SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAM PAPER 2026
TESTED QUESTIONS AND PRACTICE
SOLUTION
◉ Social Thinking. Answer: how we perceive ourselves and others,
what we believe, judgments we make and out attitudes (react
differently because we think differently)
◉ social relations. Answer: prejudice, aggression, attraction and
intimacy, helping
◉ Social influences. Answer: culture, pressures to conform,
persuasion, groups of people (shape our behavior) * Locality,
educational level, subscribed media, culture, ethnicity.
◉ theory. Answer: integrated set of principles that explain and
predict observed events
◉ impression management. Answer: process people use to control
perceptions about oneself (we play to an audience)
,◉ Experimental Research. Answer: studies that seek clues to cause-
effect relationship by manipulating one or more factors controlling
others
◉ Belief persistence. Answer: persistence of ones initial
conceptions, as when the basis for ones belief is discredited but an
explanation of why the belief might be true survives.
◉ Overconfidence. Answer: tendency to be more confident that
correct- can overestimate the accuracy of someone's beliefs.
◉ Conformation Bias. Answer: tendency to search for info that
confirms ones preconceptions.
◉ What does Conformation Bias explain?. Answer: self variation and
why our self images are so strong
◉ Attitude. Answer: favorable or unfavorable evaluation reaction
towards something or someone .
◉ students attitude toward cheating bore little reaction to the
likelihood of their cheating. Answer: attitude hardly predicted their
varying behaviors
, ◉ When do peoples attitudes predict behavior?. Answer: -social
influences on what we say are minimal.
-attitudes are specific to the behavior are ermined
- attitudes are potent
* self awareness, forge strong attitudes through experiences, and
peoples other influences on behavior are minimal
◉ Implicit. Answer: biases are pervasive, people differ in implicit
bias, and people are often unaware of their implicit bias
◉ explicit. Answer: people are aware of their biases.
◉ When does behavior affect attitudes?. Answer: Role playing,
Zimbardos standfrod prison study, abu ghraib controversy
◉ Role playing. Answer: set of norms that defines how people in a
give social position ought to behave
◉ Zimbardos Prison Study. Answer: turned student into guards and
the other half prisoners by a coin toss. It altered the way the people
behaved after role playing. We enact a role that shapes our attitude.
saying becomes believing. The deeper meaning of the role playing is
that we are powerless machines. Behavior is a product of both the
individual person and the situation. The study appeared to have
attracted volunteers who were prone to aggressiveness.
TESTED QUESTIONS AND PRACTICE
SOLUTION
◉ Social Thinking. Answer: how we perceive ourselves and others,
what we believe, judgments we make and out attitudes (react
differently because we think differently)
◉ social relations. Answer: prejudice, aggression, attraction and
intimacy, helping
◉ Social influences. Answer: culture, pressures to conform,
persuasion, groups of people (shape our behavior) * Locality,
educational level, subscribed media, culture, ethnicity.
◉ theory. Answer: integrated set of principles that explain and
predict observed events
◉ impression management. Answer: process people use to control
perceptions about oneself (we play to an audience)
,◉ Experimental Research. Answer: studies that seek clues to cause-
effect relationship by manipulating one or more factors controlling
others
◉ Belief persistence. Answer: persistence of ones initial
conceptions, as when the basis for ones belief is discredited but an
explanation of why the belief might be true survives.
◉ Overconfidence. Answer: tendency to be more confident that
correct- can overestimate the accuracy of someone's beliefs.
◉ Conformation Bias. Answer: tendency to search for info that
confirms ones preconceptions.
◉ What does Conformation Bias explain?. Answer: self variation and
why our self images are so strong
◉ Attitude. Answer: favorable or unfavorable evaluation reaction
towards something or someone .
◉ students attitude toward cheating bore little reaction to the
likelihood of their cheating. Answer: attitude hardly predicted their
varying behaviors
, ◉ When do peoples attitudes predict behavior?. Answer: -social
influences on what we say are minimal.
-attitudes are specific to the behavior are ermined
- attitudes are potent
* self awareness, forge strong attitudes through experiences, and
peoples other influences on behavior are minimal
◉ Implicit. Answer: biases are pervasive, people differ in implicit
bias, and people are often unaware of their implicit bias
◉ explicit. Answer: people are aware of their biases.
◉ When does behavior affect attitudes?. Answer: Role playing,
Zimbardos standfrod prison study, abu ghraib controversy
◉ Role playing. Answer: set of norms that defines how people in a
give social position ought to behave
◉ Zimbardos Prison Study. Answer: turned student into guards and
the other half prisoners by a coin toss. It altered the way the people
behaved after role playing. We enact a role that shapes our attitude.
saying becomes believing. The deeper meaning of the role playing is
that we are powerless machines. Behavior is a product of both the
individual person and the situation. The study appeared to have
attracted volunteers who were prone to aggressiveness.
