Social psychology worksheet with answers

In student housing, people were most likely to become friends with those living closest to them. This shows the role of:

1. APhysical attractiveness
2. BProximity in attraction
3. CReciprocity of liking
4. DSimilarity in attraction

Asch's line study investigated:

1. AConformity to a group's incorrect judgement
2. BVisual illusions
3. CMemory for line lengths over time
4. DObedience to authority

A person's overall evaluation of their own worth is called:

1. ASelf-concept
2. BSelf-awareness
3. CSelf-efficacy
4. DSelf-esteem

A smoker who knows smoking is harmful tells himself "the research isn't really conclusive". In dissonance terms, he is reducing dissonance by:

1. AConforming to a group norm
2. BIncreasing the importance of the conflict
3. CChanging his behaviour
4. DChanging one of the conflicting cognitions

The foot-in-the-door technique works by:

1. AMaking a large request first, which is refused, then a smaller one
2. BOffering a discount after the request
3. CUsing fear to persuade
4. DGetting agreement to a small request before making a larger one

Aronson and Mills found that women who went through an embarrassing initiation to join a dull discussion group rated it more positively than those with a mild initiation. This is:

1. AEffort justification
2. BThe mere exposure effect
3. CThe halo effect
4. DSocial facilitation

Kunst-Wilson and Zajonc showed octagons too briefly to be recognised. Later, participants could not tell old from new shapes but preferred the ones shown before. This suggests:

1. AVery brief exposure tends to reduce liking for a shape
2. BPeople always know which shapes they have seen before
3. CLiking depends only on what can be consciously remembered from before
4. DMere exposure can raise liking without conscious recognition

Darley and Batson's "Good Samaritan" study with seminary students found that the strongest predictor of stopping to help a man in a doorway was:

1. AHow religious they said they were
2. BHow much of a hurry the students were in
3. CWhether they were preparing a talk on the Good Samaritan
4. DWhether they had studied psychology