Question: The stereotype content model suggests that the qualities of stereotypes can be classified along two dimensions: warmth and competence. According to the figure in your text (based on Cuddy et al., 2007), the Irish are high in both of these characteristics. If you endorse this stereotype of the Irish, you will conclude that the Irish person you just met
Answer Options: a) Has poor intentions and is capable. b) Has poor intentions and is not capable. c) Is well intentioned and is capable. d) Is well intentioned and is not capable.
Answer: c) Is well intentioned and is capable.
Question: Norman Triplett (1898) conducted what is widely regarded as social psychology’s first experiment. He found that children tended to perform a relatively easy task better while in the presence of another child doing the same task. This finding set the stage for research on
Answer Options: a) Dissonance. b) Social loafing. c) Social facilitation. d) Groupthink.
Answer: c) Social facilitation.
Question: In order to prevent the occurrence of groupthink, a group leader should
Answer Options: a) Increase the cohesiveness of the group. b) Refrain from making his or her opinion known at the beginning of the discussion. c) Decrease the group’s exposure to opinions of non–group members. d) Dismiss group members who are critical of the prevailing opinion.
Answer: b) Refrain from making his or her opinion known at the beginning of the discussion.
Question: Early studies showed that decisions made in groups were riskier than decisions made on one’s own. Later research, however, showed that group decisions are not always riskier than individual decisions but do tend to be more extreme. This phenomenon is captured by the concept of
Answer Options: a) Social loafing. b) Groupthink. c) Group polarization. d) Social inoculation.
Answer: c) Group polarization.
Question: Evaluation apprehension can __________ a task, and thereby leads to more pronounced social facilitation effects.
Answer Options: a) Increase how aroused we are during b) Increase how much positivity we put into c) Decrease how much positivity we put into d) Decrease how aroused we are during
Answer: a) Increase how aroused we are during
Question: Ginny just ran for student council president. Because of this change, Ginny may be more likely to be __________ in her decisions and actions.
Answer Options: a) Cautious b) Assertive c) Capable d) Avoidant
Answer: b) Assertive
Question: Which of the following scenarios best captures the definition of a group, as described in the textbook?
Answer Options: a) People who stand together during an elevator ride b) People who wait together in the same room for a job interview c) People who decide how to help a stranded motorist d) People who watch someone get stabbed while they are sitting on the same bus
Answer: c) People who decide how to help a stranded motorist
Question: Hildy is an efficient cleaner in a local business office. She usually works alone. However, last week, her supervisor came in to supervise her for her yearly review. This week, the office personnel were busy working late, and they were there while Hildy was working. Based on the concepts of social facilitation and mere presence, place Hildy’s cleaning times in order from slowest to fastest.
Answer Options: a) Alone, with the businesspeople, with the supervisor b) With the supervisor, with the businesspeople, alone c) With the businesspeople, with the supervisor, alone d) Alone, with the supervisor, with the businesspeople
Answer: d) Alone, with the supervisor, with the businesspeople
Question: Raymond is in a position where he is able to control his own outcomes and those of others. Which of the following terms best describes what Raymond possesses?
Answer Options: a) Status b) Power c) Authority d) Seniority
Answer: b) Power
Question: John decides to conduct an experiment to examine whether social comparison processes, rather than the persuasive arguments account, help explain why the group polarization effect occurs. To do so, John should expose individual group members to __________ to see if group polarization still occurs.
Answer Options: a) A pool of specific arguments that do not convey any information about the positions endorsed by the rest of the group b) The positions endorsed by the rest of the group without conveying the specific content of their arguments c) The positions endorsed by all others in the group and the specific content of their respective arguments d) A pool of specific arguments and ask them to guess which other group member(s) made them
Answer: b) The positions endorsed by the rest of the group without conveying the specific content of their arguments
Question: With his roommates, Jason participates in a group discussion on the merits of gun control. Once the discussion is over, Jason finds that he and his roommates have all adopted similarly strong pro–gun control attitudes. This is an example of
Answer Options: a) Social loafing. b) Groupthink. c) Group polarization. d) Social facilitation.
Answer: c) Group polarization.
Question: According to research on group polarization, people who make decisions in groups tend to make decisions that are more __________ than people who make decisions on their own.
Answer Options: a) Accurate b) Extreme c) Divided d) Conservative
Answer: b) Extreme
Question: All the findings regarding people with high or low power are consistent with the approach/inhibition theory of power EXCEPT that
Answer Options: a) People in a position of high power are less likely to take another’s perspective. b) Having high levels of power makes people think with less flexibility and creativity. c) People in positions of higher power are more likely to act in inappropriate ways. d) Feeling more power leads prejudiced Whites to focus more on Black employees’ weaknesses.
Answer: b) Having high levels of power makes people think with less flexibility and creativity.
Question: Daevon’s hockey coach used to be a goalie. When a puck came flying out of the rink and past them on the bench during a game, Coach reached up with his hand as if to catch the puck with the large glove that goalies wear. Coach was exhibiting a
Answer Options: a) Nondominant response. b) Novel response. c) Submissive response. d) Dominant response.
Answer: d) Dominant response