AP Psychology Quiz 15A - Social Psychology (15 Questions)

The following is a quiz with Social Psychology based questions. Take this quiz as often as you would like. You goal for this exam should be 60% or higher.

1 Steven assumes that the majority of people share his beliefs about education. This is an example of

	the false consensus effect
	the mere exposure effect
	ingroup bias
	confirmation bias
	fundamental attribution error

2 Janet is a businesswoman in a meeting with five men. The men frequently make rude comments and say that women aren’t tough enough to handle a corporate environment. One day the men were giving Janet a hard time and she began to cry, supporting their stereotype that women aren’t tough enough to be in the business world. This illustrates

	cognitive dissonance
	confirmation bias
	the fundamental attribution error
	social facilitation
	ethnocentrism

3 Greg takes a defensive driving course with a friend, which is quite boring and tedious for him. Afterwards, he and his friend are discussing the course, and his friend expresses how interesting he thought the course was.

If Greg agrees that the course was interesting and engaging, he may experience

	self serving bias
	social discordance
	fundamental attribution error
	cognitive dissonance
	scapegoating

4 Which of the following statements is an example of the just-world phenomenon?

	"All unemployed people are just lazy"
	"I had a feeling I was going to win the lottery today"
	"I didn't get a good grade in that class because the test was unfair"
	"He didn't say hello this morning; he must be a rude person"
	"She did well on that exam; she must be very smart"

5 Social exchange theory states that

	most humans are driven to perform altruistic acts
	we have a need to develop intimate relationships with others
	people will be less likely to help someone if they are in a group than if they are alone
	social behavior aims to maximize benefits and minimize costs
	stereotype threat may prevent people from donating money to charitable causes

6 Research on obedience shows that obedience is highest when

	a person is giving orders from afar
	the victim is nearby
	the authority figure is associated with a prestigious institution
	other people are not complying with orders
	the authority figure is not easily distinguished

7 Obedience studies, such as Stanley Milgram's obedience studies in the 1970s, demonstrate that

	race and ethnicity play a large role in the degree to which a person will obey orders
	women are more likely to obey orders to which they disagree with than men are
	the perception of legitimate authority will induce higher obedience
	more educated people are less willingly to obey orders to which they disagree strongly
	most people are not willing to obey orders to which they strongly object to

8 Ingroup bias is

	looking for information that confirms one’s own beliefs
	a way to blame others for one’s own transgressions
	relying on stereotypes to judge people
	the tendency to favor one’s own group
	a type of defense mechanism

9 It would be easier for a group like the Ku Klux Klan to commit violent acts while wearing their hoods than if they were not wearing their hoods. This is because of

	groupthink
	deindividuation
	reaction formation
	phi phenomenon
	learned helplessness

10 Individuals who are perceived to be different from one’s ingroup are considered

	part of an outgroup
	scapegoats
	victims of prejudice
	representatives of stereotypes
	deindividuated

11 Maria was denied a job because she is Hispanic. Maria is a victim of

	hindsight bias
	confirmation bias
	discrimination
	the foot in the door technique
	the fundamental attribution error

12 Behavior that is helpful for others but requires a self-sacrifice on the part of the individual is described as which of the following?

	Prosocial behavior
	Diffusion of responsibility
	Type A behavior pattern
	Altruism
	Reaction formation

13 The idea that people in a relationship receive the same amount that they give is called

	passionate love
	self-disclosure
	altruism
	reciprocal determinism
	equity

14 In Albert Bandura's classic "bobo doll" experiment, children who were exposed to aggressive models,

	showed the same or very similar levels of aggression as children unexposed to aggressive models
	disobeyed orders to not play with any of the toys in the experiment
	utilized instrumental aggression rather than hostile aggression
	showed similar aggressive behavior as the adult models they witnessed
	demonstrated higher levels of frustration and anxiety when in unfamiliar situations

15 According to Albert Bandura, aggression is a result of

	social learning
	reaction formation
	evolutionary mechanisms
	genetic heritability
	operant conditioning

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