Unit 4 Psych 381 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
1. According to research by Blanchard-Fields and colleagues, which age group made more dispositional
attributions when assessing the behaviour of others in presented situations?
Select one:
a. adolescents
b. young adults
c. middle-aged adults
d. older adults - CORRECT ANSWER -d. older adults
When in a new situation, you draw on prior experiences. This is known as
Select one:
a. knowledge base.
b. social context base.
c. social knowledge.
d. implicit memory. - CORRECT ANSWER -c. social knowledge.
3. Some researchers argue that changes in _____ might lead to an increased need for closure with age.
Select one:
a. personal control
b. possible selves
c. emotional selectivity
d. processing resources - CORRECT ANSWER -d. processing resources
3. When people develop explanations of another person's behaviour based on things outside the control of
the other person, this is know as a
Select one:
a. situational attribution.
,b. causal attribution.
c. causation.
d. dispositional attribution. - CORRECT ANSWER -a. situational attribution.
1. John is such a good person. This statement is an example of a
Select one:
a. situational attribution.
b. causal attribution.
c. causation.
d. dispositional attribution. - CORRECT ANSWER -d. dispositional attribution.
1. Alice has misplaced her keys (which rarely happens), but her grandchildren are very worried that
something might be wrong with grandma. Never mind that her granddaughter has done the same thing
three times this week. The above is an example of
Select one:
a. an age-based double standard.
b. an age-based stereotype.
c. the beginning signs of Alzheimer's disease.
d. senility - CORRECT ANSWER -a. an age-based double standard.
7. Before you are told the details about a car accident your friend was in, you are told that the other
person involved in the accident was an older man who is hard of hearing. Whether this information will
influence your social judgement of the event is related to your
Select one:
a. social context effect.
b. implicit priming.
c. implicit stereotyping
d. impression formation. - CORRECT ANSWER -c. implicit stereotyping
The likelihood that information in memory will be used to guide social judgments is related to
, Select one:
a. how easily the information can be accessed.
b. your social context base.
c. how quickly the information is processed.
d. your implicit memory. - CORRECT ANSWER -a. how easily the information can be accessed.
. Referring to older adults as golden agers or senile are examples of
Select one:
a. social scripts.
b. stereotypes.
c. situational attributions.
d. causal attributions. - CORRECT ANSWER -b. stereotypes.
The results of Bargh and colleagues on subliminal priming reveal that
Select one:
a. causal attributions of older adults are more likely to be dispositional in nature.
b. negative stereotypes are activated when we are unaware of them.
c. patronizing speech is common among nursing home workers.
d. personal control is related to memory performance. - CORRECT ANSWER -b. negative
stereotypes are activated when we are unaware of them.
. Gottman's research on the predictors of early divorce and later divorce found that
Select one:
a. positive emotion was an important predictor.
b. predictors might not apply across all income levels.
c. negative emotion was an important predictor.
d. all alternatives are true. - CORRECT ANSWER -d. all alternatives are true.
Questions and CORRECT Answers
1. According to research by Blanchard-Fields and colleagues, which age group made more dispositional
attributions when assessing the behaviour of others in presented situations?
Select one:
a. adolescents
b. young adults
c. middle-aged adults
d. older adults - CORRECT ANSWER -d. older adults
When in a new situation, you draw on prior experiences. This is known as
Select one:
a. knowledge base.
b. social context base.
c. social knowledge.
d. implicit memory. - CORRECT ANSWER -c. social knowledge.
3. Some researchers argue that changes in _____ might lead to an increased need for closure with age.
Select one:
a. personal control
b. possible selves
c. emotional selectivity
d. processing resources - CORRECT ANSWER -d. processing resources
3. When people develop explanations of another person's behaviour based on things outside the control of
the other person, this is know as a
Select one:
a. situational attribution.
,b. causal attribution.
c. causation.
d. dispositional attribution. - CORRECT ANSWER -a. situational attribution.
1. John is such a good person. This statement is an example of a
Select one:
a. situational attribution.
b. causal attribution.
c. causation.
d. dispositional attribution. - CORRECT ANSWER -d. dispositional attribution.
1. Alice has misplaced her keys (which rarely happens), but her grandchildren are very worried that
something might be wrong with grandma. Never mind that her granddaughter has done the same thing
three times this week. The above is an example of
Select one:
a. an age-based double standard.
b. an age-based stereotype.
c. the beginning signs of Alzheimer's disease.
d. senility - CORRECT ANSWER -a. an age-based double standard.
7. Before you are told the details about a car accident your friend was in, you are told that the other
person involved in the accident was an older man who is hard of hearing. Whether this information will
influence your social judgement of the event is related to your
Select one:
a. social context effect.
b. implicit priming.
c. implicit stereotyping
d. impression formation. - CORRECT ANSWER -c. implicit stereotyping
The likelihood that information in memory will be used to guide social judgments is related to
, Select one:
a. how easily the information can be accessed.
b. your social context base.
c. how quickly the information is processed.
d. your implicit memory. - CORRECT ANSWER -a. how easily the information can be accessed.
. Referring to older adults as golden agers or senile are examples of
Select one:
a. social scripts.
b. stereotypes.
c. situational attributions.
d. causal attributions. - CORRECT ANSWER -b. stereotypes.
The results of Bargh and colleagues on subliminal priming reveal that
Select one:
a. causal attributions of older adults are more likely to be dispositional in nature.
b. negative stereotypes are activated when we are unaware of them.
c. patronizing speech is common among nursing home workers.
d. personal control is related to memory performance. - CORRECT ANSWER -b. negative
stereotypes are activated when we are unaware of them.
. Gottman's research on the predictors of early divorce and later divorce found that
Select one:
a. positive emotion was an important predictor.
b. predictors might not apply across all income levels.
c. negative emotion was an important predictor.
d. all alternatives are true. - CORRECT ANSWER -d. all alternatives are true.
