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:

Accepted Answer

Increases

Answer

The bystander effect demonstrates that diffusion of responsibility among more onlookers reduces the probability any individual will intervene.

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

Answer

Social proof from a peer who refused significantly undermined the authority's power and emboldened participants to disobey.

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

Answer

The actor-observer bias reflects our tendency to use situational explanations for ourselves but dispositional explanations when judging others.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Superordinate goals requiring cooperation

Answer

Superordinate goals that required both groups to cooperate reduced hostility more effectively than simple contact alone.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Identifiable

Answer

When people know their individual output can be identified and evaluated, they are less likely to reduce their effort in group settings.

BAPSY - Bachelor of Arts in Psychology Practice Test