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GENERAL MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. In class, some students were given a sheet stating that physically attractive people tend to be seen as intelligent, whereas other students received sheets stating the opposite. Regardless of the sheet they received, most students thought that the information they read was unsurprising. Professor Plous used this example to illustrate:
A. Androgyny
B. Behavioral confirmation
C. Self-enhancement bias
D. Hindsight bias
2. In an experiment discussed in the textbook, people who were primed by the scent of an all-purpose cleaner later:
A. Kept their desk cleaner while eating a crumbly cookie
B. Took longer to identify cleaning-related words
C. Preferred that brand of cleaner over other brands
D. Felt an uncontrollable urge to wrestle in mud
APPLICATIONS--Analyze the following situations!
3. Julia is about to go on a first date with LaVon, whom she has emailed through a singles web site but has never met in person. If Julia fears rejection, she might exhibit self-handicapping behavior by:
A. Pretending that she has a broken arm to get sympathy
B. Arriving late so that she has an excuse if LaVon doesn't like her
C. Talking about her high salary to impress LaVon
D. Surprising LaVon with an expensive box of chocolates
4. During the U.S. presidential campaign, Democrats and Republicans both displayed what social psychologists call "group-serving bias." Which of the following tendencies is consistent with a group-serving bias?
A. Republicans making situational attributions when Barack Obama behaves positively
B. Democrats making dispositional attributions when John McCain behaves negatively
C. Both of the above
D. None of the above
TRUE-FALSE
5. As used in social psychology, "attitudes" are generally evaluative in nature (positive or negative), whereas "opinions" need not be.
6. In David Rosenhan's article On Being Sane in Insane Places, the sanity of the "pseudopatients" was never detected by other patients in the ward.
Answer Key: 1-D, 2-A, 3-B, 4-C, 5-True, 6-False
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