Social psychology worksheet with answers

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

Helping another person without expecting anything in return is called:

1. ASocial exchange
2. BCompliance
3. CReciprocity
4. DAltruism

Unwritten rules about how people in a group are expected to behave are called:

1. AAttributions
2. BSocial norms
3. CAttitudes
4. DStereotypes

LaPiere travelled across the USA with a Chinese couple in the 1930s. Almost every hotel and restaurant served them, but most later replied by letter that they would not serve Chinese guests. This shows:

1. AThat written replies are more honest than actions
2. BThat prejudice against Chinese people did not exist
3. CThat general attitudes always predict behaviour
4. DA gap between stated attitudes and behaviour

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

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

In Hofling's hospital study, a "doctor" phoned nurses and told them to give a dose of an unfamiliar drug that exceeded the label's maximum. Almost all the nurses started to comply. This shows:

1. AConformity to a group of peers
2. BObedience to authority in a real-world setting
3. CSocial loafing among hospital staff
4. DInformational influence from the drug label

Myers and Bishop found that students high in prejudice became more prejudiced after discussing racial issues with similar students, and low-prejudice students became less prejudiced. Which two explanations are usually given?

1. APersuasive arguments and social comparison
2. BMatching hypothesis and proximity
3. CSocial loafing and social facilitation
4. DObedience and agentic state

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. BHow much of a hurry the students were in
3. CWhether they had studied psychology
4. DHow religious they said they were