Quiz 6

A  Discouragement of dissenting opinion

B  Allowing in outside expert opinion

C  An illusion of unanimity

D  An illusion of invulnerability

A  Underestimation of the threat of terrorism prior to the 9/11 attacks

B  The Obama administration’s decision to reform health care

C  The Johnson administration’s 1967 decision to start the War on Poverty

D  U.S. entry into World War II after the Pearl Harbor attack

A  The findings were not significant in terms of how people adapt to roles of authority.

B  Without being told to do so, students playing the role of guards behaved sadistically toward the students in the role of prisoners.

C  The students acting in the roles of prisoners and guards did not take the experiment seriously, so it was discontinued early.

D  When upper-class students were put in the role of prisoner, they were not abused as much as the working-class students in the same role.

A  women are less likely to engage in behavior that is potentially harmful for others than men are.

B  people will not conform when they believe their behavior will harm another person.

C  people conform only up to a certain point but will not violate moral or ethical standards.

D  there is a significant difference between what people believe they will do and how they actually behave.

A  the majority of people make up their minds for themselves and stick to those opinions.

B  even rather gentle pressure was sufficient to cause an astonishing rise in the number of wrong answers.

C  there is no real pressure to conform in most situations.

D  most people would not bend to the opinions of others without a great deal of anger and argument.

A  created by the existence of an in-group.

B  always a secondary group.

C  an attribute of society.

D  the opposite of an in-group.

A  In-groups; out-groups

B  Primary groups; secondary groups

C  Reference groups; attribution groups

D  Dyads; triads

A  The influence of a reference group may be positive or negative.

B  Identification with a social group can strongly influence self-esteem.

C  Reference groups always provide good role models.

D  One does not belong to a reference group.

A  Categories; secondary groups

B  Secondary groups; primary groups

C  Triads; dyads

D  Primary groups; secondary groups

A  Teachers

B  Family

C  Neighbors

D  Classmates

A  adding a third person to a dyad has no effect on the stability of the group.

B  a dyad is basically an unstable social grouping.

C  the size of the group has no effect on interaction.

D  a triad is an unstable social grouping, whereas dyads are relatively stable.

A  predisposition for primary groups to be small

B  likelihood of dyads to be stable.

C  tendency for triads to develop into a pair and an isolate.

D  emergence of coalitions.

A  John’s parents and John

B  A married couple

C  Lori’s sociology class

D  All eighteen-year-olds

A  two

B  one

C  five

D  seven

A  Groups are a very simple aspect of sociology; the definition makes them seem more academic.

B  If all sociologists cannot agree on a definition of groups, then groups cannot exist.

C  A shared definition allows sociologists from around the world to collaborate.

D  Having a shared definition helps in understanding the behavior of people in society.