Download 2017 HRQ 14 3 Due April 10

2017 HRQ 14-3 Due April 10
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. The NASA executive who made the final decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger was
shielded from information and dissenting views that might have led to a delay of the tragic launch.
This best illustrates the dangers of
a. social facilitation.
b. deindividuation.
c. the mere exposure effect.
d. groupthink.
e. the bystander effect.
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2. The practice of covering your mouth when you cough best illustrates the impact of
a. genetic predispositions.
b. roles.
c. attributions.
d. personal space.
e. norms.
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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. Explicit attitudes are typically ________, whereas implicit attitudes are often ________.
a. persistent; temporary
b. negative; positive
c. conscious; unconscious
d. objective; subjective
e. ingroup biased; outgroup biased
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5. Ingroup bias best illustrates the impact of our ________ on prejudice.
a. superordinate goals
b. social identities
c. deindividuation
d. reciprocity norms
e. social traps
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6. Disparaging or belittling a despised outgroup provides people with a heightened sense of their own
a. fundamental attribution errors.
b. deindividuation.
c. superordinate goals.
d. self-worth.
e. social loafing.
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7. Twenty Wallonians were arrested for nonviolent crimes, whereas 20 Pireaneans were arrested for
violent crimes. The tendency to judge that more crimes were committed by Pireaneans than by
Wallonians best illustrates the power of
a. ingroup bias.
b. the mere exposure effect.
c. the just-world phenomenon.
d. deindividuation.
e. vivid cases.
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8. The just-world phenomenon often leads people to
a. dislike and distrust those who are wealthy.
b. believe that victims of misfortune deserve to suffer.
c. express higher levels of prejudice after suffering frustration.
d. respond with kindness to those who mistreat them.
e. work to resolve and lessen social injustices.
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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. Stress often generates a readiness to be aggressive that is associated with
a. stereotyping.
b. ingroup bias.
c. social facilitation.
d. the fight-or-flight reaction.
e. the fundamental attribution error.
____ 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.
b.
c.
d.
e.
mere exposure effect.
frustration-aggression principle.
cognitive dissonance theory.
catharsis hypothesis.
just-world phenomenon.