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This course explores the fundamental principles and theories underlying human social

behavior, examining how individuals think, feel, and act within a social context. Topics

include social perception, attitudes, group dynamics, social influence, conformity,

aggression, altruism, and interpersonal relationships. Through a blend of empirical

research, real-world examples, and interactive discussions, students will gain insights

into the psychological processes that shape social interactions and develop a deeper

understanding of how societal norms and environments influence behavior.

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Social Psychology 6th Canadian Edition by Aronson

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 Chapter 1: Introduction to Social Psychology
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Q1) Recall that Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968)told teachers that some of their students
were "bloomers." Consequently,those students actually performed better than students
who were not labeled as [Link] finding suggests that
A) teachers' expectations were powerful in influencing the bloomers' behaviours.
B) the bloomers really were better students than their peers.
C) the bloomers were selected by intelligence.
D) the teachers were motivated to prove that the researchers were right.
E) the teachers were motivated to reward bloomers and punish the others.
Answer: A

Q2) The task of the psychologist is to

A) explore the unconscious.
B) understand and predict behaviour.
C) explain physiological functioning.
D) understand the impact of economic factors.
E) predict future events.
Answer: B

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 Chapter 2: Methodology
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Q1) Compare the goals of researchers who use the observational method,the
correlational method,and the experimental [Link] an example of a question
that is best addressed by each method.
Answer: The observational method is used to describe a phenomenon,and is often used
to test hunches informally or more formally via systematic observation or archival
[Link] correlational method is designed to determine the relation between two
phenomena (variables)and is useful in making predictions; observations and surveys
are often used in this kind of [Link] experimental method is used to determine
whether two related phenomena are causally related,and enables researchers not only
to make predictions,but also to understand why two variables might be related.(Note:
Students generate their own examples.)

Q2) Surveys are instruments most often used by social psychologists who conduct
________ research.
A) experimental
B) correlational
C) descriptive
D) observational
E) archival
Answer: B

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 Chapter 3: Social Cognition
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Q1) Korsakov's syndrome is a neurological disorder more closely associated with
abnormal psychology than with social [Link] would the authors of your text
describe the symptoms of Korsakov's syndrome and provide Oliver Sacks's description of
his encounter with a patient suffering from that disease? This discussion illustrates
A) the dangers of relying on heuristics to understand medical problems.
B) the importance of schemas in helping humans make sense of their experiences.
C) the power of schemas to create reality.
D) how unreliable our schemas can be.
E) the hazards of holding rigid, inflexible schemas.
Answer: B

Q2) Which specific mental shortcut does the text suggest causes the Barnum effect?
A) the judgmental heuristic
B) the availability heuristic
C) the base rate information
D) the representativeness heuristic
E) the cocktail party phenomenon
Answer: D

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 Chapter 4: Social Perception
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Q1) Althea doesn't talk much on her first date with [Link] assumes that is because
she's [Link] isn't [Link] is quiet because she has recently had a root canal and it
still hurts to move her [Link] example best illustrates that differential _______ can
be a source of actor/observer differences in attributions.
A) perceptual salience
B) availability of information
C) expectation
D) distinctiveness
E) priming

Q2) How have researchers collected evidence that there are six major human emotions
conveyed via facial expressions?

Q3) According to recent research,why does culture influence our tendency to make
self-serving attributions?
A) Cultures vary in the extent to which interdependence are valued.
B) Collectivist cultures seldom have any unusual or anti-social actions to explain.
C) Western cultures value team players more than Eastern cultures.
D) Our culture determines how we understand emotion.
E) Collectivist cultures do not have schemas for cause.

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 Chapter 5: The Self Understanding Ourselves in a Social

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Q1) According to the authors of your text,_______ explains why providing young
children with large rewards for reading (e.g.,money or prizes)might actually backfire and
convince them that they don't really like reading as much as they thought at first.
A) intrinsic motivation theory
B) self-perception processes
C) extrinsic motivation theory
D) reason generating attitude change
E) the overjustification effect

Q2) _______ posits that we learn about our own abilities and attitudes by comparing
ourselves to other people.
A) Social comparison theory
B) Self-verification theory
C) Self-perception theory
D) Esteem enhancement theory
E) The notion of the looking glass self

Q3) You are sitting at the mall,gossiping with a friend about a mutual [Link]
suddenly catch sight of yourself on a security [Link] to self-awareness
theory,what is likely to happen in this case?

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 Chapter 6: Attitudes and Attitude Change
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Q1) According to the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion,you are more likely to be
influenced by the central route when you are
A) impressed with the speaker's credentials and manner.
B) not invested in the topic at hand.
C) not interested in the topic at hand.
D) willing and able to give your full attention to the message.
E) preoccupied with other matters.

Q2) Self-perception processes are most likely to yield a behaviourally based attitude
when
A) initial behaviours are coerced.
B) initial attitudes are ambiguous.
C) there are multiple explanations for a behaviour.
D) initial attitudes are strong.
E) there is not a choice in behaviour.

Q3) Complete the following analogy: explicit attitude is to implicit attitude as

A) behaviourally based attitude is to cognitively based attitude.
B) controlled behaviour is to unconscious behaviour.
C) affect is to evaluation.
D) self-perception theory is to the IAT.
E) affectively based attitude is to behaviourally based attitude.

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 Chapter 7: Conformity
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Q1) Why has so much research in social psychology focused on conformity?
A) Social psychologists believe that conformity is a maladaptive response.
B) Social psychologists find examples of conformity to be quite unusual.
C) Social psychologists have historically advocated greater interdependence in
American society.
D) Social psychologists are dedicated to increasing conformity to reduce individualistic
biases.
E) Social psychologists want to determine when and why conformity is sometimes
foolish, sometimes adaptive.

Q2) Normative social influence often results in _______ but not _______.
A) individuation; total independence.
B) private compliance; public acceptance.
C) private acceptance; public compliance.
D) total independence; individuation.
E) public compliance; private acceptance.

Q3) Does providing individuals with information about social norms related to
behaviours we would like to change help to reduce those behaviours? Describe studies
that have tried this and the major drawback with this approach.

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 Chapter 8: Group Processes
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Q1) Families,church or synagogue congregations,student organizations,and sports
teams can be conceived of as groups because
A) they are part of our evolutionary and cultural heritage as humans.
B) they are typically composed of more than ten members.
C) they are typically composed of more than two members.
D) they are relatively stable collections of individuals who share the same goals.
E) individual members interact with one another and influence one another.

Q2) James manages a team of employees for a company that is highly organized,well
controlled,and high in employee [Link] this situation,there is a greater need for a
_______ leader than a _______ leader.
A) feminine; masculine
B) feminine; task-oriented
C) masculine; task-oriented
D) task-oriented; relationship-oriented
E) relationship-oriented; task-oriented

Q3) What is negotiation? What are integrative solutions? What factors work against
integrative solutions when opponents negotiate?

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 Chapter 9: Interpersonal Attraction
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Q1) Ramona cares deeply about Raúl,but does not feel any passion for [Link]úl,on the
other hand,has feelings of great longing accompanied by physical arousal whenever
she's [Link] this situation,Ramona is feeling _______ love for Raúl,whereas Raúl is
feeling _______ love for Ramona.
A) fatuous; companionate
B) passionate; fatuous
C) fatuous; consummate
D) consummate; companionate
E) companionate; passionate

Q2) Beauty constitutes a powerful [Link] characteristics are often associated

with beauty? How might we actually create some of those characteristics in attractive
others?

Q3) Barbara,Brittany,Laurie,and Melissa have each adopted a different strategy in their

attempts to attract [Link] else being equal,who is most likely to be unsuccessful?
A) Laurie, who attempts to present herself as being similar to Arthur
B) Britain, who attempts to improve her physical appearance
C) Melissa, who demonstrates her independence by disagreeing with Arthur
D) Barbara, who attempts to increase her physical proximity to Arthur
E) Georgia, who takes all the same classes as Arthur

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 Chapter 10: Prosocial Behaviour
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Q1) A(n)_______ group is a group which individuals identify with and of which they feel
they are members.
A) reference
B) peer
C) in
D) social
E) out

Q2) According to Dan Batson's (1991)empathy-altruism hypothesis,Jane is most likely to

help
A) Joe, who just told Jane that his mother passed away.
B) Liz, who is Jane's cousin.
C) Emily, who just helped Jane move into a new apartment.
D) Susan, who made Jane very angry yesterday but apologized today.
E) Bill, who told Jane that he "feels her pain" and understands her needs.

Q3) How do evolutionary theorists use the concepts of kin selection and the reciprocity
norm to explain human prosocial behaviour?

Q4) Some social psychologists,such as Daniel Batson (1991),believe that humans do

sometimes help for selfless [Link] to Batson,when does this happen?

Q5) Do men and women differ in their tendency to help? If so,how?

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 Chapter 11: Aggression
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Q1) Robert Baron (1976)conducted a field experiment to study drivers' responses to a car
that hesitated when a stoplight turned [Link] found that when a confederate hobbled
across the street on crutches in front of the lead car in the intersection,fewer drivers
behind the lead car honked their [Link] to Baron,why was that?
A) Drivers at the rear were distracted by the sight of a person on crutches.
B) Drivers at the rear were afraid honking their horns might frighten the person on
crutches.
C) Drivers at the rear felt empathy for the confederate, which inhibited their aggression.
D) Drivers at the rear forgot all about their own troubles.
E) Drivers at the rear were given a dispositional attribution for the lead driver's hesitation.

Q2) _______ is to aggression as _______ is to constructive solutions.

A) Reinforcement; assertiveness
B) Lack of social skills; communication training
C) Frustration; release
D) Assertiveness; compromise
E) Punishment; reinforcement

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 Chapter 12: Prejudice
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Q1) _______ is to affect as _______ is to cognition.
A) Prejudice; discrimination
B) Stereotype; prejudice
C) Discrimination; prejudice
D) Discrimination; stereotype
E) Prejudice; stereotype

Q2) Research on the extended contact hypothesis (Wright and colleagues)suggests that
A) the number of cross-group friendships a person has does not influence levels of
prejudice.
B) the more people in our ethnic group who have friendships with out-group members,
the less prejudiced we are towards that group.
C) the more people in our ethnic group who have friendships with out-group members,
the more prejudiced we are towards that group.
D) cross-group friendships only reduce prejudice if they include ethnic groups who
share similar social values.
E) cross-group friendships are more likely to reduce prejudice in women than in men.

Q3) What is stereotype threat,why does it arise,and what are the consequences?

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 Chapter 13: Social Psychology in Action 1
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Q1) Discuss how social psychology is in a unique position to contribute to the
development of programs to improve the environment.

Q2) Assume that you are part of a student group trying to persuade students to recycle
[Link] plan to go door-to-door in residence halls,and to use hypocrisy induction to
change recycling [Link] would you do this and why would your strategy work?

Q3) Nancy is listening to the radio while she [Link] the same moment she hears a
message from a "Keep Canada Beautiful" campaign,she notices a fast-food bag on the
side of the [Link] difference between what Nancy hears and sees reflects the
difference between _______ norms and _______ norms.
A) descriptive; proscriptive
B) objective; descriptive
C) descriptive; objective
D) injunctive; descriptive
E) descriptive; injunctive

Q4) Your text discusses the value of cooperation and working together to solve the social
dilemma of environmental [Link],there are ways to also use competition to
improve the environment.?Describe how competition can be used to promote
behaviours that would improve the environment.

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 Chapter 14: Social Psychology in Action 2
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Q1) Unlike perceived control,self-efficacy
A) is strongly related to positive health outcomes.
B) represents confidence in one's ability to perform specific behaviours to achieve a
desired outcome.
C) can reduce feelings of learned helplessness.
D) does not have any impact on behaviour.
E) is more difficult to change.

Q2) Alex Rothman and his colleagues (1993; Rothman & Salovey,1997)studied how
message framing influences people's health-related [Link] you wanted to use
results of their experiment to encourage women to have mammograms to detect breast
cancer,which of the following messages would you use?
A) The healthy choice is to see your doctor regularly.
B) You can live with breast cancer, but you have to catch it first.
C) Undetected breast cancer kills over two million women each year.
D) An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
E) If you catch it early, you can survive breast cancer.

Q3) Describe what kinds of attributions are associated with the development of learned
[Link] an example to illustrate these attributions.

Q4) Discuss the importance of message framing in public health announcements.

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 Chapter 15: Social Psychology in Action 3
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Q1) Based on the research by Loftus (1974,1983),what type of 'proof' is most likely to lead
to a guilty verdict?
A) eyewitness testimony
B) statistical evidence
C) physical evidence
D) expert testimony
E) retrieved memories

Q2) The courts and psychologists have a difference of opinion on

A) the ability of minorities on juries to sway the majority.
B) the value of statistical evidence in legal trials.
C) the weight that should be given to DNA evidence.
D) the value of testimony provided by psychologists in legal trials.
E) the importance of public awareness of the penalties of crime.

Q3) Social psychological research has revealed a _______ relation between

eyewitness confidence and accuracy.
A) weak positive
B) strong negative
C) nonexistent
D) weak negative
E) strong positive

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