Top 150+ Solved Social Psychology 2 MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Social Facilitation occurs:
a. to the tendency for people to do less in a group setting
b. to the tendency to keep personal opinions to themselves for fear of upsetting the group
c. when the presence of other people watching improves a person’s performance
d. when the presence of other people watching hinders a person\s performance
Q. Groupthink is defined as:
a. when an attitude becomes stronger in group presence
b. thinking that revolves around keeping harmony within a group through not disagreeing with group opinion
c. the tendency to do less in a group situation
d. improved performance when people are watching
Q. In Stanley Migram's experiment on the role of obedience, the ____________ was theperson who worked with Milgram and played the part of an authority figure.
a. teacher
b. learner
c. experimenter
d. doctor
Q. In Stanley Milgram's experiment on the role of obedience, the ___________ was the subject who was being observed and did not know what the experiment was about orwhat was being studied.
a. learner
b. experimenter
c. teacher
d. milgram
Q. ____________________ is a change in behavior or belief as a result of group pressure.
a. cohesiveness
b. conformity
c. compliance
d. obedience
Q. Publicly acting in accord with social pressure while privately disagreeing is called
a. acceptance
b. compliance
c. reactance
d. interaction
Q. Both acting and believing in accord with social pressure is called
a. acceptance
b. reactance
c. compliance
d. interaction
Q. An important difference between Asch's experiment in which participants judged thelength of lines and Sherif's experiment in which participants judged the movement of light was that
a. asch\s participants were older than were sherif\s
b. there was an obviously correct answer in judging the length of lines but that was not so in judging the movement of light
c. asch\s participants made their judgments privately whereas sherif\s participants made their judgments publicly
d. asch\s participants were all male whereas sherif\s participants were both male
Q. In Asch's study of perceptual judgment involving the length of lines, naive participantsconformed __________________ of the time to the false judgments of the confederates.
a. 10 percent
b. 37 percent
c. 68 percent
d. 92 percent
Q. Participants' tendencies to obey the experimenter's commands to shock a victim werehighest when the experimenter was ___________ and the victim was ___________.
a. close; distant
b. close; close
c. distant; distant
d. distant; close
Q. To believe that Asch's compliant participants were particularly spineless people is to
a. forget that behavior shapes belief
b. overlook other personality characteristics that determine conformity
c. make the fundamental attribution error
d. ignore how the status of the experimenter shapes behavior
Q. How social pressure may lead us to perform immoral acts is best illustrated by studies of
a. psychological reactance
b. spontaneous self-concept
c. obedience to authority
d. informational influence
Q. The effect of group size on conformity has been explained by _____________ theory.
a. cognitive dissonance
b. social norm
c. psychological reactance
d. social impact
Q. Milgram reported that a participant's tendency to obey the experimenter decreaseddramatically
a. when two other participants defied the experimenter
b. when the participant could not hear the responses of the learner
c. when the experimenter was a female
d. when the experimenter was younger than the participant