Question 1

According to social psychologists, each person's subjective awareness of, and ideas about, his or her own individual nature, characteristics, and very existence, is called

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A)   the ego
B)   the self
C)   consciousness
D)   social awareness

Question 2

An evaluative response to some person, idea, object, or event, or a feeling about one of those things, is called a(n)

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A)   attitude
B)   behaviour
C)   belief
D)   attribution

Question 3

The anxiety we perceive when we become aware of the conflict between our behaviour and our attitudes is called

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A)   cognitive dissonance
B)   self-serving bias
C)   attribution syndrome
D)   fundamental attribution anxiety

Question 4

All of the following are results from longitudinal studies of studies of self-control, EXCEPT:

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A)   High self-control children scored higher on SATs.
B)   High self-control children were less likely to become bullies.
C)   High self-control children were less likely to become obese.
D)   Low self-control children are generally healthier and happier.

Question 5

According to the strength model of self-control,

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A)   self-control exists in a limited quantity that differs among people
B)   self-control is learned mainly through modelling
C)   self-control exists in moderate qualities among all people
D)   self-control is related to the development of the self-concept

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a form of self-serving bias

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A)   Attributing your successes to your own effort
B)   Overestimating your own contributions
C)   Going out of your way to help others
D)   Overestimating your positive attributes relative to others

Question 7

Laying aside a powerful, immediate desire, response, or goal in the service of more important, overriding long-term goals is called

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A)   self-control
B)   self-regulation
C)   self-efficacy
D)   self-esteem

Question 8

The main problem with research on the fundamental attribution error is that

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A)   most behaviour is the result of situational causes
B)   it is very difficult to define where a situation ends and a person begins
C)   people often are not honest in attributing causes to their own behavior
D)   situational causes are merely illusions

Question 9

Consensus is high when most people would behave in the same way in the same situation, whereas _________is high when the person regularly behaves in the same way when in that kind of situation.

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Question 10

Baker and Emery (1993)  surveys American couples applying for marriage licenses and asked them to estimate the percentage of marriages that end in divorce and the probability that their own marriage would fail. Which of the following statements is NOT true

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A)   Couples underestimated the probability that their own marriage would fail
B)   Couples correctly estimated the percentage of marriages that end in divorce
C)   Couples correctly estimated the probability that their own marriage would fail
D)   Participants showed unrealistic optimism in this study

Question 11

Social psychology is the scientific study of the influence of social situations on individuals, and the influence of individuals on social situations.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

The human tendency to make judgment errors that are in favour of your own self is called the

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A)   fundamental attribution error
B)   confidence bias
C)   self-serving bias
D)   social comparison error

Question 13

Leon Festinger (1954)  is best know for his theory of

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A)   Aggression
B)   altruism
C)   Social comparison
D)   Attribution

Question 14

Mischel and colleagues found that children who were able to exert self-control in the laboratory went on to earn high SAT scores in high school and went on to higher academic achievements.

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A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 15

The fact that people who exhibit self-control in one situation often exhibit self-control in other situation is evidence that self-control is

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A)   learned through experience
B)   present from birth
C)   a human trait
D)   a pattern of learning C

Question 16

Many aspects of social psychology involve psychological defence of the self. Describe psychological self-defence in cases of the self-serving bias and in terms of social comparison theory and cognitive dissonance.

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Psychological self-defence is a concept ...

Question 17

__________is the aspect of self-regulation which involves suppressing a powerful immediate desire or goal in the service of a more important overriding long-term goal.

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Self-control

Question 18

A __________takes place when we infer that an action corresponds to the actor's intentions and hence we can make a judgement about their disposition.

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correspond...

Question 19

Researchers during the 1980s observed that people do NOT

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A)   only compare themselves to similar others
B)   always compare them to similar others
C)   only compare themselves to dissimilar others
D)   make social comparisons

Question 20

Which of the following is a cognitive bias towards attributing our own behaviour to situational factors, but others' behaviour to dispositional factors

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A)   Experimenter-observer bias
B)   Attribution bias
C)   Actor-observer bias
D)   Negativity bias

Exam 20: Social Cognition

According to social psychologists, each person's subjective awareness of, and ideas about, his or her own individual nature, characteristics, and very existence, is called

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An evaluative response to some person, idea, object, or event, or a feeling about one of those things, is called a(n)

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The anxiety we perceive when we become aware of the conflict between our behaviour and our attitudes is called

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All of the following are results from longitudinal studies of studies of self-control, EXCEPT:

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According to the strength model of self-control,

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Which of the following is NOT a form of self-serving bias

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Laying aside a powerful, immediate desire, response, or goal in the service of more important, overriding long-term goals is called

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The main problem with research on the fundamental attribution error is that

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Consensus is high when most people would behave in the same way in the same situation, whereas _________is high when the person regularly behaves in the same way when in that kind of situation.

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Baker and Emery (1993) surveys American couples applying for marriage licenses and asked them to estimate the percentage of marriages that end in divorce and the probability that their own marriage would fail. Which of the following statements is NOT true

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Social psychology is the scientific study of the influence of social situations on individuals, and the influence of individuals on social situations.

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The human tendency to make judgment errors that are in favour of your own self is called the

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Leon Festinger (1954) is best know for his theory of

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The fact that people who exhibit self-control in one situation often exhibit self-control in other situation is evidence that self-control is

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Researchers during the 1980s observed that people do NOT

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