Psychology and Social Behavior Quiz

Which of the following suggestions is most likely to reduce the hostility felt between antagonistic groups?

• Force the groups to spend a lot of time together.

• Encourage the groups to avoid each other as much as possible.

• Give the groups a task that cannot be solved unless they work together.

• Punish the groups whenever they treat each other badly.

On Monday, Tanya asked her teacher to postpone Tuesday’s test until Friday. After her teacher flatly refused, Tanya asked the teacher to push the test back one day, to Wednesday. Tanya is using the compliance strategy known as

• Foot-in-the-door.

• Norms of reciprocity.

• Compromise.

• Door-in-the-face.

In the Milgram studies, the dependent measure was the

• Highest level of shock supposedly administered.

• Location of the learner.

• Length of the line.

• Number of people in the group.

Your new neighbor seems to know everything about ancient Greece that your social studies teacher says during the first week of school. You conclude that she is brilliant. You do not consider that she might already have learned about ancient Greece in her old school. You are evidencing

• The self-fulfilling prophecy effect.

• Pluralistic ignorance.

• Confirmation bias.

• The fundamental attribution error.

Janine has always hated the color orange. However, once she became a student at Princeton, she began to wear a lot of orange Princeton Tiger clothing. The discomfort caused by her long-standing dislike of the color orange and her current ownership of so much orange-and-black striped clothing is known as

• Cognitive dissonance.

• Social loafing.

• Deindividuation.

• Opposing cognitions.

When Pasquale had his first oboe solo in the orchestra concert, his performance was far worse than it was when he rehearsed at home. A phenomenon that helps explain Pasquale’s poor performance is known as

• Social loafing.

• Groupthink.

• Deindividuation.

• Social facilitation.

After your school’s football team has a big win, students in the halls can be heard saying “We are awesome.” The next week, after the team loses to the last-place team in the league, the same students lament that “They were terrible.” The difference in these comments illustrates

• The confirmation bias.

• The self-serving bias.

• The self-fulfilling prophecy effect.

• The false consensus effect.

Which of the following is the best example of prejudice?

• Billy will not let girls play on his hockey team.

• Santiago dislikes cheerleaders.

• Mr. Tamp calls on boys more often than girls.

• Ginny thinks all Asians are smart.