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Understanding Social Psychology

Test your knowledge of social psychology concepts with this engaging quiz! Designed for anyone interested in how social influences shape our thoughts and behaviors, the quiz will challenge your understanding of fundamental theories and real-world applications.

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15 thought-provoking questions
Multiple-choice format
Instant feedback on your answers

15 Questions4 MinutesCreated by ExaminingMind24

1. Social Psychology is defined as

A. An influence of social processes on the way people think, feel and behave

B. An influence of social processes on the way people relate to each other

C. Account to the study of emotions and experienced knowledge

D.It foster national identity and consciousness, social involvement

2. At first Jim did not like his teacher, but after sitting in this teacher's class for a number of weeks Jimmy as started to like his teacher. This new perspective would be an example of:

A. Bystander effect

B. Mere-exposure effect

C. Diffusion of responsibility

D. In-group bias

3. What type of attribution when the behavior is due to the situation, "My teacher yelled at me because today is the deadline of our project and I am not yet done."

A. Internal Attribution

B. Fundamental Attribution Error

C. Actor-Observer Bias

D. External Attribution

4. If you have a friend who is reluctant to help you clean your entire room, you maybe successful through asking him to simply help you move one item in your room. This approach is referred to as:

A. Altruism

B. Cognitive Dissonance

C. Foot-in-the Door

D. Bystandder Effect

5. The greatest contribution of social psychology is its study of attitudes, beliefs, decisions, and actions and the way they are moulded by?

A. Social Relation

B. Social Conformity

C. Group Influence

D. Social Influence

6. _____________ set up an experiment, known as the Stanford Prison experiment, where people plaed the role of a prison guard. The goal was to observe if this authority position would cause them to act differently.

A. Stanley Milgram

B. Philip Zimbardo

C. Muzafer Sherif

D. Soloman Ache

7. Social Facilitation occurs:

A.To the tendency to keep personal opinions to themselves for fear of upsetting the group

B. When people listen more attentively to people of authority

C. When the presence of other people watching improves a persons performance

D. When the prescence of other people watching hinders a person's performance

8. This is one of the reasons for conformity where a person desires to gain approval or avoid rejection.

A. Normative Social Influence

B. Informational Social Influence

C. Normal Social Influence

D. Normative- Informational Social Influence

9. A contributor of prejudice behavior is when people blame others for their misfortunes and often respond with negative behavior and actions towards these people. This is referred to as:

A. Ethnocentrism

B. Altuism

C. Bystander Effect

S. Scapegoat theory

10. Groupthink is defined as:

A. Thinking that revolves around keeping harmony within a group through not disagreeing with group opinion

B. Improved performance when people are watching

C. When an attitude becomes stronger in group presence

D. Improved performance when people are watching

11. This is an unjustifiable attitude toward a group and its members – often towards a different cultural, ethnic or gender group

A. Stereotype

B. Prejudice

C. Aggression

D. Discrimination

12. People are likely to invest less effort in a task when they are working with others. What is this phenomenon called?

A. Social loafing

B. Deindividuation

C. Social facilitation

D. Group Polarization

13. What is group polarization?

A The strength of the liking and commitment group members have toward each other and to a group

B. The tendency for a dominant point of view in a group to be strengthened to a more extreme position after a group discussion

C. A situation in which one harms oneself and others by acting in one’s self-interest

D. The tendency of a close-knit group to emphasize consensus at the expense of critical thinking and rational decision making

14. Attraction is influenced by which of the following?

A. Whether people live or work in the same neighborhood

B. Whether liking is reciprocated

C. How similar people are to each other

D. All of the above

15. Diminished sense of personal responsibility to act because others are seen as equally responsible.

A. Bystander Effect

B. Social Loafing

C. Deindividualization

D. Group think

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