Social psychology worksheet with answers

Sternberg's triangular theory of love has which three components?

1. AAffect, behaviour and cognition
2. BTrust, respect and loyalty
3. CIntimacy, passion and commitment
4. DAttraction, proximity and similarity

Worrying about confirming a negative stereotype about one's group, which then harms performance, is called:

1. AScapegoating
2. BSelf-handicapping
3. CIllusory correlation
4. DStereotype threat

Which study is known for assigning students to the roles of guards and prisoners?

1. AThe Stanford prison experiment
2. BAsch's conformity study
3. CMilgram's obedience study
4. DThe Robbers Cave experiment

Only Jo laughs at a comedian, Jo laughs at every comedian, and Jo always laughs at this one. Using Kelley's model, people will most likely explain the laughter by:

1. ASomething about Jo
2. BSomething about that evening
3. CSomething about the audience
4. DSomething about the comedian

Rosenthal and Jacobson told teachers that some randomly chosen pupils were about to "bloom" intellectually. Later, these pupils showed larger IQ gains, especially in the youngest classes. This shows:

1. AThat IQ tests given in schools cannot be trusted
2. BA self-fulfilling prophecy from teacher expectations
3. CThat teachers' beliefs have no effect on pupils
4. DThat the chosen pupils were truly more gifted

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. AThe matching hypothesis
2. BSocial identity theory
3. CThe arousal: cost–reward model
4. DThe empathy–altruism hypothesis

Fischer and colleagues' meta-analysis of the bystander effect found that it was weaker when:

1. AAll the bystanders were strangers
2. BThere were more bystanders present
3. CThe emergency was clearly dangerous
4. DThe situation was more ambiguous

Jones and Harris had participants read an essay supporting Castro. Even when told the writer had been assigned the position, participants judged the writer to be pro-Castro. This demonstrates:

1. AThe actor–observer bias
2. BThe fundamental attribution error
3. CThe false consensus effect
4. DThe self-serving bias