Social psychology worksheet with answers

Seeing members of other groups as "all alike" while seeing your own group as varied is the:

1. AFalse consensus effect
2. BIn-group favouritism effect
3. COut-group homogeneity effect
4. DJust-world effect

Milgram used the term "agentic state" to describe a person who:

1. AActs entirely on their own conscience and their own moral values
2. BRefuses to follow orders that they think are wrong
3. CSees themselves as acting for an authority, not for themselves
4. DFeels fully responsible for the harm they are causing

The bystander effect means that:

1. APeople always help when they see an emergency
2. BPeople are less likely to help when others are present
3. CBystanders are usually the main cause of the accidents they witness
4. DGroups make riskier decisions

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 empathy–altruism hypothesis
4. DThe arousal: cost–reward model

According to Latané's social impact theory, social influence increases with the strength, immediacy and:

1. AGender of the sources
2. BNumber of the sources
3. CAge of the target
4. DIntelligence of the target

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

In Reicher and Haslam's BBC prison study, guards did not form a strong shared identity, while prisoners did and challenged the guards. What does this suggest about the Stanford prison experiment?

1. APrisoners always accept their low status without resistance
2. BAssigned roles and group membership have no effect on behaviour at all
3. CGuards will always become cruel when they are given power
4. DBehaviour depends on shared identity, not automatic role-taking

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