Social psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

The frustration–aggression hypothesis states that:

  1. AFrustration leads to withdrawal rather than aggression
  2. BBeing blocked from a goal makes aggression more likely
  3. CActing aggressively always removes the frustration
  4. DAggression is learned only by watching other people
2.Easy

A stereotype is:

  1. AA generalised belief about members of a group
  2. BA negative behaviour towards a group
  3. CA legal rule about groups
  4. DA feeling of liking for members of one's own group only
3.Easy

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

  1. AGroupthink
  2. BSocial loafing
  3. CReactance
  4. DScapegoating
4.Medium

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

The foot-in-the-door technique works by:

  1. AUsing fear to persuade
  2. BMaking a large request first, which is refused, then a smaller one
  3. COffering a discount after the request
  4. DGetting agreement to a small request before making a larger one
6.Medium

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. AObedience to the experimenter as an authority
  2. BInformational influence in an ambiguous situation
  3. CSocial loafing as the group task went on
  4. DNormative influence when the correct answer was obvious
7.Hard

In Walster's "computer dance" study, students were randomly paired. What best predicted whether they wanted to see their date again?

  1. ASimilarity in intelligence
  2. BSimilarity in attractiveness, as the matching hypothesis predicts
  3. CThe date's physical attractiveness, regardless of their own
  4. DSimilarity in personality test scores
8.Hard

Fischer and colleagues' meta-analysis of the bystander effect found that it was weaker when:

  1. AThe situation was more ambiguous
  2. BAll the bystanders were strangers
  3. CThe emergency was clearly dangerous
  4. DThere were more bystanders present

Answer key

  1. 1. B · Being blocked from a goal makes aggression more likely
  2. 2. A · A generalised belief about members of a group
  3. 3. D · Scapegoating
  4. 4. C · A self-fulfilling prophecy from teacher expectations
  5. 5. D · Getting agreement to a small request before making a larger one
  6. 6. B · Informational influence in an ambiguous situation
  7. 7. C · The date's physical attractiveness, regardless of their own
  8. 8. C · The emergency was clearly dangerous

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