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1.Easy

The frustration–aggression hypothesis states that:

  1. AAggression is learned only by watching other people
  2. BFrustration leads to withdrawal rather than aggression
  3. CBeing blocked from a goal makes aggression more likely
  4. DActing aggressively always removes the frustration
2.Easy

Cognitive dissonance is:

  1. AA disorder of perception
  2. BDiscomfort from holding conflicting beliefs or behaviours
  3. CForgetting information that conflicts with existing memories
  4. DAgreeing with a group
3.Easy

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

  1. AAttraction, proximity and similarity
  2. BTrust, respect and loyalty
  3. CIntimacy, passion and commitment
  4. DAffect, behaviour and cognition
4.Medium

Everyone laughs at a comedian, Sam laughs at this comedian but at no others, and Sam always laughs at her. Using Kelley's covariation model, the cause is most likely:

  1. AChance circumstances
  2. BThe comedian
  3. CSam's mood that night
  4. DSam's personality
5.Medium

According to the elaboration likelihood model, which route of persuasion produces longer-lasting attitude change?

  1. ABoth produce exactly the same change
  2. BThe peripheral route, based on cues such as the source's attractiveness
  3. CNeither produces any attitude change
  4. DThe central route, based on careful thinking about the arguments
6.Medium

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

  1. AMembership of trivial or minimal groups
  2. BCompetition for jobs and housing in adulthood
  3. CA strict, harsh upbringing with conditional love
  4. DA permissive upbringing with very few rules or limits
7.Hard

Baumrind criticised Milgram's obedience study mainly because:

  1. AParticipants were deceived and put under severe stress
  2. BThe shocks were real and physically harmed the learner
  3. CParticipants were paid so much that they felt obliged
  4. DThe sample was too small to generalise from at all
8.Hard

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. AWhether they were preparing a talk on the Good Samaritan
  2. BWhether they had studied psychology
  3. CHow religious they said they were
  4. DHow much of a hurry the students were in

Answer key

  1. 1. C · Being blocked from a goal makes aggression more likely
  2. 2. B · Discomfort from holding conflicting beliefs or behaviours
  3. 3. C · Intimacy, passion and commitment
  4. 4. B · The comedian
  5. 5. D · The central route, based on careful thinking about the arguments
  6. 6. C · A strict, harsh upbringing with conditional love
  7. 7. A · Participants were deceived and put under severe stress
  8. 8. D · How much of a hurry the students were in

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