Chapter 12 Quiz

A  prescription for psychotropic medicine

B  written record of a person’s history

C  set of instructions to be carried out

D  person’s knowledge about the sequence of events in a specific setting

A  sense

B  attitude

C  feeling

D  cognition

A  emotions and attitudes, the self, and social cognition

B  society and social interaction, families, ecology, and religion

C  prejudice and discrimination, helping behavior, aggression, and group processes

D  ethnographies, case studies, archives, and statistics

A  Milgram never published his finding, making his reported results questionable.

B  Milgram was too truthful with his subjects, making his study invalid.

C  Milgram falsified his results, making his study unreliable.

D  Milgram lied to his respondents, making his study borderline unethical.

A  fundamental bias

B  interpersonal bias

C  self-serving bias

D  egocentric bias

A  students cannot be relied upon to act appropriately

B  students cannot be trusted in roles of authority

C  Zimbardo was an unethical researcher

D  social roles are powerful determinants of human behavior

A  getting your parents to agree to cut their smoking down by a few cigarettes, then asking them to quit altogether

B  supporting your sister who has decided to go cold turkey in order to quit smoking

C  anti-smoking advertisements that rely on celebrity spokespeople advocating for reduction in cigarette use

D  anti-smoking advertisements that use charts and graphs to show how many people die from smoking-related causes each year

A  Leonard gets good grades in sociology and psychology, so he sends his professors a card thanking them for what good professors they are.

B  Leonard gets bad grades in sociology and psychology, so he switches his major to biology because he will like it more.

C  Leonard attributes earning a good grade in his psychology class to the fact that he is an exceptionally hard working student who is also incredibly smart. He blames the poor grade he received in his sociology class on having a bad teacher who gave hard exams.

D  Leonard gets a bad grade in his psychology class and a good grade in his sociology class, so he believes he should study harder to prepare for his next psychology exam.

A  Different aspects of love are hierarchical. For example, companionate love is much better and longer lasting than consummate love.

B  Healthy relationships will have all three components of love: intimacy, passion, and commitment.

C  Different aspects of love might be more prevalent at different life stages.

D  Seven types of love can be described from the three components of love.

A  Asch ignored the importance of a major factor influencing conformity—the size of the group.

B  Asch ignored the importance of several factors influencing conformity—including race, class, and gender.

C  Asch ignored the importance of a major factor influencing conformity—whether the response was public or private.

D  Asch ignored the importance of a major factor influencing conformity—the presence of another dissenter.