History of Social Psychology
This man, considered one of the founders of social psychology, wrote a 1908 textbook on the subject.
A) Floyd Allport
B) Edward Ross
C) William McDougall
D) Kurt Lewin
C) William McDougall
his type of comparison involves contrasting ourselves with those worse off to protect self-esteem.
A) Upward comparison
B) Lateral comparison
C) Counterfactual comparison
D) Downward comparison
D) Downward comparison
Adults with this type of facial structure are often judged as more helpless.
A) Square-faced
B) Baby-faced
C) Mature-faced
D) Oval-faced
B) Baby-faced
What heuristic involves judging the likelihood of events by how easily examples come to mind.
A) Anchoring heuristic
B) Representativeness heuristic
C) Availability heuristic
D) Framing heuristic
C) Availability heuristic
The rise of this dictator in the 1930s greatly influenced interest in social psychology.
A) Adolf Hitler
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Benito Mussolini
D) Mao Zedong
A) Adolf Hitler
This theory by Leary and Baumeister suggests self-esteem is a monitor of social belonging.
A) Terror Management Theory
B) Sociometer Theory
C) Self-Discrepancy Theory
D) Self-Perception Theory
B) Sociometer Theory
This theory by Jones suggests we infer personality traits based on choice, expectedness, and intended effects.
A) Fundamental Attribution Theory
B) Cognitive Dissonance Theory
C) Correspondent Inference Theory
D) Social Learning Theory
C) Correspondent Inference Theory
Stanley Milgram’s famous 1960s experiments demonstrated this type of obedience.
A) Constructive
B) Blind
C) Rational
D) Destructive
D) Destructive
Around age 4, children usually develop this cognitive capacity, which allows them to understand that others have beliefs, desires, and motivations.
A) Abstract reasoning
B) Theory of mind
C) Narrative identity
D) Self-discrepancy
B) Theory of mind
According to Kelley’s covariation theory, consensus, distinctiveness, and this factor help us make attributions.
A) Confirmation
B) Consistency
C) Comparison
D) Clarity
B) Consistency
The 1970s “crisis” in social psychology led to this era, marked by more rigorous ethics, multiple research methods, and multicultural perspectives.
A) The Cognitive Era
B) The Pluralistic Era
C) The Experimental Era
D) The Interactionist Era
B) The Pluralistic Era
This researcher’s conformity experiments in the 1950s showed people yielding to group pressure.
Solomon Asch?_
According to self-discrepancy theory, the three selves are the actual, the ought, and ________.
ideal Self
his common error involves overestimating personal factors and underestimating situational ones.
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error?_
This bias involves people clinging to their initial beliefs even after they have been discredited.
belief perseverance?
he interactionist perspective, introduced by Kurt Lewin, emphasized the relationship between these two factors.
What are the person and the environment?_
he “facial feedback hypothesis” proposes that doing this can influence our emotions.
changing our facial expressions (like smiling or frowning)
Higgins (1977) first demonstrated this effect, where recent concepts influence impressions.
What is priming?
What personality trait describes individuals who focus heavily on how they are seen by others.
public self-consciousness