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Roberta is trying to decide whether to vote for a political candidate. Based on what she has read about him, she has concluded that he is not qualified for the position, but she agrees with his political positions. Also, she trusts him and likes his decisive personality. In fact, she likes him so much that she sent a small donation to his campaign. Her opinion that the candidate is not qualified represents the ________ component of her attitude toward him.


A) cognitive
B) feeling
C) intuition
D) behavioral

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If a person sees a victim in dire need, but doesn't know how to help, that person will most likely:


A) stay with the victim.
B) do nothing.
C) go for help.
D) attempt to offer first aid.

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The ________ technique may work because, compared to the large first request, the second request seems reasonable.


A) foot-in-the-door
B) face-in-the-door
C) door-in-the-face
D) guilt by association

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The term ________ refers to the tendency to help others who are in need even when there is not likely to be a reward for helping.


A) bystander mitigation
B) altruism
C) empathy
D) sympathetic collusion

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Conformity tends to be higher when a task is ________.


A) easy
B) ambiguous
C) clearly defined
D) illegal

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Inferring characteristics of people based on their observable behavior is called ________.


A) social psychology
B) attribution
C) attitudes
D) personality psychology

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What term do social psychologists use for the process of making people in an out-group responsible for the problems of people in the in-group?


A) groupthink
B) pariah formation
C) deindividuation
D) scapegoating

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Stanley Milgram's study of obedience took on a special importance in the wake of ________.


A) the September 11, 2001 attacks
B) President Clinton's impeachment
C) President Kennedy's assassination
D) the atrocities committed by soldiers in Nazi Germany

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One technique that a person may use to reduce cognitive dissonance is changing their conflicting behaviors to match their attitudes.

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Erin hates snakes, even though she has never been bitten or been close to one. She developed her feelings by seeing how scared her mother was when she came across them in the garden or even when watching a movie or television show in which there was a snake. Erin's attitude toward snakes was most likely acquired through


A) vicarious conditioning.
B) direct instruction.
C) interaction with others.
D) direct contact.

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Which of the following is NOT one of the three major components of attitudes?


A) thoughts
B) feelings
C) goals
D) behaviors

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A teacher decides against assigning group projects in which all group members get the same grade. What social psychological phenomenon might the teacher be concerned about?


A) conformity
B) social loafing
C) social influence
D) social facilitation

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The social group viewed as the one with which a person identifies is called a(n) ________.


A) pariah
B) in-group
C) threat-group
D) out-group

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Cirillo divided her first-period class into two groups. One group had to read 20 pages in a boring psychology text, but would get 2 extra points on the next test. The other group also read 20 pages but were given 25 points added to the next test. The class members were then asked to tell the second-period class how interesting the book was. According to the results of the Festinger and Carlsmith study, what predictions could one make about the remarks of the first-period class?


A) Both groups would say the pages were boring.
B) The first-period class would say the pages were boring, but the second-period class would not.
C) Both groups would say the pages were interesting.
D) The first-period class would say the pages were interesting, but the second-period class would say the pages were boring.

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The realistic conflict theory focuses on conflict ________.


A) within an in-group
B) between two groups
C) within an out-group
D) between two members of an in-group

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Kwan really doesn't feel like riding the stationary bicycle today, but he doesn't want the people around him to think he is a slacker. If he decides to continue exercising, what concept might explain his actions?


A) social loafing
B) social idleness
C) social facilitation
D) social productivity

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Social comparison theory is associated with which reason for joining groups?


A) self-identification
B) information and evaluation
C) social support
D) achieving a goal

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Who was the psychologist who originally developed attribution theory?


A) John Cacioppo
B) James Carlsmith
C) Leon Festinger
D) Fritz Heider

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The term psychologists use for how physically close two people are to each other is ________.


A) similarity
B) proximity
C) propinquity
D) complementarity

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Which of the following brain structures has been identified as being particularly important in one's acting in a prosocial manner?


A) the temporoparietal junction
B) the acromioclavicular joint
C) the frontopatellar chiasm
D) the occipital-parietal intersection

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