Start Quiz: Social Psychology MCQ Quiz by Saylor Foundation

Question: If a lifeguard at the beach hesitates before jumping in to save someone who may or may not require help getting back to the beach safely, the lifeguard would be said to suffer from:

Choices:

evaluation apprehension.

new employee nervousness.

incompetence on the job.

an anxiety disorder.

Question: The basic definition of aggression involves:

Choices:

causing harm, even if by accident.

physical behaviors only.

feelings of anger.

engaging in an action with the intent to cause harm.

Question: Aggression is considered to be instrumental if it:

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makes the perpetrator feel guilty.

is used to achieve some other goal.

causes harm.

is solely intended to hurt someone's feelings.

Question: In his classic study on conformity, Asch asked participants to make a series of perceptual judgments after hearing numerous other people say obviously incorrect answers out loud. He was most interested in learning:

Choices:

whether or not the participant would say the correct answer.

whether or not the participant felt uncomfortable during the study.

if the participant questioned his or her own ideas of what was correct.

if the participant would quit the study before it was done.

Question: Helping behavior is probably NOT related to which of the following factors?

Choices:

Whether the person in need is a blood relative

Whether the helper has been reinforced for prior helping behavior

Whether the person in need appears to be a legitimate victim of a crime

Whether the witness and the person in need speak the same language

Question: Milgram found that participants were less likely to obey when:

Choices:

another participant questioned the legitimacy of what was going on in the study.

the study was conducted in a professional environment at the university.

the experimenter was dressed like a professional scientist.

they were unable to see the learner face-to-face.

Question: Conformity can best be described as:

Choices:

demanding that others do what you say.

granting someone's request.

following an order.

going along with the crowd.

Question: Social learning theory suggests that:

Choices:

we learn aggressive behavior much like we learn many other things, by watching other people do it and be reinforced for it.

we learn not to be aggressive by being punished directly for our aggressive actions.

watching someone else be punished for being aggressive has no effect on our own levels of aggression.

aggression is innate, or something we are born with.

Question: Frustrating situations tend to:

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be unrelated to subsequent aggressive behaviors.

irritate people more than anger them.

remind people to keep their emotions in check.

increase aggression.

Question: Diffusion of responsibility occurs when witnesses to an emergency:

Choices:

do not recognize that a situation is actually an emergency.

decide that the costs of helping are too great to become involved.

do not know how to help the person in need.

equally divide the theoretical responsibility for helping among the number of onlookers.

Question: Which of the following scenarios is NOT an example of indirect aggression?

Choices:

Spreading false rumors about someone

Posting an unflattering photo of someone on a social media site

Blaming an innocent person for starting a false rumor about a third party

Intentionally hitting someone hard during a game of touch football