Deck 1: Political Psychology: Introduction and Overview

Question 1

One reason people assume behavior is rational is because they:

A)Do not like emotions
B)Need to understand their world
C)Are correct, all behavior is rational
D)Have little imagination

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Personality is

A)Stable and resistant to chagne
B)Rarely imporatnt in politics
C)Not unique
D)Conciously understood by each person

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Social Identify

A)Refers to out-groups
B)Is not related to membership in political groups
C)Has nothing to do with race
D)Derives from membership in social groups

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Group demands of loyalty and obedience

A)Are always resisted when they push a person to violate personal values
B)Only affect people in non-individualistic societies
C)Can make a person violate his or her personal values
D)Are not particularly important in affecting political behavior

Question 5

Cognitive processes:

A)Are only used by smart people
B)Facilitate informaiton processing
C)Are only important in complex situations
D)Are little understood

Question 6

Attitudes are

A) Very resistant to change
B) Easily accessible to the perceiver
C) Not a particularly imporant focus of study in political psychology
D) Difficult to measure

Question 7

Values are

A)Deeply held beliefs about what is right and wrong
B)Another term for emotions
C)Attitudes that change easily
D)Rarely important in politics

Question 8

The core of the Political Being is

A)Personality
B)Emotions
C)Values
D)The Heart

Question 9

For data, psycoanalytic studies of political leaders tend to use

A)Experiments
B)Psychobiographies
C)Surveys
D)Brain scans

Question 10

Political psychology began with the study of

A)Personality and politics
B)The cognitive revolution
C)The study of voting behavior
D)The study of war

Question 11

A variable is:

A)The same thing as a hypothesis
B)A measurement instrument
C)Something that is thought to influence or be influenced by something else
D)Something that is not observable

Question 12

The second step in the scientific method is:

A)Formulating hypotheses
B)Making observations
C)Measuring variables
D)Developing a theory

Question 13

Political psychology is useful:

A)For explaining a wide variety of political behaviors
B)Only for understading the impact of leaders' personalities
C)Only for understanding why people vote the way they do
D)Only for understading infromation processing

Question 14

The first step in the scientific method involves:

A)Testing hypotheses
B)Making observations
C)Falsification
D)Developing a theory

Question 15

Generally, people are:

A)Perfect information processors
B)Rational when processing information
C)Illogical information processors
D)Imperfect information processors