Social psychology worksheet with answers

Social facilitation means that the presence of others:

1. AMakes people forget instructions
2. BAlways worsens performance, whatever kind of task is being done
3. CHas no effect on performance
4. DImproves performance on simple or well-learned tasks

Going along with a group in public while privately disagreeing is called:

1. AIdentification
2. BCompliance
3. CConversion
4. DInternalisation

Blaming an innocent out-group for one's own frustrations and problems is called:

1. AReactance
2. BSocial loafing
3. CGroupthink
4. DScapegoating

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. ASam's mood that night
2. BChance circumstances
3. CSam's personality
4. DThe comedian

Aronson and Mills found that women who went through an embarrassing initiation to join a dull discussion group rated it more positively than those with a mild initiation. This is:

1. AThe halo effect
2. BSocial facilitation
3. CEffort justification
4. DThe mere exposure effect

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

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

Men approached by a female researcher on a high, swaying bridge were more likely to phone her later than men approached on a low, stable bridge. This is explained by:

1. ASocial exchange theory
2. BThe matching hypothesis
3. CThe mere exposure effect
4. DMisattribution of arousal

A prejudiced person explains an out-group member's kind act as "just luck" or "he was forced to" but explains an out-group member's crime as "that's how they are". This is:

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