MCQs on the Social Psychology

1. Someone asks you to bring dip to a party and you agree. Later the person asks you to also bring popcorn, chips, and sodas. The person has used which compliance strategy?

2. hen subjects in Milgram’s obedience experiments received their orders over the phone, they

3. In North America, male friendships are __________ based and female friendships are __________ .

4. After Mrs. Keech’s doomsday predictions failed, her followers suddenly became interested in convincing others they were right. This turn of events is predicted by __________ theory.

5. Scapegoating is releasing aggression on __________ targets.

6. During the Stanford Prison study,

7. Solomon Asch’s classic experiment (in which subjects judged a standard line and comparison lines) was arranged to test the limits of

8. In his classic studies of conformity, Asch demonstrated that

9. Which is TRUE regarding choosing a mate

10. __________ is the process of making inferences about behavior.

11. An example of a superordinate goal is

12. Physical proximity increases attraction because it

13. A reference group is

14. Frustration probably encourages aggression because it

15. The study in which college students attached a bumper sticker for a militant black organization to their cars and then received frequent traffic citations demonstrates

16. Groups reward members with __________ and __________ for comformity.

17. Zimbardo interpreted the results of his simulated prison study as an indication of the

18. Which of the following was a significant factor in determining the degree of obedience in Milgram’s series of experiments?

19. Cognitive dissonance theory is based on the human need for

20. How individuals are affected by the presence of others is the focus of study in the field of