Social psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

The bystander effect means that:

  1. AGroups make riskier decisions
  2. BPeople always help when they see an emergency
  3. CPeople are less likely to help when others are present
  4. DBystanders are usually the main cause of the accidents they witness
2.Easy

Seeing members of other groups as "all alike" while seeing your own group as varied is the:

  1. AFalse consensus effect
  2. BJust-world effect
  3. CIn-group favouritism effect
  4. DOut-group homogeneity effect
3.Easy

The matching hypothesis predicts that people tend to form relationships with partners who:

  1. AHave opposite personalities
  2. BAre much more attractive than them
  3. CAre similar to them in attractiveness
  4. DLive far away from them
4.Medium

Adorno and colleagues linked prejudice to an "authoritarian personality". This personality was thought to develop from:

  1. ACompetition for jobs and housing in adulthood
  2. BA strict, harsh upbringing with conditional love
  3. CA permissive upbringing with very few rules or limits
  4. DMembership of trivial or minimal groups
5.Medium

The self-serving bias is the tendency to:

  1. AUnderestimate our own abilities
  2. BAttribute others' failures to bad luck
  3. CAttribute successes to ourselves and failures to external factors
  4. DRecall only negative information about ourselves, especially after failure
6.Medium

In a variation of Asch's study, participants wrote their answers privately instead of saying them aloud, and conformity dropped sharply. What does this suggest?

  1. AMost participants had poor eyesight for lines
  2. BWriting answers made the task more difficult
  3. CThe conformity was mainly informational
  4. DMuch of the original conformity was normative
7.Hard

In Tajfel's minimal group studies, boys allocated points between an in-group and an out-group member. They often preferred options that:

  1. AGave both boys the highest possible joint total of reward points
  2. BMaximised the gap in their group's favour, even at a cost
  3. CSplit the points exactly equally between both groups
  4. DGave more to the out-group member so as to appear fair
8.Hard

In Walster's "computer dance" study, students were randomly paired. What best predicted whether they wanted to see their date again?

  1. ASimilarity in personality test scores
  2. BSimilarity in attractiveness, as the matching hypothesis predicts
  3. CThe date's physical attractiveness, regardless of their own
  4. DSimilarity in intelligence

Answer key

  1. 1. C · People are less likely to help when others are present
  2. 2. D · Out-group homogeneity effect
  3. 3. C · Are similar to them in attractiveness
  4. 4. B · A strict, harsh upbringing with conditional love
  5. 5. C · Attribute successes to ourselves and failures to external factors
  6. 6. D · Much of the original conformity was normative
  7. 7. B · Maximised the gap in their group's favour, even at a cost
  8. 8. C · The date's physical attractiveness, regardless of their own

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