Download 2017 HRQ 14 1

2017 HRQ 14-1
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____
1. A tendency to overestimate the extent to which a stranger's violent behavior stems from his or her
aggressive personality best illustrates
a. the frustration-aggression principle.
b. the mere exposure effect.
c. the fundamental attribution error.
d. deindividuation.
e. cognitive dissonance.
____
2. People are especially likely to demonstrate the fundamental attribution error in cultures that value
a. individualism.
b. sexual stereotyping.
c. the reciprocity norm.
d. superordinate goals.
e. collectivism.
____
3. In explaining our own behavior or the behavior of those we know well, we often resort to
a. deindividuation.
b. social facilitation.
c. social loafing.
d. situational attributions.
e. self-disclosure theory.
____
4. A life insurance salesperson who takes advantage of the foot-in-the-door phenomenon would be
most likely to
a. emphasize that his company is one of the largest in the insurance industry.
b. promise a free gift to those who agree to purchase an insurance policy.
c. ask customers to respond to a brief survey of their attitudes regarding life
insurance.
d. address customers by their first names.
e. meet potential customers by paying them an unexpected visit at their homes.
____
5. The discomfort we feel when two thoughts are inconsistent is called
a. cognitive dissonance.
b. implicit prejudice.
c. deindividuation.
d. social loafing.
e. the fundamental attribution error.
____
6. Unconsciously mimicking those around us is known as
a. group polarization.
b. the chameleon effect.
c. social facilitation.
d. social loafing.
e. mirror-image perceptions.
____
7. Toby publicly agrees with his friends that Ahmed, a senior, would make the best Student Senate
President. On the secret ballot, however, he actually votes for Yoram. Toby's public conformity to
his friends' opinion best illustrates the power of
a. social facilitation.
b. informational social influence.
c. deindividuation.
d. normative social influence.
e. the mere exposure effect.
____
8. The value of social conformity is most likely to be emphasized in
a. England.
b. France.
c. Japan.
d. the United States.
e. Canada.
____
9. In 1942, German reserve police officers obeyed orders to kill some 1500 Jews in the village of
Jozefow, Poland. This incident illustrated that people are most likely to be destructively obedient
when
a. they fail to realize their actions are morally wrong.
b. their victims are distant and depersonalized.
c. they perceive their orders to come from legitimate authority figures.
d. they derive personal satisfaction from destructive acts.
e. the foot-in-the-door phenomenon is effective.
____ 10. After a light turns green, drivers take about 15 percent less time to travel the first 100 yards when
another car is beside them at the intersection than when they are alone. This best illustrates
a. the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.
b. the mere exposure effect.
c. the bystander effect.
d. social facilitation.
e. a situational attribution.
____ 11. Social loafing is MOST likely to occur among
a. audience members who are asked to applaud after a speaker is introduced.
b. factory workers paid on the basis of individual level of productivity.
c. a group of runners competing for first place in a race.
d. students who are each assigned a different topic for their course term papers.
e. children at a party all trying to break a piñata in order to get candy.
____ 12. Social loafing has been found to be especially noticeable among
a. women in cultures that value collectivism.
b. women in cultures that value individualism.
c. men in cultures that value collectivism.
d. men in cultures that value individualism.
e. both men and women in cultures that value collectivism.
____ 13. Professors Maksoud, Struthers, and Vasic each tend to think that obtaining a university degree is
easier today than it was when they were students. After discussing the matter over coffee, they are
even more convinced that obtaining a degree is easier today. This episode provides an example of
a. the fundamental attribution error.
b. social facilitation.
c. group polarization.
d. deindividuation.
e. the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.