Quiz

QUIZ

1. According to dispositionism, what is the source of a person’s behavior?

a. The environment b. Other people’s expectations c. Specific personality traits d. One’s upbringing

Answer: c. Dispositionism relates to the idea that a person s behavior is based on certain personality traits rather than on external factors in the environment.

2. When a person has a fundamental attribution error, what is being overlooked at the time?

a. The current situation b. A person’s personality traits c. A person’s physical state d. A person’s past experiences

Answer: a. With the fundamental attribution error, the current situation is being overlooked and the person s personality traits are believed to be the cause of the person s behavior.

3. What is the major downside of the just-world hypothesis in social psychology?

a. Victim-blaming b. The world is seen as unpredictable c. People have a situational perspective on outcomes d. It results in a low self-esteem

Answer: a. There is victim blaming in cultures that believe in the justworld hypothesis because it is believed that people get what they deserve.

4. A person’s evaluation of an object, person, or idea is called what?

a. Persuasion b. Social norm c. Script d. Attitude

Answer: d. An attitude is an evaluation of an object, person, or idea. It tends overall to be either positive or negative, depending on the person and what they are evaluating.

5. In social psychology, what is the Asch effect related to?

a. Social conformity b. Social obedience c. Persuasion d. Compliance

Answer: a. The Asch effect explains why individuals conform to a group, even when they don t personally agree with what the group believes.

6. What is most required to have obedience?

a. A large number of people in a group b. A highly cohesive group c. A persuasive argument d. The presence of an authority figure

Answer: d. Obedience requires an authority figure who makes the request of a person or group, who then complies because they want to avoid the consequences of disobeying.

7. Blaming the out-group for problems and issues that happen to an in-group is called what?

a. Scapegoating b. Confirmation bias c. Self-fulfilling prophesy d. Discrimination

Answer: a. Scapegoating involves blaming the out-group for things that happen or do not happen to affect the in-group s success.

8. What is it called when aggression is tied to the need to harm someone out of anger toward them?

a. Bystander effect b. Hostile aggression c. Cyberbullying d. Instrumental aggression

Answer: b. Hostile aggression is direct aggression that comes out of anger and the desire to hurt someone or to cause them pain.

9. What is not true of attraction?

a. People form relationships with the most attractive person they encounter. b. There are differences in what’s attractive in men and what’s attractive in

women. c. Physical attractiveness can be culturally-related. d. There are physical and social aspects to attraction.

Answer: a. Each of these statements is true except that people form relationships with people they feel are about their same level of attractiveness.

10. When a couple has intimacy, passion, and commitment, what is this called?

a. Infatuation b. Liking c. Consummate love d. Empty love

Answer: c. Love has three components, passion, intimacy, and commitment. There are seven different types of love based on different combinations of these things. Consummate love has each of the components of love.