Question 1

According to the Stereotype Content Model of behavioral tendencies, what are the two central dimensions around which stereotypes are organized?

Accepted Answer

A) Implicit and explicit prejudice 
B) Approach and avoidance 
C) Competence and warmth 
D) Self- and group-relevant appraisals

Question 2

Which of the following scenarios is not an example of a group emotion in action?

Accepted Answer

A) Soccer fans in a pub cheer with joy when their team scores 
B) Tensions build at an initially peaceful protest, and the protesters get progressively angrier and aggressive 
C) People throughout a nation become progressively more contemptuous about political corruption, and this contempt spreads across the population 
D) A student in an elementary school classroom starts behaving rambunctiously, and soon all the students are gleefully rebelling against the teacher 
E) All of the above are instances of group emotions

Question 3

Researchers generally agree that a ""group emotion"" process is unfolding when what occurs?

Accepted Answer

A) Members of a group experience a highly homogeneous emotion state 
B) One member of the group can be identified by the group as the ""instigator"" of the group emotion 
C) After one emotion spreads throughout the group, a second reactionary emotion must spread as well 
D) When an emotion occurs without any subsequent collective action 
E) All of the above are necessary for a situation to be an instance of a group emotion

Question 4

Anxiety during intergroup contact reduces people's attentional focus, preventing them from processing incoming information about individual members of an outgroup. What is one result of this?

Accepted Answer

A) Decreased negative affect 
B) Perceived outgroup homogeneity 
C) Stereotype disconfirmation 
D) Increased identification with the outgroup

Question 5

Which of the following theories posits that when a person's group identity is made salient, they tend to evaluate and interact with outgroup members using group emotions?

Accepted Answer

A) Intergroup Emotions Theory 
B) Sociofunctional Theory 
C) Implicit Prejudice Theory 
D) Behaviors from Intergroup Affect and Stereotypes Theory

Question 6

After Gustave Le Bon and other early social scientists studied crowds and crowd behaviors, the study of group emotions fell out of fashion. What contributed to the neglect of group emotions by psychologists for much of the 20th century?

Accepted Answer

A) Defining and measuring a ""group emotion"" proved conceptually and methodologically challenging 
B) After WWII, there was no more interest in general group processes or social influence 
C) For a long time, psychologists agreed that Le Bon had done all the work that needed to be done and had ""solved"" the group emotions question 
D) Both A and B 
E) All of the above

Question 7

What is it called when the physiology and emotion states of an infant and parent converge and become more similar?

Accepted Answer

A) Emotional synchrony 
B) Infant attunement 
C) Developmental drift 
D) Affect alignment

Question 8

A researcher hypothesizes that if a person associates a social group with a particular set of attributes that are generally undesirable, this will trigger negative feelings towards the group. Which of the following sequences best characterizes this researcher's proposed causal relationship?

Accepted Answer

A) Negative emotion → stereotype/prejudice 
B) Negative emotion → prejudice 
C) Prejudice → negative stereotype 
D) Stereotype → negative affect/prejudice

Question 9

In a study by Bavelas and colleagues (1986), participants who could make eye contact and be seen by a confederate in pain mimicked the pained expression more than participants who could not be seen by the confederate. This is an example of what emotion contagion process?

Accepted Answer

A) Communicative imitation 
B) Learning 
C) Social comparison 
D) Co-attention

Question 10

What happens to people's implicit prejudice when they are induced to feel a particular negative emotion like disgust or anger (Dasgupta et al., 2009)?

Accepted Answer

A) Negative emotions increase negative attitudes towards people in general, and this exacerbates all pre-existing prejudice 
B) Prejudice increases primarily towards groups whose perceived threat is associated with the induced emotion 
C) Anger increases prejudice towards outgroups, while disgust has no effect on prejudice 
D) All of the above

Exam 10: Emotion and Group Processes