure” behaviour.
b. The contrast between the behaviour of isolated individuals and individuals in
groups is important to consider.
c. The behaviour of an individual, when alone, is still influenced by socialization and
social learning.
d. An individual’s behaviour can be affected by the actual, imagined, or implied
presence of others
a. The behaviour of individuals who are alone is unaffected by social influences, so it
can be seen as a “pure” behaviour
What process is called “person perception”?
a. predicting the behaviour of others
b. monitoring the impressions you make on other people
c. developing an implicit personality theory
d. forming impressions of others
d. forming impressions of others
Joel and Kirk both work with a stock brokerage firm. Joel is considered to be extremely
attractive, and Kirk is considered to be average in appearance. Based on research that has
investigated the effects of physical appearance in person perception, which of the following
should you predict?
a. Joel will tend to receive better performance evaluations than Kirk, for equivalent
work.
b. Kirk will tend to receive better performance evaluations than Joel, for equivalent
work.
c. Joel will be perceived as having greater integrity and being more honest.
d. Kirk will be perceived as being more submissive and naïve
a. Joel will tend to receive better performance evaluations than Kirk, for equivalent
work.
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What types of attributions do people tend to make about other people, based on attractiveness?
a. We tend to be less trusting of attractive individuals.
b. We equate attractiveness with positive traits.
c. We tend to perceive attractive people as nicer, but less competent.
d. We often impose a behavioural penalty on attractive individuals.
b. We equate attractiveness with positive traits.
When we evaluate the correlations between attractiveness and actual traits, which of the
following is found?
a. There is no predictive relationship between attractiveness and personality traits.
b. Attractive people really do have more favourable traits, on average, than
unattractive people.
c. The relationship between income and appearance is likely related to the tendency
for attractive individuals to be somewhat more intelligent.
d. Attractive individuals are more friendly and well-adjusted than unattractive people,
but there are no other significant correlations.
a. There is no predictive relationship between attractiveness and personality traits.
What attributions do children tend to make when they are shown photos of other children?
a. They attribute positive traits based on gender rather than attractiveness.
b. They attribute positive traits based on familiarity rather than attractiveness.
c. They attribute positive traits based on attractiveness rather than other factors.
d. They attribute positive traits based on age rather than other factors
c. They attribute positive traits based on attractiveness rather than other factors.
Which of the following is often sufficient to accurately determine someone’s sexual
orientation?
a. a ten second video clip
b. a photograph
c. a handshake
d. a personality test
a. a ten second video clip
How do we tend to perceive people with baby-faced features (e.g., large eyes, smooth skin)?
a. competent and hardworking
b. intelligent and nonconforming
c. honest and trustworthy
d. dominant and perceptive
c. honest and trustworthy
Which of the following people are most likely to be viewed as honest and trustworthy?
a. people who are physically attractive
b. baby-faced people
c. older people
d. people who mimic our own mannerisms
b. baby-faced people
What is the term for your unique ideas about how a university class should be run, what a
typical straight “A” student is like, and how a typical professor will act?
a. attitudes
b. social schemas
c. prejudices
d. attributions
b. social schemas
What is the term for the organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and
people?
a. co-variation inferences
b. attributions
c. illusory correlations
d. social schemas
d. social schemas
Deanna wore blue jeans and brought some potato salad to the company picnic. She was
surprised to see that all the men were wearing suits and ties, and all the women were wearing
summer dresses. The meal was served on china with crystal drinking glasses. Why was
Deanna so surprised?
a. The event activated the fundamental attribution error.
b. The event triggered a confirmation bias.
c. The event was outside her latitude of acceptance.
d. The event didn’t match her social schema for picnics
d. The event didn’t match her social schema for picnics
Dr. Sterling is a psychology professor and she is also part of a lobbying group that is trying to
get the government to devote more money to research in the social sciences. She invites the
MP for her area to her lab at the university, for a tour and a demonstration of the research that
she and her colleagues are developing. She’s hoping that if she can get the politician to agree
to the tour that she’ll later be able to convince him to vote to increase funding when the new
bill gets to parliament.
When the MP arrives at Dr. Sterling’s lab, he is temporarily taken aback. Dr. Sterling is
rather young and attractive, wearing a very stylish suit. The politician had expected a
psychology professor to be a stodgy old man with a beard and a rumpled lab coat! Along
their tour, they stop to watch, through a two-way mirror, the progress of an experiment that is
taking place in one of the lab rooms. A group of seven people are being asked to judge the
length of a line that is shown on a computer screen. One after another, each of the people
makes a judgement that is clearly wrong. The MP chuckles and thinks to himself that the
people in that room are all idiots, or perhaps have vision problems.
After the tour is over, Dr. Sterling takes the politician for lunch. Over lunch she explains to
him that universities need more money in order to fund cutting edge research and make
greater progress into understanding human behaviour. She also stresses that if the schools do
not get an increase in funding, then Canadian students will lag behind the rest of the world in
this area and our government will be a laughingstock of the developed world. The only way
to prevent that from happening is to make sure that there is more funding for research. The
politician leaves, and feels that he really should vote to increase social science funding.
15. Why was the politician surprised at Dr. Sterling’s appearance?
a. He is vulnerable to the “what is beautiful is good” effect.
b. He has a stereotype for women, and she does not fit the stereotype.
c. He is sexist.
d. Her appearance violated his social schema for a psychology professor.
d. Her appearance violated his social schema for a psychology professor.
When the MP assumes that the people in the experiment are “idiots,” what does that illustrate?
a. self-serving bias
b. fundamental attribution error
c. external causal attribution
d. discrimination
b. fundamental attribution error
When Dr. Sterling tried to demonstrate to the MP how he can avoid bad outcomes by
increasing funding to researchers, which factor in the process of persuasion was Dr. Sterling
manipulating?
a. source
b. channel
c. receiver
d. message
d. message
Which famous study is most similar to the one being conducted in Dr. Sterling’s lab?
a. Asch’s conformity study
b. Festinger’s cognitive dissonance study
c. Zimbardo’s prison study
d. Milgram’s obedience study
a. Asch’s conformity study
Which persuasion technique is Dr. Sterling using when she gets the MP to agree to the tour, in
hopes of him agreeing to a larger request later?
a. reciprocity norm
b. lowball technique
c. foot-in-the-door technique
d. door-in-the-face technique
c. foot-in-the-door technique
What is the term for widely held beliefs about groups of people based on their group
membership?
a. stereotypes
b. schematizing
c. cognitive structuring
d. cultural direction
a. stereotypes
Marsha believes that all news reporters are cynical, doubting individuals who would sell their
souls for an exclusive story. In this case, what do Marsha’s beliefs reflect?
a. the fundamental attribution error
b. a confirmation bias
c. a stereotype
d. the matching hypothesis
c. a stereotype
Newton believes that all airline pilots are calm, cool individuals who never get excited or
show any strong emotional responses. What do Newton’s beliefs reflect?
a. a confirmation bias
b. a stereotype
c. the fundamental attribution error
d. the matching hypothesis
b. a stereotype
You just sat down in class next to a girl who you know is in the drama club. You believe that
people who excel in drama are also very likely to drink a lot of wine, so, to start conversation,
you ask this girl about her favourite wine. She tells you about a chardonnay that she
particularly likes, but she doesn’t mention that she rarely drinks wine (she’s more of a “beer
person”). Once the conversation is over, you have no idea what she prefers and you’re even
more convinced that actors are big wine drinkers. Based on the research of Zanna and Cooper,
what has happened here?
a. You’ve acted in a way that is discriminatory.
b. Your stereotypes led to a self-fulfilling prophesy.
c. You’ve succumbed to the social schema effect.
d. You’ve committed the fundamental attribution erro
b. Your stereotypes led to a self-fulfilling prophesy
Which of the following reflects the illusory correlation effect?
a. We see correlations between social traits that really aren’t there, because our
expectations distort our memories.
b. We fail to see true correlations between social traits, because our expectations
distort our memories.
c. We are motivated to accurately estimate the frequency with which some pattern of
social traits occurs.
d. We incorrectly assume that one social trait is the cause of another, simply because
we have observed that they are correlated
a. We see correlations between social traits that really aren’t there, because our
expectations distort our memories.