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1.Easy

Explaining a classmate's failed exam by saying "she is lazy" is an example of:

  1. AA conformity response
  2. BA self-serving attribution
  3. CA dispositional (internal) attribution
  4. DA situational (external) attribution
2.Easy

A self-fulfilling prophecy occurs when:

  1. APeople remember only predictions that came true
  2. BPeople change attitudes to match behaviour
  3. CA group makes a riskier decision than its members would alone
  4. DAn expectation causes behaviour that makes it true
3.Easy

The matching hypothesis predicts that people tend to form relationships with partners who:

  1. AAre much more attractive than them
  2. BHave opposite personalities
  3. CAre similar to them in attractiveness
  4. DLive far away from them
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. AThe comedian
  2. BSam's mood that night
  3. CSam's personality
  4. DChance circumstances
5.Medium

The self-serving bias is the tendency to:

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

Someone realises "I always order salad, so I must like healthy food". Which theory describes inferring attitudes from one's own behaviour?

  1. ARealistic conflict theory
  2. BSocial identity theory
  3. CSelf-perception theory
  4. DSocial comparison theory
7.Hard

Which variation in Asch's study reduced conformity most dramatically?

  1. AHaving participants answer first
  2. BOne other confederate giving the correct answer
  3. CIncreasing the majority from 3 to 15 people
  4. DMaking the task easier
8.Hard

Baumrind criticised Milgram's obedience study mainly because:

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

Answer key

  1. 1. C · A dispositional (internal) attribution
  2. 2. D · An expectation causes behaviour that makes it true
  3. 3. C · Are similar to them in attractiveness
  4. 4. A · The comedian
  5. 5. B · Attribute successes to ourselves and failures to external factors
  6. 6. C · Self-perception theory
  7. 7. B · One other confederate giving the correct answer
  8. 8. C · Participants were deceived and put under severe stress

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