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more Sample questiosn for final Spring 09Please clearly mark your scantron (form 2052 available in the bookstore) with the correct answer. Make sure you erase any mistakes thoroughly. Please turn in your scantrons at the beginning of class on 5/14. This means within the first fifteen minutes of class. You must hand me your scantron personally. No outside or intermediary personas are to be allowed to hand in your work. All work must be your own, and there is to be no discussion or exchange of information. If you have questions please email me.
Questions 1- 31 are true or false: On your scantron please mark "a" for true and "b" for false.
1. A value is an enduring evaluation of a person, idea or object.
2. The social self refers to how we are regarded and recognized by others.
3. The Fundamental Attribution Error occurs only once per relationship.
4. Social identites are multiple and heriarchal.
5. Shelley Taylor found that a traumatic event could be more easily recovered from if the person held a optimistic attitude overall
6. The “self” in media studies is usually referred to as the baseline of straight white male, while the “other” is anything that is not.
7. A correlative study shows a possible relationship only.
8. Gender is argued as superstitious in nature.
9. The theoretic difference between pure and applied research is the difference between research for its own sake and research to solve specific problems.
10. Jealousy is usually an example of social comparison.
11. When a teacher expects a student to perform well, that student usually fails more than another student about whom there are not teacher beliefs.
12. The halo effect refers to qualities that we cluster together in reference to others.
13. Children who were led to believe that they would be eating more of a vegetable that they did not like in the future, succeeding in convincing themselves that the vegetable was not so bad.
14. Reading a magazine can influence self-concept
15. The reduction of dissonance is the primary motivator of all behavior.
16. A person who explains her behavior away as "a bad day" is attributing a dispositional reason.
17. Silence (non arguing) equates to agreement in many social settings..
18. A social role is one that relates to how we behave in a given situation
19. Your sexuality is a social role.
20. A schema is a representation based on the availability heuristic
21. A low self-monitor will try to make sure that all members of a group are feeling happy
22. A high self-monitor usually makes a great actress
23. Image maintenance is directly in line with self-monitoring
24. A self-schema will influence a person’s choice of activity.
25. First impressions are usually lasting ones.
26. Cognitive misership implies that we do not want to expend the energy to think past what we think we know
27. Cognitive dissonance is the motive for most behavior
28. When someone is justifying the system, they are striving to maintain the status quo.
29. Identity is a construction of self
30. A self-justifying remark by another makes us discount them
31. Constructions of self are made by comparisons with others.
Questions 32 – 50 are multiple choice. On your scantron, please indicate the BEST possible answer by filling in the corresponding bubble
32. The scientific method allows us to
a. support popular opinion.
b. maintain traditions.
c. justify our values.
d. test questions and refine knowledge.
33. A hypothesis is an assumption or a best guess that
a. becomes a selection factor in research.
b. is accepted if it is popular.
c. can be tested by gathering evidence.
d. provides an operational definition.
34. Attribution theory argues that we initially judge a person based on all of the following except:
a. Race
b. Ethnicity<br.
c. Age
d. Gender
35. Whereas Americans have a proverb, "The squeaky wheel gets the grease," Japanese have a proverb that states "The nail that stands out gets pounded down." These two different proverbs mirror social-psychological research that has demonstrated that people in Asian cultures
a. are more authoritarian than Americans.
b. are more likely to defer to authority than are Americans.
c. have a more interdependent concept of self than do Americans.
d. do not hold differentiated self-concepts.
36. Daniel Gilbert and Patrick Malone (1995) have pointed out that we often fall prey to the fundamental attribution error because
a. we seldom if ever know how actors interpret information about the situation.
b. although there are taxonomies of people, there are no taxonomies of situations.
c. understanding current behavior is of no help in predicting future behavior.
d. we seldom if ever have consensus information.
37. The actor/observer difference is the tendency to see other people's behavior as _____, while making ______ attributions about our own behavior.
a. dispositional; situational
b. situational; stable
c. unstable; dispositional
d. distinctive; stable
38. According to cognitive dissonance theory, soldiers may reduce their guilt about killing innocent civilians during wartime by
a. dehumanizing their victims.
b. killing more enemy soldiers.
c. going into therapy.
d. telling themselves that the war is almost over.
39. You have worked extremely hard to attain a goal, but soon realize that the goal is not as exciting as you expected. You will probably
a. exaggerate the positive qualities of the goal in order to justify your effort.
b. exaggerate the negative qualities of the goal in order to attain sympathy.
c. carefully analyze the reasons why you worked so hard to attain the goal.
d. deny that you ever believed that the goal was exciting.
40. According to the Ben Franklin effect, the best way to get someone to like you is to:
a. give them something
b. ask them about themselves
c. ask to borrow a book
d. share personal stories
41. When the results of an experiment are published, it is important to include details as to how the evidence was collected and evaluated. This allows other scientists to _______________ the research.
a. read
b. replicate
c. select
d. experience
42. Would a sample of children from an affluent suburban school district be considered a representative sample of American children?
a. Yes, because public education is available to all children.
b. No, because affluent suburban schools tend to be less racially, ethnically, and economically diverse than the nation as a whole.
c. No, because they are nothing like the average American child.
d. Yes, because they have all the advantages and none of the disadvantages.
43. A person from North Carolina who explains his reasons for smoking as aiding in the local economy is engaging in which social phenomenon?
a. Social identity
b. Self justification
c. Self schema
d. Self referent
44. If you were to form your impression of all professors based only on your experiences with psychology professors, you would have fallen prey to
a. biased sampling.
b. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
c. self-fulfilling prophecy.
d. the illusory correlation.
45. The first day of class, Maria absolutely loved her new social psychology professor, but Daniel couldn't stand her. If their interpretations were influenced by schemas, in all likelihood, Maria had heard _____, whereas Daniel had heard _____
a. that the professor was great; nothing about the professor .
b. nothing about the professor; that the professor was horrible.
c. that the professor was great; that the professor was horrible.
d. that the professor was a high self-monitor; that the professor was a low self-monitor.
46. When someone believes something to be true because that has been *their* experience, it is referred to as all of the following except:
a. Opinion
b. Reliable
c. Self referent
d. Perspective
47. Which of the following is NOT a true statement about privilege.
a. If white people change their attitudes racism will not exist.
b. Interlocking oppressions take active forms both seen and unseen.
c. Skin color confers rights and opportunities.
d. Compulsory heterosexuality is an unseen form of privilege.
48. A mental representation of a person, place, or thing that evokes an emotional response and related behavior is
a. a cognition.
b. an attitude.
c. a stereotype.
d. all of the above.
49.. John's parents never cared for Southerners. They thought Southerners were slow and lazy. John often heard them make jokes about the South. John is being transferred to Alabama and he knows he won't like it because of the people there. He acquired this attitude through _______________ learning.
a. classical
b. observational
c. operant
d. distance
50. Claude Steele speaks of social contingencies in relation to social identity, Identify the situation in which this does not occur
a. An African American basketball player who can really play
b. A veterenarian who owns three cats and two dogs.
c. A college professor who is a hard grader
d. A soldier who does not believe in war
Discuss
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