Download 2017 HRQ 14 4 Due April 10

2017 HRQ 14-4 Due April 10
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Groups of citizens who identified themselves as politically liberal and groups of citizens who
identified themselves as conservative were asked to discuss socially relevant issues such as
affirmative action and same-sex unions. After group discussion, the liberal groups expressed
increasingly ________ positions and the conservative groups expressed increasingly ________
positions.
a. liberal; liberal
b. moderate; moderate
c. conservative; liberal
d. liberal; conservative
e. conservative; conservative
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2. In which of the following countries do people generally prefer to maintain the largest personal
space?
a. France
b. England
c. Mexico
d. Saudi Arabia
e. Japan
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3. Prejudice is best defined as
a. an unjustifiable attitude toward a group and its members.
b. a fearful suspicion of people one has never met.
c. the tendency to favor members of one's own group.
d. a perceived incompatibility of actions or goals.
e. the belief that victims of misfortune deserve their fate.
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4. At a conscious level, Aaron doesn't think he's prejudiced. Yet he automatically feels uncomfortable
in situations where he has to interact with people of different races from his own. Aaron's experience
best illustrates the distinction between
a. equity and self-disclosure.
b. situational and dispositional attributions.
c. explicit and implicit attitudes.
d. normative and informational social influence.
e. social facilitation and social loafing.
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5. Six-year-old Ezra believes that boys are better than girls, while 5-year-old Arlette believes that girls
are better than boys. Their beliefs most clearly illustrate
a. the reciprocity norm.
b. deindividuation.
c. ingroup bias.
d. the mere exposure effect.
e. the fundamental attribution error.
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6. A vivid example of a North Korean's behavior has an unusually strong influence on people's
judgments of all North Koreans primarily because people
a. are motivated to confirm their current stereotypes of specific groups.
b. typically categorize other individuals on the basis of barely noticeable
characteristics.
c. estimate the frequency of group characteristics in terms of the memorability of
these characteristics.
d. strongly resent those who draw a lot of attention to themselves.
e. are prone to committing the fundamental attribution error.
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7. Mr. Ignatenko thinks that most unemployed people are to blame for their own misfortune. His belief
best illustrates a potential consequence of
a. ingroup bias.
b. deindividuation.
c. the social responsibility norm.
d. the mere exposure effect.
e. the just-world phenomenon.
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8. Verbal behavior intended to hurt another person is an example of
a. a dispositional attribution.
b. prejudice.
c. deindividuation.
d. aggression.
e. the mere exposure effect.
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9. An explanation of aggression in terms of instinct would have the most difficulty accounting for
a. unexpected and unprovoked outbursts of aggression.
b. wide cultural variations in aggressiveness.
c. aggression that is accompanied by anger and hostility.
d. the use of nuclear weapons to kill millions of unseen victims.
e. violent behaviors passed down from parents to children.
____ 10. Organisms often respond to ________ with a fight-or-flight reaction.
a. social facilitation
b. the mere exposure effect
c. superordinate goals
d. stress
e. discrimination
____ 11. After a month of watching violent pornographic movies on late-night cable TV, Myron will probably
be
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
less likely to believe that women enjoy aggressive sexual treatment.
more likely to believe that rape is a serious crime.
more likely to interpret a woman's friendliness as sexual interest.
less likely to believe that rape occurs quite frequently in society.
less likely to be interesting in nonviolent pornography.
____ 12. People heavily exposed to violent pornography are likely to engage in sexually aggressive behaviors
that reflect a misleading
a. hindsight bias.
b. social script.
c. bystander effect.
d. two-factor theory.
e. social-responsibility norm.
____ 13. Research on the effects of playing violent video games most clearly provides evidence that
disconfirms the
a. mere exposure effect.
b. frustration-aggression principle.
c. cognitive dissonance theory.
d. catharsis hypothesis.
e. just-world phenomenon.