Social psychology worksheet with answers

A student goes out partying the night before an exam so that a poor grade can be blamed on tiredness. This is:

1. ASocial loafing
2. BSelf-fulfilling prophecy
3. CStereotype threat
4. DSelf-handicapping

Attitudes are typically described as having which three components?

1. AAffective, behavioural and cognitive
2. BSensory, short-term and long-term
3. CConscious, preconscious and unconscious
4. DId, ego and superego

Who proposed social comparison theory, which says people evaluate themselves by comparing with others?

1. ALeon Festinger
2. BSolomon Asch
3. CHenri Tajfel
4. DStanley Milgram

The self-serving bias is the tendency to:

1. AUnderestimate our own abilities
2. BRecall only negative information about ourselves, especially after failure
3. CAttribute others' failures to bad luck
4. DAttribute successes to ourselves and failures to external factors

In Sherif's autokinetic studies, people judged how far a still dot of light seemed to move. In groups, their estimates converged on a shared norm. This mainly shows:

1. AInformational influence in an ambiguous situation
2. BSocial loafing as the group task went on
3. CObedience to the experimenter as an authority
4. DNormative influence when the correct answer was obvious

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

1. ANumber of the sources
2. BAge of the target
3. CIntelligence of the target
4. DGender of the sources

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

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

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. CObedience and agentic state
4. DSocial loafing and social facilitation