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Questions
1. Suppose you wanted to get people to use electricity where you work by getting them to turn off the lights when they leave. Which of the followig is most likely to succeed, based on research in social psychology?
A. Ask people to sign the public pledge and write regarding times when they did turn off the lights
B. Ask people to do both - sign the public pledge and write regarding times when they didn't turn off the lights
C. Get people to sign a public pledge that they will turn off the lights when they leave
D. Ask people to write regarding times when they forgot to turn off the lights when they left
2. The ____________________ explanation of helping behavior has trouble explaining prosocial behaviors that have no obvious personal benefit.
A. Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis
B. Social Exchange Theory
C. A and B only
D. All of the above
E. Evolutionary Theory
3. Which of the following interventions has been shown to decrease people's waste production?
A. Public shaming through making everyone's electric energy usage visible on a website
B. Posting signs commanding people to limit their waste production
C. Inducing feelings of hypocrisy
D. Broadcasting public service announcements that inform people of the dire consequences of not recycling
4. Which of the following scenarios demonstrates pluralistic ignorance?
A. You don't help a person that is groaning and laying on the sidewalk because everyone else around you doesn't seem concerned, so you conclude there is nothing wrong
B. You are less likely to help a crying child when you are in a crowd because you feel you share less of the responsibility to intervene
C. You don't help a cat stuck in a tree because that is the job of a firefighter and you don't want to risk your neck to help an animal
D. You don't call the cops when you hear a scream from next door because you assume that one of your other neighbors will do so
5. Karen is a political official who takes pride in the fact that her personal perspective does not influence her work in the Housing and Urban Development Administration (HUD). Karen's parents hold a deep mistrust of immigrants, and she has done her best to try to change the way her parents think about the issue by referencing statistics that indicate immigrants commit fewer crimes than native citizens. Despite her best intentions, an Implicit Association Test (IAT) indicated that she has negative associations with immigrants too. In fact, she sometimes responds to encounters with immigrants with a panicked, visceral negative feeling. With the help of the analytics department, she makes sure that her personal feelings do not impact the distribution of resources that HUD offers to immigrant communities. This example demonstrates that in some cases ________ can occur without ________.
A. Stereotyping; prejudice
B. Discrimination; self-fulfilling prophecy
C. Prejudice; discrimination
D. Stereotyping; discrimination
6. Invisible social support can often be more effective than visible social support because:
A. It does not make people feel less competent
B. It does not trigger physiological arousal in the way visible support does
C. It makes us believe in the kindness of strangers
D. It encourages people to form tighter social bonds
7. What were the results of Bushman and colleagues' (2007) study of religiously-sanctioned violence?
A. Nonreligious participants were more likely than religious participants to behave aggressively when God sanctioned violence in a Bible story
B. Religious participants were more likely than nonreligious participants to behave aggressively when God sanctioned violence in a Bible story
C. Religious and nonreligious people were equally likely to not behave aggressively when God sanctioned violence in a Bible story
D. Religious and nonreligious participants were equally likely to behave aggressively when God sanctioned violence in a Bible story.