Social Psychology Quiz 1

 Social psychologists would tend to look for explanations of a young man’s violent behavior primarily in terms of:

• 1. His aggressive personality traits

• 1. Possible genetics contributions

• 1. How his peer group behaves

• 1. What his father taught him.

Social psychology appears to have the largest overlap with which one of the following disciplines?

• 1. Personality Psychology

• 1. Sociology

• 1. Clinical Psychology

• 1. Biology and Neuroscience

Choose THREE (3) roles of a social psychologist

• Awareness

• Consult

• Training

• Research

The figure shows an experiment by Norman Triplett in 1898 when he noticed that cyclists’ performance was facilitated when training as a group. When does social Facilitation occur?

• 1. The tendency for people to do less in a group setting

• 1. When the presence of other people watching hinders a person's performance

• 1. To the tendency to keep personal opinions to themselves for fear of upsetting the group

• 1. When the presence of other people watching improves a person's performance

Define the factors that influence our thoughts, feelings and behaviors

• Cultural

• Surrounding social group

• Childhood experience

• Family background