Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis

PSY-B 370

Extra credit: Chapter 1

1)If students eat breakfast every morning before school, they will perform better on the social psychology exam than students who do not eat breakfast every morning. This is an example of what?

1. 1. Forming a theory
   2. Creating a hypothesis
   3. Conducting research
   4. None of the above
2. Which of the following is art of the neurologist Antonio Damasio’s division of emotion?
   1. Background emotions
   2. Primary emotions
   3. Secondary emotions
   4. All the above
3. Which of the following is NOT the three basic motives that influence thinking about the social world?
   1. The need for accurate knowledge
   2. The need for nonspecific closure
   3. The need for non-accurate knowledge
   4. The need for specific closure
4. Emily is reminiscing about the time of a her 7^th birthday party when her mother and father got her a red razor scooter. Emily is now 20 years old, she is obtaining her memories from     memory.
   1. Short-term
   2. Long-term
   3. Episodic
   4. None of the above
5. What type of comparison is going on when individuals are comparing themselves with people who are better off?
   1. Upward comparison
   2. Downward comparison
   3. Better than average comparison
   4. Social comparison
6. Which of the following are primary ways to reduce cognitive dissonance?
   1. Change of the cognitions
   2. Trivialize the conditions that are inconsistent
   3. Add a third cognition
   4. All above are ways to reduce cognitive dissonance

7. What was the outcome of the Asch conformity studies?
   1. The participants continued with their own answers even though the others agreed on something different.
   2. Many of the participants went along with the group judgement even when

their senses told them the judgment was incorrect.

7. 3. Many of the participants chose to not cooperate with the study: therefore, the results were affected, and the studies were discontinued.
   4. The participants all went with their own sense, even when the others were correct.
8. If your asking if the audience is motivated and able to elaborate on the persuasive message and your answer is “No”, which route of persuasion should you take?
   1. Central route
   2. Peripheral route
   3. Elaboration route
   4. No specific route
9. A group is cohesive when its members:
   1. Share a common identity based on similar characteristics, goals, or challenges
   2. Have different interest that some how connect to the others: opposites attract
   3. Share a common bond
   4. Both A & B
10. What is symbolic racism?
    1. The influence on White Americans’ racial attitudes by two clashing sets of values: a belief in individualism and a belief in egalitarianism
    2. Conflicting, often nonconscious, negative feelings about African Americans may

have, even though most do in fact support principles of racial equality and do not knowingly discriminate

1. 3. A tendency to express negative biases held about a racial outgroup not at the

group directly, but at social policies seen as benefiting that group

10. 4. Viewing the world through our own cultural value system and thereby judging actions and people based on our own culture’s views of right and wrong and good and bad.
11. High Social dominance orientated individuals:
    1. View the social world as dangerous
    2. Are competitively driven to maintain the dominance of some groups over others
    3. Are motivated to maintain collective security
    4. Are prejudiced against groups that threaten to disrupt collective security because they appear dangerous or deviant

12. Freud said that if people have a will to live (                       ), they must logically harbor a will to die (              ).
    1. Evolutionary; Thanatos
    2. Thantos; Eros
    3. Eros; Thantos
    4. Eros; Evolutionary
13. Which feeling is considered prosocial?
    1. Guilt
    2. A communal feeling
    3. Feeling socially secure