Unit 4 Quizs

Industrial-organizational psychology

What field applies psychology to the workplace?

• Clinical psychology

• Industrial-organizational psychology

• Cognitive psychology

• Developmental psychology

What bias seeks evidence that supports what we already believe?

• Confirmation bias

• Cognitive dissonance

• Anchoring bias

• Hindsight bias

What defense mechanism expresses the opposite of your feelings?

• Repression

• Projection

• Reaction formation

• Displacement

What explanatory style credits setbacks to temporary causes and promotes hope?

• Pessimistic explanatory style

• Optimistic explanatory style

• Realistic explanatory style

• Cynical explanatory style

What type of social influence comes from accepting others’ opinions as truth?

• Informational social influence

• Normative social influence

• Referent social influence

• Coercive social influence

What bias makes people overestimate how much others agree with them?

• Confirmation bias

• False consensus effect

• Hindsight bias

• Self-serving bias

Conformity

What is changing one’s behavior to match the group?

• A. Adapting to individual preferences

• B. Changing one’s behavior to match the group

• C. Establishing personal beliefs

• D. Ignoring social norms

Deindividuation

What loss of self-awareness occurs in group settings?

• Social facilitation

• Deindividuation

• Groupthink

• Cognitive dissonance

Ethnocentrism

What belief system sees one’s culture as superior to others?

• Cultural relativism

• Ethnocentrism

• Globalism

• Multiculturalism

Group polarization

What group tendency strengthens beliefs through discussion?

• Groupthink

• Social loafing

• Group polarization

• Cognitive dissonance