Psychology 10: Introduction to Psychology

1. People experience relative deprivation – the belief that they are getting less than they deserve – which is a process of:

a. Reference groups

b. Social cognition

c. Social comparison

d. Downward social comparison

e. None of the above

2. The focus on research which dealt with self-esteem and the ultimate terror (derived from terror management theory), was concerned with which fear?

a. Terrorist attacks

b. Water boarding

c. Death

d. Failing in school

e. Failing in marriage or other intimate relationship

3. Schemas are mental representations that we have of things or people. Schemas may affect:

a. How new information is interpreted

b. Our judgments about others’ behavior

c. Our perceptions of others

d. How we act toward others that leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy

e. All of the above

4. The tendency to see others’ behaviors as more likely due to internal factors is known as the:

a. Ultimate attribution error

b. Actor-observer bias

c. Fundamental attribution error

d. Self-serving bias

e. None of the above

5. Attitudes have three components: cognitive, affective, and __________.

a. Beliefs

b. Stereotypes

c. Feelings

d. Behaviors

e. All of the above

6. Elliot Aronson, working within the implications of the contact hypothesis, had students work together as a team to complete a task. This technique was called:

a. Groupthink

b. GroupEffort

c. ABC Succeed!

d. Jigsaw

e. Yes we can!

7. According to Robert Sternberg, the most complete and satisfying form of love is known as ____ love.

a. One night stand

b. Passionate

c. Romantic

d. Companionate

e. Consummate

8. The conformity experiments by Solomon Asch had research participants judge what sort of stimuli?

a. Faces

b. News stories

c. Lengths of lines

d. Colors

e. Freshman psychology term papers

9. In getting people to comply to a request, one strategy is to ask for a very large request (likely to be denied), then follow-up with a smaller request (where compliance is more likely). This strategy is known as:

a. Foot-in-the-door technique

b. Door-in-the-face technique

c. Low-ball approach

d. “But that’s not all!” technique

e. None of the above

10. In the study of altruism, one name has become widely known as evidence of the issue of the diffusion of responsibility. That name is of Kitty Genovese, who was a __________.

a. Murder victim

b. Social psychologist who did the first research in this area

c. Research assistant in the labs of Latane and Darley

d. Perpetrator of social loafing

e. A member of the original Groupthink