Social psychology worksheet with answers

When forming an impression of someone, information we receive first often has the greatest influence. This is the:

1. APrimacy effect
2. BHalo effect
3. CSleeper effect
4. DRecency effect

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

1. AIllusory correlation
2. BSelf-handicapping
3. CStereotype threat
4. DScapegoating

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

1. AConversion
2. BCompliance
3. CIdentification
4. DInternalisation

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

1. ANeither produces any attitude change
2. BBoth produce exactly the same change
3. CThe peripheral route, based on cues such as the source's attractiveness
4. DThe central route, based on careful thinking about the arguments

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. AThe comedian
2. BSam's mood that night
3. CSam's personality
4. DChance circumstances

Social exchange theory proposes that relationships continue when:

1. ARewards outweigh costs compared with alternatives
2. BOne partner holds more power than the other one
3. CPartners live close to each other and see each other often
4. DPartners are similar in age and background

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 false consensus effect
3. CThe self-serving bias
4. DThe fundamental attribution error

Pettigrew and Tropp's meta-analysis of over 500 studies on intergroup contact found that:

1. AContact usually reduces prejudice; Allport's conditions add to it
2. BContact reduces prejudice only if all of Allport's conditions are met
3. CContact has no measurable effect once prior attitudes are controlled
4. DContact usually increases prejudice unless groups are kept apart