Question 1

J. Edgar Hoover may have kept extensive records of the sex lives of powerful people in order to keep anyone from exposing the potentially damaging fact that he was a homosexual. This fits with which fundamental goal?

Accepted Answer

A)  managing one's self-image 
B)  gaining social approval 
C)  gaining and maintaining status 
D)  supporting and protecting one's group

Question 2

Whereas archeologists hunt for fossils in the ground, psychologists can be said to seek fossils

Accepted Answer

A)  in artifacts of culture. 
B)  inside the head as psychological mechanisms. 
C)  in the books and journals people write. 
D)  in the behavior of animals.

Question 3

What was the purpose of the Bridging Function and Dysfunction section on J. Edgar Hoover?

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Question 4

Evolutionary explanations are more ultimate than are social cognitive explanations.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Francesca participates in sorority rush at her university. She chooses two sororities that she really likes, and one of these chooses her as a member. This is an example of

Accepted Answer

A)  a situation choosing the person. 
B)  a person changing a situation. 
C)  a situation changing a person. 
D)  different people reacting differently to the same situation.

Question 6

The two basic principles of social behavior are that

Accepted Answer

A)  situations change people and people change situations. 
B)  that social behavior is goal-oriented and represents a person-situation interaction. 
C)  that evolution affects psychology and psychology affects evolution. 
D)  that people are driven to gain status and to manager their self-image.

Question 7

Amitesh takes a social psychology class. He starts to think of himself as a social scientist and is inspired to pursue a Ph.D. in social psychology. This is an example of

Accepted Answer

A)  different persons responding differently to the same situation. 
B)  the person changing the situation. 
C)  the situation changing the person. 
D)  different situations priming different parts of the person.

Question 8

The distinction between automatic and thoughtful or effortful processing discussed in relation to attitude change is an example of the_________________perspective.

Accepted Answer

A)  social cognitive 
B)  evolutionary 
C)  social learning 
D)  sociocultural

Question 9

Broad-ranging questions about why humans generally form monogamous pair bonds are addressed by

Accepted Answer

A)  the evolutionary perspective. 
B)  proximate levels of explanation. 
C)  a focus on background and historical factors. 
D)  all of the above

Question 10

Studies of twins raised apart versus twins raised together are conducted with__________________________________methods.

Accepted Answer

A)  meta-analytic 
B)  factor analytic 
C)  behavior genetic 
D)  behavioral learning

Question 11

According to your textbook, one of the reasons that J. Edgar Hoover had a tendency to see communist associations was that he could easily bring to mind examples of communist associations. This cognitive bias is known as the_________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  representativeness heuristic 
B)  confirmation bias 
C)  availability heuristic 
D)  false consensus bias

Question 12

The central lesson of the Bridging Function and Dysfunction sections in your textbook is that

Accepted Answer

A)  disordered social behavior typically has a sociocultural cause. 
B)  disordered social behavior illustrates how the situation can change the person. 
C)  disordered social behavior often highlights and exaggerates normal psychological mechanisms. 
D)  abnormalities in brain chemistry are the primary reason for disordered social behavior.

Question 13

How do evolutionary psychologists study human behavior?

Accepted Answer

A)  by looking for cross-cultural differences in behavior 
B)  by living with gorillas or other primates and studying their behavior 
C)  by testing evolutionarily-based hypotheses in studies with humans 
D)  by examining individual differences in perceptions of reality

Question 14

Suppose that some researchers are investigating different social norms regarding multiple body piercings. This research is most closely related to the_________________approach.

Accepted Answer

A)  social learning 
B)  social cognitive 
C)  evolutionary 
D)  sociocultural

Question 15

From the sociocultural perspective, societal norms are features of the_________________that influence social behavior, whereas internal social standards are features of the_________________ that influence social behavior.

Accepted Answer

A)  person; situation 
B)  interaction; situation 
C)  situation; person 
D)  society; smaller group

Question 16

A research method that allows researchers to statistically combine the results of many similar studies on the same topic is

Accepted Answer

A)  structural equation analysis. 
B)  time-series analysis. 
C)  quasi-analysis. 
D)  meta-analysis.

Question 17

How has social psychology been applied to business, medicine, and or law? Discuss one application in each area, providing an example.

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Question 18

What is a confound and why is it a problem for researchers?

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Question 19

Francois associates with high status friends in order to gain and maintain status, whereas Antonio acts aggressively in order to gain and maintain status. What principle of social behavior does this situation illustrate?

Accepted Answer

A)  Different people use different behaviors to attain the same goal. 
B)  The same goals underlie different social behaviors. 
C)  Some behaviors are more effective for particular goals than others. 
D)  When people fail to gain status via association, they resort to aggression.

Question 20

Nancy finds out that her friends formed a study group and didn't invite her to join. Nancy begins to think badly of herself, and her self-esteem decreases. According to the work of Leary et al. (1995), self-esteem is acting as a_________________that tells Nancy she has been excluded.

Accepted Answer

A)  barometer 
B)  cyclometer 
C)  sociometer 
D)  neurometer

Exam 14: Integrating Social Psychology