Deck 20: Issues and Themes in Social Psychology

Question 1

What concept describes the idea that people use and have limited cognitive resources available to them when perceiving others?

A) People as motivated tacticians.
B) People as cognitive misers.
C) People as naïve scientists.
D) Associative networks.

Answer 1

People as cognitive misers.

Question 2

A cognitive structure that represents our knowledge about something in our social world is called:

A) a social schema.
B) the actor-observer effect.
C) the just world hypothesis.
D) the social facilitation effect.

Answer 2

a social schema.

Question 3

Stereotypes are:

A) generalizations that a small number of people have about particular social groups.
B) social behaviours.
C) generalizations that a large number of people have about particular social groups.
D) an example of a social psychology research method.

Answer 3

generalizations that a large number of people have about particular social groups.

Question 4

Correlational research asks which question?

A) Does behaviour X happen?
B) By changing variable X will there be a change in variable Y?
C) Are there differences in response to variable X across groups of individuals?
D) Is variable X related to variable Y?

Question 5

Person schemata are:

A) expectations about other people based on our past experience or knowledge of them.
B) knowledge we have of ourselves concerning the roles we play in different situations.
C) knowledge we have of what we would normally expect in a range of situations.
D) how we process information about the 'self'.

Question 6

For social psychologists, the way in which we give meaning to information being received is through:

A) categorization.
B) priming.
C) learning.
D) genetics.

Question 7

What concept describes the idea that people select and use different cognitive strategies when perceiving others?

A) People as motivated tacticians.
B) People as cognitive misers.
C) People as naïve scientists.
D) The fundamental attribution error.

Question 8

Which of the following is FALSE of discourse analysis?

A) It involves the detailed analysis of language.
B) It does not try to test causal predictions.
C) It is designed to isolate interpretative repertoires.
D) It involves the observation and recording of naturally occurring events.

Question 9

Which of the following is TRUE of social constructionism?

A) Social constructionism is an approach grounded in positivism.
B) People are constructed by the historical and cultural context within which they exist.
C) Behaviour and not language is fundamental for understanding constructions,
D) There is a predictable and objective reality in the world which is observable through experimentation.

Question 10

Associative networks describe how:

A) people learn a new skill.
B) people's categories are related semantically.
C) people make decisions.
D) we respond to threats.

Question 11

Social psychology concerns which of the following?

A) How we think about other people and interact with groups.
B) How we learn to associate a stimulus with a response.
C) How we attend to certain things in our environment.
D) How we understand the cognitive development of the child.

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT an influential social psychologist?

A) Leon Festinger
B) Soloman Asch
C) Alan Baddeley
D) Henri Tajfel

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT a key assumption of social cognition?

A) People are motivated tacticians.
B) People are cognitive misers.
C) People are naïve scientists.
D) People are automata.

Question 14

Identifying rhetorical actions is central for which research strategy?

A) Field studies
B) Discourse analysis studies
C) Experimental studies
D) Survey studies

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT a fundamental ethical principle in social psychological research?

A) Informed consent
B) Debriefing
C) Right to privacy
D) Right of assembly

Question 16

Zimbardo's prison experiment concerned which of the following?

A) Visual perception
B) Child development
C) Role adoption
D) Artificial intelligence