Social psychology worksheet with answers

Realistic conflict theory explains hostility between groups mainly as a result of:

1. AMere membership of a group
2. BPersonality traits of group members
3. CA lack of contact with others
4. DCompetition for limited resources

After discussion, a group's opinion becomes more extreme in the direction its members already leaned. This is called:

1. ASocial loafing
2. BGroupthink
3. CGroup polarisation
4. DDeindividuation

Accepting a group's view both publicly and privately because you truly believe it is called:

1. ACompliance
2. BConversion
3. CIdentification
4. DInternalisation

People overestimate how often a minority group performs rare negative behaviours, because two distinctive things seem to go together. This is:

1. AIllusory correlation
2. BOut-group homogeneity
3. CThe halo effect
4. DThe just-world belief

On a New York subway, a man who collapsed while carrying a cane was helped more often than a man who smelt of alcohol. Which model best explains this?

1. ASocial identity theory
2. BThe empathy–altruism hypothesis
3. CThe arousal: cost–reward model
4. DThe matching hypothesis

A message from a low-credibility source becomes more persuasive weeks later, as people forget where it came from. This is the:

1. AMere exposure effect
2. BSleeper effect
3. CPrimacy effect
4. DBoomerang effect

A teenager adopts the style and opinions of an admired older cousin, but drops them once the two are no longer close. Kelman would call this:

1. ACompliance
2. BIdentification
3. CObedience
4. DInternalisation

In Ross's quiz study, randomly assigned questioners wrote hard questions for contestants. Observers rated the questioners as more knowledgeable. Why is this an attribution error?

1. AThe questioners really were more intelligent overall
2. BThe observers believed the roles were assigned by skill
3. CThe questioners' role advantage was taken as ability
4. DThe contestants knew the answers but chose to hide them