Question 1

Naturalist fallacy is

Accepted Answer

A)  the error of defining what is good in terms of what is observable.
B)  a flawed scientific description.
C)  that all psychology can be defined through nature.
D)  the error of defining what is normal is observable. A

Question 2

The text states that values

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A)  enter the picture with our choice of research topics.
B)  are unimportant in the study of social psychology.
C)  do not influence the type of people attracted to various academic disciplines.
D)  tell us which ones are right. A

Question 3

Which country had the highest conformity percentage when Asch's conformity experiment was conducted overseas?

Accepted Answer

A)  Lebanon
B)  Hong Kong
C)  the Bantu of Zimbabwe
D)  Brazil C

Question 4

Social representations are

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A)  the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a group of people.
B)  objective situations.
C)  object representations of real world actions.
D)  our most important and most unexamined convictions.

Question 5

Increasing the size of a group from 2 to _____is likely to produce the greatest increase in conformity.

Accepted Answer

A)  5
B)  10
C)  25
D)  100

Question 6

When Milgram moved his experiment from Yale to Bridgeport, the number of people who complied

Accepted Answer

A)  decreased from 63 percent to 25 percent.
B)  decreased from 63 percent to 13 percent.
C)  decreased from 63 percent to 48 percent.
D)  remained about the same.

Question 7

Social psychology _______________________ than personality psychology.

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A)  has more famous theorists
B)  focuses on the differences between individuals more
C)  has a shorter history
D)  focuses on the private internal functioning between individuals more

Question 8

In a study at Penn State, what percentage of students said they would ignore sexist statements?

Accepted Answer

A)  5 percent
B)  12 percent
C)  32 percent
D)  51 percent

Question 9

In Asch's study of conformity involving the length of lines, naïve participants conformed ___ of the time

Accepted Answer

A)  20 percent
B)  47 percent
C)  37 percent
D)  61 percent

Question 10

According to the text, the most famous and controversial experiments of social psychology are

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A)  Asch's conformity experiments.
B)  Milgram's obedience experiments.
C)  Smith and Dunn's reactance experiments.
D)  Berg's compliance experiments.

Question 11

The training of tortures by the military junta in Greece illustrates

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A)  the compliance effect.
B)  cohesiveness effect.
C)  the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.
D)  reactance phenomenon.

Question 12

Conformity that involves publicly acting in accord with social pressure while privately disagreeing is

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A)  compliance.
B)  acceptance.
C)  obedience.
D)  reactance.

Question 13

The text states that social psychology

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A)  is the most important perspective in viewing and understanding ourselves.
B)  is one important perspective from which we can view and understand ourselves.
C)  is the real explanation that lets us understand and view ourselves.
D)  is an inclusive perspective from which we can view and understand ourselves.

Question 14

Milly comes from a Black family, has two brothers, and was born in New York. One parent is a teacher and the other is a postman. If you asked Milly to tell us about herself, she would most likely say she

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A)  has two brothers.
B)  comes from a Black family.
C)  born in New York.
D)  one parent is a teacher.

Question 15

Hindsight bias

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A)  is conducive to an underestimation of our own intellectual powers.
B)  shows that common sense is nearly always scientifically wrong.
C)  is the tendency to exaggerate after learning an outcome.
D)  is the tendency to see the objective situation incorrectly.

Question 16

An accomplice of the experimenter is

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A)  confederate.
B)  partner.
C)  colleague.
D)  associate.

Question 17

According to the text, people will nearly always voice their convictions if

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A)  if two other people have done so.
B)  if one other person has done so.
C)  if more than two people have done so.
D)  none of the above.

Exam 1: Conformity and Social Psychology