PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING STUDY GUIDE
1:According to the lecture, what is anti-social behavior?
A:Aggression
B:Behavior performed with the goal of hurting another person
C:Behavior performed with the goal of benefiting another person
D:Behavior with the goal of avoiding other people
2: Which component is not critical to attraction?
A:Proximity
B:Reciprocity
C:Familiarity
D:Personality
3:Mary is about to take the SATs. She fills in the demographic information first – including that she is female – a group stereotyped to be bad at math. Mary does worse on the test than if she hadn’t been reminded of her gender identity. This is an example of:
A:Stereotyping
B:Stereotype threat
C:Ingroup bias
D:Outgroup threat
4:What was a key difference between Kohlberg and Gilligan’s approach to morality?
A:Kohlberg cared about morality; Gilligan did not
B:Kohlberg only studied morality in children; Gilligan did not
C:Kohlberg took a rationalist approach; Gilligan took a care-centered approach
D:Kohlberg took a care-centered approach; Gilligan took a rationalist approach
5:Typically in romantic relationships there is an initial surge of passion followed an increase in companionate love. This is best explained by:
A:Proximity
B:Propinquity
C:Valence
D:Arousal
6: All of the following help to maintain stereotypes EXCEPT:
A:Media exposure
B:Attributions
C: Central route to persuasion
D: Self-fulfilling prophecies
7:At the end of the Disney movie Hercules (1997), Hercules sacrificed his life for Meg’s. This is an example of:
A:Pro-social behavior
B:Altruistic behavior
C:Love for another person
D:Anti-social behavior
8:Which of the following cannot be a primary goal of instrumental aggression?
A:To gain resources, or win a competition
B:To harm or injure someone
C:Self-defense
D:To gain attention
9:How do groups make motivation for violence?
A:They generate outgroup love
B:They reduce group identification (promote individuation / self-awareness)
C:They reduce perceptions of threat
D:They provide social and material incentives
10:What does the trolley problem tell us about moral psychology?
A:Humans only use reason when making moral judgments
B:Humans only use emotions when making moral judgments
C:Humans use both emotion and reason to make moral judgments
D:Moral judgments are a trolley careening off the tracks
11:Which of the following is not one of the 3 dilemmas in human moral psychology?
A:Me vs. us
B:Me vs. you
C:Punch it out or time out
D:Emotion vs reason
12:Which of the following qualities is necessary for a hypothesis?
A:To note any confounding variables
B:To describe the environment that the study will be done in
C:To include a control and experimental group
D:To be testable
13:What is being measured in the Marshmallow Test?
A:Whether marshmallows are children’s favorite snack
B:Whether children react impatiently when told to wait for a snack
C:Whether children in groups are more likely to eat a marshmallow
D: A child’s ability to delay gratification (or practice self-control)
14:If you want know whether one variable causes another, which research method should you choose?
A:Conduct an experiment
B:Test for a correlation
C:Engage in naturalistic observation
D:Conduct archival research
15:In the Heinz dilemma, a man is deciding whether he should steal medicine from a pharmacy for his sick wife. A rationalist approach to morality would say:
A:It is okay to steal the medicine because the wife’s life is worth more than the medicine
B:It is okay to steal the medicine in the moment if Heinz is willing to face the consequences
C:It is okay to steal if the pharmacist says so
D:It is never okay to steal
16: What is the “misattribution of arousal”?
A:The process by which people can correctly identify when they are aroused
B:A disorder in which people can’t feel aroused
C:The people make a mistake in assuming what is causing them to feel aroused
D:When arousal happens close to a person
17: Prosocial behavior is:
A:One person is in need and the other acts to eliminate the person’s need
B:Behavior that benefits members on an ingroup
C:Being social and outgoing rather than cold and aloof
D: Behavior that benefits society
18: Mya the Scientist wants to know if there is evidence for subtle forms of gender discrimination in hiring. One way to test this question would be:
A:Use the Implicit Association Task to measure attitudes towards men and women
B:Send out job applications that are identical except for the applicant’s names (either Emily or Mike)
C:Ask people to report whether they think male or female candidates are better for the job
D:Track people’s attitudes about gender over time
19: occurs when individuals who do not fit their stereotype are thought of as “exceptions to the rule.”
A:Subtyping
B:Subgrouping
C:Prejudice
D: Discrimination
20:As Jason plays basketball, someone on the other team starts to heckle him and get in his face. Finally Jason can’t stand it anymore and he punches the heckler in the face. Which of the following is most likely to be true:
A:Punching the heckler helps Jason to blow off steam and he feels a sense of catharsis
B:Punching the heckler makes Jason more likely to punch someone in the future
C:Jason will immediately feel guilty about punching the heckler and will never do it again
D:Jason will find the act of punching the heckler to be enjoyable
