1 Katherine, a professor of engineering at UCLA, thinks women are bad at engineering. As a
result, she spends more time and devotes more attention and assistance to her male students.
She finds men perform better in her class than women. This is an example of:
Select one:
a. Availability heuristic
b. Representativeness heuristic
c. Self-fulfilling prophecy
d. Confirmatory hypothesis testing
2 Having which of the following combinations of self-esteem will lead you to respond in a
defensive or hostile manner to negative feedback?
Select one:
a. high implicit self-esteem and high explicit self-esteem
b. low implicit self-esteem and high explicit self-esteem
c. low implicit self-esteem and low explicit self-esteem
d. high implicit self-esteem and low explicit self-esteem
3 _____ are mental shortcuts that provide efficient but sometimes error-prone answers to
common judgmental problems.
Select one:
a. Mental deliberations
b. Heuristics
c. Pluralistic judgments
d. Base rates
4 After 9/11, many people avoided airplanes out of safety concerns because of the___
Select one:
a. confirmation bias
b. planning fallacy
c. representativeness heuristic
d. availability heuristic
5 While waiting for an interview, another candidate sits across from you. He is unshaven, his
clothes are wrinkled and his shoes are dirty. According to research, how might this affect
your self-esteem?
Select one:
a. It may improve your self-esteem because of downward social comparison.
b. It is unlikely to affect your self-esteem because he is not similar to you.
c. It may improve your self-esteem because it distracts your attention from the interview.
d. It may hurt your self-esteem because you feel worse about the situation.
6 Research comparing predictions from self-verification motivation theories vs.
self-enhancement motivation theories has found that:
Select one:
a. People prefer information about themselves that is self-consistent, but are more likely to
believe information about themselves that is self-enhancing.
b. Self-enhancement motivation always wins out
c. People prefer information about themselves that is self-enhancing, but are more likely to
believe information about themselves that is self-consistent.
d. Self-verification motivation always wins out
7 Michael is thinking about joining a fraternity that engage in various levels of hazing, 1) a
frat that does not haze at all, 2) a frat that hazes once at initiation, 3) a frat that hazes at
initiation and when first recruited, and 4) a frat that hazes repeatedly throughout the entire
recruitment period. According to cognitive dissonance theory, which will result in the
greatest liking of the fraternity assuming he joins?
Select one:
a. The frat that hazes repeatedly throughout the recruitment process.
b. The frat that hazes at initiation and when first recruited
c. The frat that does not haze at all
d. The frat that hazes once at initiation
8 In a laboratory experiment, participants are asked to pull as hard on a rope as they can
either alone or simultaneously with another person. What is likely to happen?
Select one:
a. Participants will pull harder when with another person than when pulling alone
b. Participants will pull harder when alone than with another person.
c. Participants will pull for a shorter period of time when alone
d. Participants will pull equally hard in both conditions
9 Participants in a laboratory study are asked to drink an unpleasant liquid. All are then asked
to tell the “next person” that the liquid tasted good. Half are paid $50 to do so and half
are paid $5 to do so. Later, the experimenter asks the participants in both groups to rate
how tasty the liquid was. If these participants are typical, what will happen?
Select one:
a. The $5 group will rate the liquid as better tasting
b. Both groups will rate the liquid as terrible tasting
c. Both groups will rate the liquid equally well
d. The $50 group will rate the liquid as better tasting
10 Match each statement with either true or false.
Schemas influence thoughts, memories and behavior(T/F)
Preexisting expectations are related to schema activation.(T/F)
Schemas can be primed outside of conscious awareness.(T/F)
Only stimuli that we are aware of can activate schemas(T/F)
11 According to Tesser’s Self-Evaluation Maintenance (SEM) Theory, what determines if
you will engage in reflection or social comparison following a close other’s success on a
task?
Select one:
a. Whether you were reared in a collectivist or individualist culture
b. The relevance of the task/domain to your self-concept
c. Your level of self-awareness
d. Your level of self-esteem
12 Research on the connection between how we perceive ourselves and how others perceive
us has found which of the following to be true?
Select one:
a. the connection between how others see us and how we see ourselves is strong
b. the connection between how we think others see us and how we see ourselves is weak
c. the connection between how others see us and how we see ourselves is weak
d.the connection between how others see us and how we think others see us is strong
13 An anxious student purposely provokes an argument with his girlfriend immediately
before he has to study for an important final exam. Such a strategy may be an attempt at:
Select one:
a. Self-enhancement
b. Self-monitoring
c. Self-verification
d. Self-handicapping
14 Research shows that group decisions tend to be more extreme than individual’s decisions.
This phenomenon is captured by the concept of
Select one:
a. group polarization
b. groupthink
c. social loafing
d. social inoculation
15 According to self-perception theory, which of the following people would rate themselves
as the biggest sports fan?
Select one:
a. Javier, who sat right in front of the flashing applause sign and noticed that he clapped
every time the sign said to.
b. Nivia, whose friends nudged her to get her to clap
c. Trina, who cheered a lot in order to make her friend Eleanor happy
d. Stephen, who noticed that he was cheering more than other people
16 Imagine a group of like-minded people getting together to write an important document
for the foundation of a new country. What should the Founding Fathers (…I mean this
group of like-minded people) do to decrease the likelihood of falling prey to groupthink?
Select one:
a. Invite people with differing perspectives (or backgrounds – e.g. women and non-White
people!) to sit down in the “room where it happens” and help make edits to the document
b. Designate group members to play the role of “critical evaluator” and pose
counterarguments
c. Organize the group into smaller sub-groups responsible for making decisions.
d. All of the above.
17 According to research on social facilitation the fact that professional sports are being
played with no fans should:
Select one:
a. Decrease the athlete’s performance
b. Increase the athlete’s performance
c. Have no impact on the athlete’s performance