PSY 3331 (UTD Social Psychology)
Exam And Answers.
The tendency most people have to discount situational explanations of behavior in favor of
personality characteristics or traits is called the________________ - Answer fundamental
attribution error
Liberman, Samuels, and Ross (2004) randomly assigned participants previously identified as
cooperative or competitive to play a game that was labeled either the Wall Street Game or the
Community Game. If their results had indicated that, no matter what the game, the participants
who were identified as competitive behaved more competitively in both groups than did
participants who were identified as cooperative, these findings would have suggested
that___________ - Answer cooperation and competition are based on personality
characteristics that are consistent across social situations
Jacob was pouring gravy when he dropped the ladle and splattered it all over the tablecloth. In
order to maintain his self-esteem, Jacob decided that_________ - Answer the ladle was
slippery and anyone would have dropped it
Although the fields of sociology and social psychology are related, what distinguishes social
psychology from the other? - Answer It examines the individual in the situation, whereas the
other examines broader societal issues.
Most of the early social psychologists arrived in the U.S. from________ - Answer Europe
Last weekend, Paula smiled politely while Lance talked to her for several hours. "Wow," thinks
Lance to himself, "she was so nice. Paula must really like me-she was so friendly!" Lance's
interpretation of Paula's behavior is an example of________ - Answer A construal
In the Wall Street Game and Community Game research, the personality traits of the student
participants________ - Answer had no measurable effect on the participants' behavior
How do social psychologists differ from those who rely on common sense or folk wisdom in
answering questions about human nature? Social psychologists________ - Answer use science
to test hypotheses about the social world
Exam And Answers.
The tendency most people have to discount situational explanations of behavior in favor of
personality characteristics or traits is called the________________ - Answer fundamental
attribution error
Liberman, Samuels, and Ross (2004) randomly assigned participants previously identified as
cooperative or competitive to play a game that was labeled either the Wall Street Game or the
Community Game. If their results had indicated that, no matter what the game, the participants
who were identified as competitive behaved more competitively in both groups than did
participants who were identified as cooperative, these findings would have suggested
that___________ - Answer cooperation and competition are based on personality
characteristics that are consistent across social situations
Jacob was pouring gravy when he dropped the ladle and splattered it all over the tablecloth. In
order to maintain his self-esteem, Jacob decided that_________ - Answer the ladle was
slippery and anyone would have dropped it
Although the fields of sociology and social psychology are related, what distinguishes social
psychology from the other? - Answer It examines the individual in the situation, whereas the
other examines broader societal issues.
Most of the early social psychologists arrived in the U.S. from________ - Answer Europe
Last weekend, Paula smiled politely while Lance talked to her for several hours. "Wow," thinks
Lance to himself, "she was so nice. Paula must really like me-she was so friendly!" Lance's
interpretation of Paula's behavior is an example of________ - Answer A construal
In the Wall Street Game and Community Game research, the personality traits of the student
participants________ - Answer had no measurable effect on the participants' behavior
How do social psychologists differ from those who rely on common sense or folk wisdom in
answering questions about human nature? Social psychologists________ - Answer use science
to test hypotheses about the social world
