Question 1

Observing yourself on a video replay is most likely to increase your tendency to attribute your behavior to

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A)   cognitive dissonance.
B)   role playing.
C)   personality traits.
D)   attitudes.E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 2

When conflicts between parties become intense,a third-party mediator will try to help these parties reach

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A)   a mutually beneficial resolution.
B)   mirror-image perceptions.
C)   altruistic goals.
D)   superordinate goals.E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 3

The country of Superlia increased the size of its military force because its leaders inappropriately anticipated that their rival,the country of Piropia,would do the same.The Piropians subsequently felt it was necessary to respond to the Superlian military buildup with a military expansion of their own.The Piropian response best illustrates the danger of

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A)   social responsibility.
B)   the mere exposure effect.
C)   self-fulfilling prophecies.
D)   the reciprocity norm.E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 4

A gradual escalation of intimacy is most positively related to a gradual escalation of

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A)   altruism.
B)   reciprocity norm.
C)   equity.
D)   self-disclosure.E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 5

The impact of our actions on our attitudes is best illustrated by

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A)   the fundamental attribution error.
B)   the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.
C)   central route persuasion.
D)   peripheral route persuasion.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 6

Individuals who are normally law-abiding may vandalize and loot when they become part of a mob.This change in behavior is best understood in terms of

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A)   social facilitation.
B)   groupthink.
C)   deindividuation.
D)   group polarization.E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 7

Sherif planned a disruption of the water supply in a Boy Scout camp in order to observe how social relationships are influenced by

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A)   reciprocity norms.
B)   social-responsibility norms.
C)   superordinate goals.
D)   the mere exposure effect.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 8

Which of the following is most clearly supported by research on social attraction?

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A)   The beautiful are the lonely.
B)   Birds of a feather flock together.
C)   Familiarity breeds contempt.
D)   Absence makes the heart grow fonder.E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 9

The high levels of obedience in the Milgram experiments are LEAST likely to be attributable to

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A)   the perceived legitimacy of the commanding authority figure.
B)   an aspect of gender-related behavior found only in males.
C)   the placement of "teacher" and "learner" in separate rooms.
D)   the very gradual increase in shock level ordered after each new learning error.E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 10

Isabella is angry because her boyfriend is late meeting her at the movie theater.She thinks that it is because he is unreliable and inconsiderate,when in fact he is late because a meeting at work ran late.Isabella has committed

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A)   the fundamental attribution error.
B)   an attitude.
C)   the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.
D)   cognitive dissonance.E) B) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 11

Rhonda has just learned that her neighbor Patricia was involved in an automobile accident at a nearby intersection.The tendency to make the fundamental attribution error may lead Rhonda to conclude

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A)   "Patricia's brakes must have failed."
B)   "Patricia's recklessness has finally gotten her into trouble."
C)   "Patricia's children probably distracted her."
D)   "The road must have been wet and slippery."E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 12

The mere exposure effect refers to the fact that people

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A)   are more likely to help people who are nearby.
B)   tend to help those who are most like them.
C)   are more likely to become friends with attractive people.
D)   experience increasing attraction to novel stimuli that become more familiar.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 13

Using the Asch procedure,conformity to group judgments would be LEAST likely when

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A)   participants announce their own answers only after the other group members have done so.
B)   participants are not observed by other group members when giving their answers.
C)   it is very difficult to make correct judgments.
D)   judgments are made in a group that has more than three people.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 14

The tendency to estimate the frequency of an event by how readily it comes to mind is referred to as

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A)   explicit bias.
B)   the just-world phenomenon.
C)   the availability heuristic.
D)   ingroup bias.E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 15

Erica is watching the local news and hears a news commentator say,"The doctor deserved to become infected with the Ebola virus because he chose to help those infected people in Africa." This attitude illustrates

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A)   the just-world phenomenon.
B)   outgroup homogeneity.
C)   scapegoat theory.
D)   stereotyping.E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 16

Cognitive dissonance theory emphasizes that we seek to reduce the discomfort we feel when we become aware that

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A)   our attitudes and actions clash.
B)   our efforts to achieve a goal have been blocked.
C)   we have overestimated the impact of personal dispositions on behavior.
D)   others' pursuit of their self-interest can harm our well-being.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 17

Social norms are best described as

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A)   generalized beliefs about various groups of people.
B)   people's explanations for their own behaviors.
C)   rules for socially expected and accepted behavior.
D)   feelings that predispose our reactions to events.E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 18

Research has shown that if you are the minority in a group,you are more likely to influence the majority if you

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A)   hold firmly to your position.
B)   are popular in the group.
C)   are generally an influential person.
D)   have low self-confidence.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 19

In Milgram's obedience experiments,"teachers" were most likely to deliver high levels of shock when

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A)   the experimenter was perceived to be an ordinary college student like themselves.
B)   the "learner" was placed in a different room from the "teacher."
C)   they saw that other "learners" disobeyed the experimenter.
D)   they saw how "learners" who disobeyed the experimenter were punished.E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 20

In Milgram's experiments,participants were torn between whether they should respond to the pleas of the ________ or the demands of the ________.

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A)   obedient role model;"teacher"
B)   "teacher";"learner"
C)   "teacher";defiant role model
D)   "learner";experimenterE) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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