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PSYCH301 Final Exam - Social Psychology
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MCQs on Social psychology, which is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.
 

PSYCH301 Final Exam - Social Psychology
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1. In North America, personal characteristics, such as empathy and cooperation, have a female connotation. Bem (1981) discussed this phenomenon in terms of what self-referent phenomenon?
2. The idea that positive outcomes should play a larger role in self-concept formation than negative outcomes is most closely associated with which of the following phenomena?
3. Social psychologists who study health-related applications would probably be most interested in:
4. Which of the following best captures some of the main functions of attitudes?
5. Which of the following best represents an important boundary condition that affects whether or not people comply following self-threat experiences?
6. Asch's experiments were a series of studies which demonstrated which social psychological phenomenon?
7. The arousal cost-reward model of helping posits that witnessing an emergency is emotionally arousing and is generally experienced as an uncomfortable tension that we, as bystanders, seek to decrease. Which concept does this sound the most similar to?
8. Basic research addresses fundamental questions about the nature of human social behavior, such as:
9. Relationship researchers in social psychology often study the factors related to interpersonal attraction. Please answer the question about the hypothetical situation that follows based on your knowledge of interpersonal attraction: John is a freshman undergraduate and has just moved to the dorms. With whom is John most likely to develop a relationship?
10. Which statement best represents the results presented in your reading regarding the self-handicapping phenomenon and the influence of gender?
11. When others are present, people often believe they are less personally responsible. This phenomenon is called:
12. Which topic is covered in the discussion section of an empirical journal article?
13. Loneliness is linked to all of the following factors except:
14. Which of the following statements is most accurate?
15. What is NOT a reason that physical attractiveness tends to lead to increased liking and better outcomes?
16. As a personnel psychologist, Chris would be most interested in:
17. The fact that social dominance orientation is positively correlated with levels of prejudice supports which of the following conclusions?
18. According to the social comparison theory, people are most likely to socially compare themselves to others in which situation?
19. Sometimes in social situations we look at what others are doing in order to decide if we are doing the correct thing. This phenomenon illustrates the influence of:
20. The degree to which we include others in self most directly affects which of the following?
21. At an outdoor flea market, you notice a vendor is offering free bookmarks at his stand. This vendor is probably hoping to increase the likelihood that people will buy from him through which persuasive principle in social psychology?
22. Which of the following best describes the concept of outgroup homogeneity?
23. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that proximity affects liking?
24. Johnny notices that Tommy is better at playing basketball than he is. In social psychology, we might say that Johnny is engaging in:
25. Which of the following best captures the current thinking/research on cognitive dissonance?

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