Downloadable Test Bank For Social Psychology 12th Edition Baron
Downloadable Test Bank For Social Psychology 12th Edition Baron
Downloadable Test Bank For Social Psychology 12th Edition Baron
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
1) The process during which we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about the social world
is known as .
A) encoding D) schemas
B) automatic processing E) heuristics
C) social cognition
Answer: C
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2) Mental frameworks for organizing and processing social information are known as .
A) affective states D) heuristics
B) anchoring frameworks E) cognitive loads
C) schemas
Answer: C
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7) When you notice something and then remember it, you are involving the processes known as
and .
A) attention; encoding D) schematic confluence; attention congruity
B) retrieval; encoding E) response tendency; response acquiescence
C) attention; retrieval
Answer: A
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8) Retrieval of information from memory is involved in social thought. When tested to see what
information is more readily available from memory, individuals are more likely to respond with
_.
A) schema-incongruent
B) schema-congruent
C) memory-impoverished
D) a description of the schema itself
E) depending on the situation, either schema-incongruent or schema-congruent
Answer: E
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9) Angelique comes to class, avidly looking forward to her professor's lecture on east Ecuadoran carpet-
weaving. Instead, the professor whips out a deck of cards and starts doing close-up magic for the class.
Angelique will most likely .
A) encode this as memorable information that is inconsistent with her professor schema
B) remind herself that this is, after all, a carpet-weaving lecture
C) revise her professor schema
D) revise her Ecuadoran professor schema
E) be amazed due to mood-congruent recall
Answer: A
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10) One evening, after seeing a(n) at the Cineplex, you are on your way home. You drive into a
store parking lot, where another driver grabs a parking place you had spotted and were waiting for. You
perceive the behavior as very .
A) violent movie; aggressive D) violent movie; funny
B) comedy; aggressive E) comedy; moving
C) drama; meaningless
Answer: A
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12) Which of the following individuals is exhibiting behaviors or thoughts consistent with priming?
A) After finishing a romantic novel, Natalie passionately embraces her boyfriend and tells him how much
she loves him.
B) After watching a horror film, Jane comments on the fact that she did not find the film to be 'scary' at
all.
C) Hector, a medical school student, realizes that his sore throat is probably the sign of a mild cold and
not a serious illness.
D) Isaac, a psychology graduate student, decides to take his best friend to the hospital emergency room
when he discovers that his friend has overdosed on a certain drug.
E) George, a business student, decides that the fastest way for him to become wealthy is to start his own
business while still a student.
Answer: A
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13) In a study, participants who were allowed to "express the influence of a prime," during a first task,
were by that prime during a second similar task.
A) less influenced
B) more influenced
C) influenced at about the same level
D) unable to complete the second task due to a strong influence
E) so suspicious that there ceased to exist any influence at all
Answer: A
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14) Tracy encounters a member of a certain political group whose views and attributes are inconsistent
with her schemas about that group. What is the MOST likely conclusion that Tracy will make?
A) Tracy will completely change her schema about the group.
B) Tracy will place this individual into a subtype of those who do not confirm her schema.
C) Tracy will completely ignore this information.
D) Tracy will suppress conscious awareness of this conflicting information, but it will exert an influence
on her behavior without her awareness.
E) Tracy will not lose confidence in her ability to create schemas.
Answer: B
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Answer: A
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16) Elton gets on an elevator in an office building, along with three others. All passengers face front,
except a woman, who continues to stand facing the back of the elevator all the way to the 21st floor. The
most likely reason for Elton's discomfort for this behavior:
A) he assumes it is some sort of feminist rebelliousness.
B) he believes the woman may have a vision or other problem.
C) the behavior is a contradiction of Elton's elevator-riding schema.
D) he thinks this is an attempt by the woman to gain his attention.
E) he thinks it is an attempt by the woman to change the elevator-riding "tradition" in the building.
Answer: C
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17) Once it is activated, a schema may have automatic effects on behavior. This can cause individuals to
_.
A) develop information overload and a temporarily diminished cognitive capacity
B) behave inconsistently with the schema without realizing the stress this puts on their mental
frameworks
C) behave consistently with the schema without being aware of the reason for the behavior
D) subconsciously reject their own behavior and modify their opinions
E) notice information that is inconsistent with the schema more readily than consistent information
Answer: C
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20) The academic performance of certain students dramatically improved when teachers were led to
believe that those students were intellectually gifted, regardless of the true ability levels of the students.
This result shows the importance of _.
A) information overload
B) information processing and base rates
C) hard work without the expectation of after-school help
D) schemas and self-fulfilling prophecies
E) the in-group phenomenon
Answer: D
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"I seem to have made an impression," she said as her aunt came up.
"I didn't know strangers were such a rarity here that people stared at
them the way that man did at me. I wonder who he is and what made
him look so taken by surprise."
"Oh, I suppose he didn't know that any of the summer residents had
arrived," returned Miss Elliott, "and he wondered who you were and
where you came from. There aren't usually any summer visitors here
before the middle of June."
"I suppose that must have been it," returned Gwen, at the same time
feeling that it did not quite explain matters.
At the side door, by which it seemed they were expected to enter,
they met Ora. She turned away her head and hurried around to the
kitchen.
"What a pretty girl," said Gwen, looking after her. "Such a lovely
complexion. But, oh dear, why does she lace so painfully? Doesn't
she know wasp waists are all out of style? That they belong to the
early Victorian age and passed out with ringlets and high
foreheads?"
"She probably doesn't know," returned Miss Elliott. "I notice that
many of the girls up here still cling to the traditions of their
grandmothers in more than one direction. I have heard that one, at
least, died from the effects of tight lacing."
"Then they need a missionary as much as the heathen Chinee
does," observed Gwen as she entered the house.
She had gone out bareheaded but she tossed aside the golf-cape,
which was none too warm for out-door wear, and sat down by the
window. Miss Phenie, established in a comfortable rocking-chair,
was quite ready for a chat while she knitted a "sweaterette" as she
called it. Miss Phosie was in the kitchen getting supper, but Miss
Phenie felt that it was due to her position as elder sister to entertain
the guests rather than to give a hand to the evening's work. It was
always her attitude and one of which no one had ever heard Miss
Phosie complain. The most that she had ever done was to remark to
Almira Green: "It's very easy to be hospitable when you do the
entertaining and some one else does the work." But that was under
great provocation when the minister, the surveyor, the doctor and the
editor of The Zephyr had all arrived on the island in one day and all
had been entertained at Cap'n Ben's house because there seemed
nowhere else for them to go. On that occasion Miss Phenie, as
usual, had asserted her right to the position of hostess, and had left
Miss Phosie alone to wash the dishes as well as to get the dinner,
Ora having gone to Portland for the day.
"Well," said Almira Green to whom Miss Phosie's remark was made,
"there was Cap'n Ben to do the talking, and as they was all men I
don't see why Phenie was called upon to set with them all the time."
"I guess she thought she had to," Miss Phosie had returned with the
feeling that perhaps she had said too much.
To-day, however, there was not much reason for Miss Phenie's
presence in the kitchen, for, while Miss Phosie made the soda
biscuits Ora could be setting the table. The lobsters had been boiled
that morning, so there were only the fish and potatoes to fry, and the
preserves to be set on the table with the cake. Miss Phenie, in tight
fitting black alpaca, rocked comfortably and asked questions till
Gwen, by the window, saw Luther Williams pass. "Who is that, Miss
Phenie?" she asked. "That tall man with the serious face and the
kind eyes?"
"I guess you mean Mr. Williams. I presume he is taking his after
supper smoke. He boards with us, you know."
"Oh!" Gwen wondered why he had not appeared at the table. "Is he
a relative of yours?"
"None in the world, and we never heard that he had any. He gets a
daily paper and advertising letters sometimes, but I never knew him
to get any other mail. He's real well educated, and reads everything
he can lay his hands on, but he is a very quiet man. He never talks
much to anybody, but there ain't a kinder man living. If anybody's in
trouble he's the first on hand, and the first to put his hand in his
pocket."
"Is he a fisherman?"
"Yes. His pound is just off your point. He's been real lucky and it's
said he's right well off."
"Has he boarded with you long?"
"Ever since he came to the island; that's about twenty years now. He
came for a week's fishing, he said, and he's stayed ever since. I
never heard a word against Mr. Williams. Everybody likes him, and if
he is rather close-mouthed you don't hear him speak ill of anyone.