SOCIAL PSYCH 3331 FINAL QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
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Stress is widely viewed as Ans✓✓✓an unpleasant state of arousal.
Penelope tends to be hostile and angry much of the time. She recently
had an argument with her best friend, Daisy, who is much more
easygoing. Would it be advisable for Daisy to bring up the debated
subject again, perhaps after a significant period of time has elapsed?
Ans✓✓✓No, because Penelope, having a hostile nature, will exhibit
intense cardiovascular reactions even long after the argument by just
being reminded of it.
In interviews with hospital patients, Holmes and Rahe (1967) found that
illness was often preceded by a major life event. Their finding is
consistent with the hypothesis that Ans✓✓✓stress is caused by change.
As a symptom of experiencing burnout at work, women are more likely
to show ____ , while men are more likely to show ____.
Ans✓✓✓emotional exhaustion; depersonalization
As a means to cope with stress, what has research on thought
suppression shown? Ans✓✓✓suppressing the display of emotion is
physiologically taxing.
,Janoff-Bulman's (1979) research indicates that self-blame may be
adaptive in the long term when it is directed at one's ________ as
opposed to one's ________. Ans✓✓✓behavior; character
What is not a reason for why socioeconomic status is negatively
associated with the experience of daily hassles? Ans✓✓✓Children in
low-income families do not engage in any physical exercise
Which of the following statements best illustrates the adaptation-level
theory of happiness? Ans✓✓✓People who get a significant promotion
at work within one year only are just as happy as they were before the
promotion.
High levels of hostility have been found to predict Ans✓✓✓more
intense cardiovascular responses to events.
Research by Sbarra and colleagues (2011) showed that relative to their
married counterparts, people who were divorced at the start of the
prospective studies were later 23% more likely to die early from all
causes of death during follow-up assessments. This risk was most
elevated for ____________ Ans✓✓✓men and those younger than 65
years of age.
The state in which people in a group mistakenly think that their own
individual thoughts, feelings, or behaviors are different from those of
others in the group is called Ans✓✓✓pluralistic ignorance.
,Research on culture and helping indicates that collectivist cultures are
more likely to help their ____ and less likely to help their ____.
Ans✓✓✓ingroup; outgroup
One reason that perceived similarity may increase helping is that i
Ans✓✓✓provides a meaningful connection between the helper and the
person being helped.
Research suggests that if you are soliciting the help of strangers at the
mall, you are most likely to be successful if you Ans✓✓✓stand in front
of a bakery.
The bystander effect does not tend to occur when the bystanders are
Ans✓✓✓all friends.
As compared to feelings of personal distress, empathic concern
Ans✓✓✓is more cognitive in nature.
When people think they will be scorned by others for failing to help,
audience inhibition Ans✓✓✓decreases
Some research has found that bats shared food with both kin and nonkin
under safe conditions. When the conditions seemed dangerous, the bats
shared a much greater proportion of food with close relatives. This
finding is consistent with Ans✓✓✓kin selection.
, As demonstrated by the Good Samaritan study, people are less likely to
notice an emergency if they Ans✓✓✓are under time pressure.
Some cross-racial helping is not truly altruistic because it can be a sign
of Ans✓✓✓feelings of superiority over the person being helped.
Which of the following questions would a social psychologist be most
likely to study? Ans✓✓✓Is there a link between playing violent video
games and engaging in aggressive behavior?
The scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave when in
the real, implied, or imagined presence of others is called ____
psychology. Ans✓✓✓social
Why do social psychologists use the scientific method when studying
human behavior? Ans✓✓✓To replicate their findings
The term self-concept refers to Ans✓✓✓the sum total of a person's
beliefs concerning his or her own personal attributes.
Suppose an experiment was conducted where people were asked to
watch a political debate between two candidates who have been tied.
Half of the participants saw a videotape of the debate where the camera
focused on candidate A. The other half of the participants saw a
videotape of the debate where the camera focused on candidate B. It is
likely that Ans✓✓✓the group that viewed candidate A thought she was
VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS)
/ALREADY GRADED
Stress is widely viewed as Ans✓✓✓an unpleasant state of arousal.
Penelope tends to be hostile and angry much of the time. She recently
had an argument with her best friend, Daisy, who is much more
easygoing. Would it be advisable for Daisy to bring up the debated
subject again, perhaps after a significant period of time has elapsed?
Ans✓✓✓No, because Penelope, having a hostile nature, will exhibit
intense cardiovascular reactions even long after the argument by just
being reminded of it.
In interviews with hospital patients, Holmes and Rahe (1967) found that
illness was often preceded by a major life event. Their finding is
consistent with the hypothesis that Ans✓✓✓stress is caused by change.
As a symptom of experiencing burnout at work, women are more likely
to show ____ , while men are more likely to show ____.
Ans✓✓✓emotional exhaustion; depersonalization
As a means to cope with stress, what has research on thought
suppression shown? Ans✓✓✓suppressing the display of emotion is
physiologically taxing.
,Janoff-Bulman's (1979) research indicates that self-blame may be
adaptive in the long term when it is directed at one's ________ as
opposed to one's ________. Ans✓✓✓behavior; character
What is not a reason for why socioeconomic status is negatively
associated with the experience of daily hassles? Ans✓✓✓Children in
low-income families do not engage in any physical exercise
Which of the following statements best illustrates the adaptation-level
theory of happiness? Ans✓✓✓People who get a significant promotion
at work within one year only are just as happy as they were before the
promotion.
High levels of hostility have been found to predict Ans✓✓✓more
intense cardiovascular responses to events.
Research by Sbarra and colleagues (2011) showed that relative to their
married counterparts, people who were divorced at the start of the
prospective studies were later 23% more likely to die early from all
causes of death during follow-up assessments. This risk was most
elevated for ____________ Ans✓✓✓men and those younger than 65
years of age.
The state in which people in a group mistakenly think that their own
individual thoughts, feelings, or behaviors are different from those of
others in the group is called Ans✓✓✓pluralistic ignorance.
,Research on culture and helping indicates that collectivist cultures are
more likely to help their ____ and less likely to help their ____.
Ans✓✓✓ingroup; outgroup
One reason that perceived similarity may increase helping is that i
Ans✓✓✓provides a meaningful connection between the helper and the
person being helped.
Research suggests that if you are soliciting the help of strangers at the
mall, you are most likely to be successful if you Ans✓✓✓stand in front
of a bakery.
The bystander effect does not tend to occur when the bystanders are
Ans✓✓✓all friends.
As compared to feelings of personal distress, empathic concern
Ans✓✓✓is more cognitive in nature.
When people think they will be scorned by others for failing to help,
audience inhibition Ans✓✓✓decreases
Some research has found that bats shared food with both kin and nonkin
under safe conditions. When the conditions seemed dangerous, the bats
shared a much greater proportion of food with close relatives. This
finding is consistent with Ans✓✓✓kin selection.
, As demonstrated by the Good Samaritan study, people are less likely to
notice an emergency if they Ans✓✓✓are under time pressure.
Some cross-racial helping is not truly altruistic because it can be a sign
of Ans✓✓✓feelings of superiority over the person being helped.
Which of the following questions would a social psychologist be most
likely to study? Ans✓✓✓Is there a link between playing violent video
games and engaging in aggressive behavior?
The scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave when in
the real, implied, or imagined presence of others is called ____
psychology. Ans✓✓✓social
Why do social psychologists use the scientific method when studying
human behavior? Ans✓✓✓To replicate their findings
The term self-concept refers to Ans✓✓✓the sum total of a person's
beliefs concerning his or her own personal attributes.
Suppose an experiment was conducted where people were asked to
watch a political debate between two candidates who have been tied.
Half of the participants saw a videotape of the debate where the camera
focused on candidate A. The other half of the participants saw a
videotape of the debate where the camera focused on candidate B. It is
likely that Ans✓✓✓the group that viewed candidate A thought she was
