Chapter 12 Quiz

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

B  set of instructions to be carried out

C  prescription for psychotropic medicine

D  written record of a person’s history

A  cognition

B  attitude

C  sense

D  feeling

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

B  emotions and attitudes, the self, and social cognition

C  ethnographies, case studies, archives, and statistics

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

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

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

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

D  Milgram falsified his results, making his study unreliable.

A  fundamental bias

B  interpersonal bias

C  egocentric bias

D  self-serving bias

A  students cannot be trusted in roles of authority

B  social roles are powerful determinants of human behavior

C  Zimbardo was an unethical researcher

D  students cannot be relied upon to act appropriately

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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—the presence of another dissenter.

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