SOCIAL PYSCHOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS
AND THEIR RESPECTIVE ANSWERS
Behaviorists would suggest our social cognition
depends on two kinds of learning:
Operant learning and associational learning
Employing classical conditioning, a famous
hamburger chain uses bikini models in its
advertisements, hoping that the viewer:
Will experience pleasant emotions when seeing their logo
in the future
The Bobo Doll took a beating for science. Which
principles were tested with this experiment?
Observational learning
An experimenter gets the best available horoscopes
for the day and systematically gives them to people to
whom they do not apply, telling the recipients they are
accurate. When the recipients believe the information
in the horoscopes describes them well, this might be
an example of:
Conformational bias
Automatic processing occurs:
Largely unconsciously and quickly
Plane crashes are international news; car crashes are
rarely mentioned. When you are more afraid of flying
than driving, this is an example of:
The availability heuristic
,When white-nationalist group Citizens for
Constitutional Freedom occupied the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge in 2016, they expected support from
the public in terms of both praise and material
support. They were surprised to receive neither; most
people disagreed with their politics, philosophy, and
actions. This is an example of:
False consensus effect
Because of counterfactual thinking:
The silver medalist is more disappointed than the bronze
medalist
90% of psychotherapists rate themselves in the top
10% of psychotherapists. This is almost certainly an
example of:
Overconfidence
Eyewitnesses in court tend to be very confident of
their testimony. This confidence is:
Unjustified
According to the textbook, evolutionary adaptation
has provided humans with two fundamental motives.
These two motives are _______.
Self concern and other concern
In order of likelihood, rate the odds of a human saving
another human according to kin selection theory:
A close relative, a distant relative, a stranger
An awkward person who has trouble understanding
and predicting the behavior of other people has
difficulty with:
Social Cognition
One's feelings of liking or disliking towards a group of
people is their:
, Attitude
Scientific ideas should:
Withstand scrutiny
Replication is one form of:
External validity
Research has shown that people find those with
symmetrical faces to be more physically attractive. An
EVOLUTIONARY explanation for this finding would
be...
Symmetrical faces are correlated with good health, so
early humans who mated with those who had symmetrical
faces were more likely to have healthy offspring.
One reads the results of a study and, recalling many
anecdotes that confirm those findings, thinks the
study was unnecessary because it was just obvious.
This is an example of:
Hindsight bias
A pharmacologist wants to know if their new
invention, a smart pill, is effective. They give the pill to
one group of children and a placebo to another.
Whether a child receives the compound or the placebo
is:
The independent variable
Experiments allow careful assertion of causality
because of:
Random assignment and control conditions
Ellen missed her train by just one minute. She thinks
"If I had just run across the street when the traffic light
was yellow, instead of waiting, I would have made my
train." Ellen is engaging in....
Counterfactual thinking
AND THEIR RESPECTIVE ANSWERS
Behaviorists would suggest our social cognition
depends on two kinds of learning:
Operant learning and associational learning
Employing classical conditioning, a famous
hamburger chain uses bikini models in its
advertisements, hoping that the viewer:
Will experience pleasant emotions when seeing their logo
in the future
The Bobo Doll took a beating for science. Which
principles were tested with this experiment?
Observational learning
An experimenter gets the best available horoscopes
for the day and systematically gives them to people to
whom they do not apply, telling the recipients they are
accurate. When the recipients believe the information
in the horoscopes describes them well, this might be
an example of:
Conformational bias
Automatic processing occurs:
Largely unconsciously and quickly
Plane crashes are international news; car crashes are
rarely mentioned. When you are more afraid of flying
than driving, this is an example of:
The availability heuristic
,When white-nationalist group Citizens for
Constitutional Freedom occupied the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge in 2016, they expected support from
the public in terms of both praise and material
support. They were surprised to receive neither; most
people disagreed with their politics, philosophy, and
actions. This is an example of:
False consensus effect
Because of counterfactual thinking:
The silver medalist is more disappointed than the bronze
medalist
90% of psychotherapists rate themselves in the top
10% of psychotherapists. This is almost certainly an
example of:
Overconfidence
Eyewitnesses in court tend to be very confident of
their testimony. This confidence is:
Unjustified
According to the textbook, evolutionary adaptation
has provided humans with two fundamental motives.
These two motives are _______.
Self concern and other concern
In order of likelihood, rate the odds of a human saving
another human according to kin selection theory:
A close relative, a distant relative, a stranger
An awkward person who has trouble understanding
and predicting the behavior of other people has
difficulty with:
Social Cognition
One's feelings of liking or disliking towards a group of
people is their:
, Attitude
Scientific ideas should:
Withstand scrutiny
Replication is one form of:
External validity
Research has shown that people find those with
symmetrical faces to be more physically attractive. An
EVOLUTIONARY explanation for this finding would
be...
Symmetrical faces are correlated with good health, so
early humans who mated with those who had symmetrical
faces were more likely to have healthy offspring.
One reads the results of a study and, recalling many
anecdotes that confirm those findings, thinks the
study was unnecessary because it was just obvious.
This is an example of:
Hindsight bias
A pharmacologist wants to know if their new
invention, a smart pill, is effective. They give the pill to
one group of children and a placebo to another.
Whether a child receives the compound or the placebo
is:
The independent variable
Experiments allow careful assertion of causality
because of:
Random assignment and control conditions
Ellen missed her train by just one minute. She thinks
"If I had just run across the street when the traffic light
was yellow, instead of waiting, I would have made my
train." Ellen is engaging in....
Counterfactual thinking
