BAPSY Social Psychology 2

Question 1

The 'bystander effect' suggests that the likelihood of a person receiving help in an emergency decreases as the number of bystanders:

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Increases

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Decreases

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Stays constant

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Reaches exactly two

Question 2

In Milgram's obedience studies, which factor most increased participants' likelihood of defying the authority figure?

Accepted Answer

Seeing another 'teacher' refuse to continue

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Being paid more money

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Receiving verbal encouragement from the experimenter

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Being in a smaller room

Question 3

Which cognitive bias leads people to attribute their own failures to situational factors while attributing others' failures to dispositional factors?

Accepted Answer

Actor-observer bias

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Self-serving bias

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Fundamental attribution error

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Halo effect

Question 4

Muzafer Sherif's Robbers Cave experiment demonstrated that intergroup conflict could be reduced most effectively through:

Accepted Answer

Superordinate goals requiring cooperation

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Mere contact between groups

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Separate but equal resource allocation

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Competitive sports between groups

Question 5

Social loafing is most likely to be reduced when individual contributions to a group task are:

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Identifiable

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Anonymous

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Compared to group averages

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Evaluated by outsiders

Question 6

The phenomenon where group discussion leads members to adopt more extreme positions than they initially held is called:

Accepted Answer

Group polarization

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Groupthink

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Social facilitation

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Deindividuation

Question 7

Which persuasion route in the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) relies on superficial cues like source attractiveness rather than careful argument evaluation?

Accepted Answer

Peripheral route

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Central route

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Systematic route

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Heuristic route