Group Dynamics Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Group Dynamics explores the psychological and social processes that occur within and between groups. The course examines theories and research related to group formation, structure, leadership, decision-making, conflict resolution, and group performance. Students will analyze how group roles, norms, communication patterns, and diversity impact individual behavior and group outcomes. Through case studies, collaborative projects, and interactive exercises, students will gain practical skills for working effectively in teams and understanding the complexities of group interactions in various professional and social settings.
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Social Psychology and Human Nature Comprehensive Edition 3rd Edition by Roy F. Baumeister
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Chapter 1: The Mission and the Method
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Q1) Most social psychological research has been conducted in the U.S. and a few very similar nations. According to the textbook, how well do findings generalize to other cultures?
A) With only one notable exception, no cross-cultural differences have been found in any area of social psychology.
B) In general, there appear to be many large and important cross-cultural differences across areas of social psychology.
C) In general, there appear to be many large and important cross-cultural differences for women, but very few cross-cultural differences for men.
D) It is not yet known; not enough research has been replicated cross-culturally.
Answer: D
Q2) Neuroscience integrates the fields of social psychology and biological psychology.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) In social psychology, the notation "\(p\) <.05" signifies ____________________. Answer: statistical significance
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Chapter 2: Culture and Nature
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Q1) Social animals will generally help ___.
A) anyone in need
B) relatives
C) other members of their community
D) total strangers
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following statements about survival is most accurate?
A) Survival is based on individual fitness, not on situational constraints.
B) Survival depends totally on circumstances, not on individual fitness.
C) Survival depends in part on both individual fitness and on environmental circumstance.
D) Survival depends on gene mutation.
Answer: C
Q3) Research indicates that humans and other primates (e.g., chimpanzees) evolved to care more about the future than about immediate costs and benefits.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Culture primarily serves to teach people ____________________.
Answer: restraint self-control or restraint self control
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Chapter 3: The Self
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Q1) Research suggests that, compared to East Asians, Northern Americans and Western Europeans tend to have more ____________________ self-construals.
Answer: independent
Q2) The idea that people learn about themselves from interacting with other people is called the ____________________.
Answer: looking-glass self.
Q3) According to your text's analysis of revising self-knowledge, changing the way you think about yourself is difficult because ____.
A) people lack the discipline to implement changes they consider B) people don't want to make changes in self-knowledge
C) people around us see us as having stable traits and that exerts pressure to not change
D) people are constantly changing their social contexts
Answer: C
Q4) Since about the 1970s, people's self-esteem scores have been on the rise. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Choices and Actions: The Self in Control
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Q1) The so-called Zeigarnik effect refers to the tendency for people ____.
A) to experience automatic, intrusive thoughts about a goal when pursuit of that goal has been interrupted
B) to make overly optimistic plans, failing to make allowances for unexpected events or problems
C) to feel relatively less stress or suffering when they think that they have the option of escaping from a situation (compared to when they think they do not have the option of escaping)
D) to give greater weight to potential losses than to potential gains when making decisions
Q2) When asked whether they have any current goals or personal projects, only about 50% of people indicate that they do; other people are unable to identify any current goals that they have.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How are habits related to the different processing systems humans use?
Q4) Do social psychologists believe that people have free will? How important is perceived free will or autonomy to people? What happens when people believe that their freedom of choice has been revoked?
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Chapter 5: Social Cognition
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Q1) The fact that men and women report having had very different numbers of sex partners can be almost completely explained by the fact that men have engaged in more homosexual sex.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Richard is a piano major and enters two music competitions in the same month. He places first in one of the competitions, but doesn't place at all in the other. If Richard is like most people, he will probably ____.
A) make internal attributions in both cases.
B) make external attributions in both cases.
C) make an internal attribution for placing first, but an external attribution for not placing at all.
D) make an internal attribution for not placing at all, but an external attribution for placing first.
Q3) The actor-observer bias holds that actors tend to make _____________________ attributions.
Q4) The tendency to judge the frequency or likelihood of an event by the ease with which relevant instances come to mind is called the ____________________ heuristic.
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Chapter 6: Emotion and Affect
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Q1) A famous study conducted by social psychologists Aron and Dutton, found that a female experimenter was most likely to be called by participants after they had walked across a scary, narrow bridge as opposed to after they had walked across a normal, stable bridge. This finding can be most easily explained by ____.
A) the Yerkes-Dodson law
B) sham
C) catharsis
D) excitation transfer
Q2) Emotions can be sorted, or classified, along two basic dimensions: (1) unpleasant versus pleasant, and (2) ____________________.
Q3) Research suggests that venting one's anger is a positive way to reduce anger.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Positive emotions tend to be associated with ____.
A) challenging life events
B) low emotional intelligence
C) forming a social bond with someone else
D) breaking a social bond with someone else
Q5) Describe the branches, or dimensions, of emotional intelligence.
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Chapter 7: Attitudes, Beliefs and Consistency
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Q1) Much research suggests that people's attitudes are not predictive of their behaviors. However, in some cases, people's attitudes ARE highly predictive of their behaviors. Identify at least three factors that increase attitude-behavior consistency.
Q2) As discussed in the text, ____ serve interpersonal functions.
A) attitudes but not beliefs
B) beliefs but not attitudes
C) both attitudes and beliefs
D) neither attitudes nor beliefs
Q3) The fact that the gap between pro-condom attitudes and non-condom-using behaviors is larger among women than men best demonstrates ____.
A) effort justification
B) post-decision dissonance
C) attitude-behavior consistency
D) attitude polarization
Q4) The pressure to maintain consistency among beliefs and behaviors is ____.
A) equally present among humans versus animals
B) more present in animals than humans
C) more present in humans than animals
D) rarely present in humans or animals
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Chapter 8: Social Influence and Persuasion
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Q1) What does research suggest about the practice of "stealing thunder" (i.e., the practice of revealing potentially incriminating information early on in an argument, before one is forced to do so and before one's opponent has an opportunity to be the one to reveal it, so as to negate its [potentially damaging] impact)?
A) It is almost never effective.
B) It is only effective when audiences are processing information peripherally.
C) It is only effective when audiences are experts in the topic at hand.
D) It is generally very effective.
Q2) Which of the following social influence techniques is based on capturing and disrupting attention?
A) The labeling technique
B) The bait-and-switch
C) The door-in-the-face technique
D) The disrupt-then-reframe technique
Q3) In the elaboration likelihood model, heuristic/nonconscious processing is referred to as processing via the ____________________ route.
Q4) The ____________________ effect has been exploited to study informational social influence.
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Chapter 9: Prosocial Behavior: Doing Whats Best for Others
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Q1) Brenda has never forgiven Brad for having an affair he had a few years ago. Even though she has agreed to stay in the marriage, every time they have a new problem, what is Brenda likely to do (based on research cited in your text)?
A) Stay focused only on the problem at hand.
B) Stay focused only on the previous infidelity.
C) Remember the infidelity and bring it back up in the context of the new problem.
D) Try to forgive him for the issues related to the current problem.
Q2) The term "sensitivity about being the target of threatening upward comparison" refers to ____.
A) the tendency to compare oneself to unrealistically high standards and thus set oneself up for disappointment
B) a generalized tendency to worry excessively about what other people think of you
C) concern about not living up to others' expectations of you and therefore disappointing them
D) concern about outperforming others and having others resent you for it
Q3) Blaming the victim is an unfortunate consequence of the ____________________ assumption.
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Chapter 10: Aggression and Antisocial Behavior
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Q1) Research on the factors that increase aggression (e.g., alcohol, exposure to violent media, and narcissistic personality tendencies) suggests that such factors only increase aggression ____.
A) among males
B) when people are provoked or frustrated
C) among people who ARE NOT chronically violent
D) among people who ARE chronically violent
Q2) When male rats are under stress, they respond by either fighting or running away (i.e., with the fight or flight syndrome). By contrast, female rats respond with ____.
A) the right or flight syndrome
B) the tend and befriend syndrome
C) flight only
D) a tendency to hide
Q3) In domestic violence, aggression is highest between siblings.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Compare and contrast instinct theories of aggression with social learning theories of aggression. What empirical evidence is there to support either of these views?
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Chapter 11: Attraction and Exclusion
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Q1) Which of the following statements is MOST accurate regarding testosterone levels in men?
A) They usually dip after men reach their early twenties.
B) They are usually constant throughout life.
C) They do not appear to be associated with sex drive.
D) They do not appear to be associated with risk-taking behavior.
Q2) The mere exposure effect is probably an important part of the ____.
A) propinquity effect
B) matching hypothesis
C) reciprocity effect
D) "what is beautiful is good" effect
Q3) The tendency to expect rejection from others and to be hypersensitive about the possibility of rejection is known as propinquity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The tendency to expect rejection from others and to be hypersensitive to rejection, is known as ____________________.
Q5) Social exclusion can also be called ____________________.
Q6) Describe the necessary ingredients for a sense of belongingness.
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Chapter 12: Close Relationships: Passion, Intimacy, and Sexuality
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Q1) Nearly all research supports the view that men have a stronger sex drive than women. Which of the following is an invalid (i.e., not supported by evidence) stereotype for this point of view?
A) Men think about sex more often than women.
B) Men initiate sex more often.
C) Men separate love and sex more than women.
D) Men want more sexual partners than women.
Q2) Describe how both personal and situational characteristics influence one's experience of jealousy.
Q3) Lawson (1988) found that_____extramarital affairs lead to divorce.
A) all
B) most
C) some
D) a few
Q4) Research on gender differences in sex drive has found that, across virtually all measures, men have stronger sex drives than women.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Is sex better within the context of marriage or when one is single?
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Chapter 13: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations
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Q1) Considering all the different stereotypes that people hold of different groups, are most stereotypes positive, negative, or neutral?
A) Most are negative.
B) Most are positive.
C) Most are neutral.
D) About half are negative and about half are positive.
Q2) Research on prejudice against lesbian and gay people has shown that, in general, ____.
A) gay men experience more prejudice than lesbian women
B) lesbian women experience more prejudice than gay men
C) prejudice against these groups appears to be innate, or inborn
D) there has been strong prejudice against these groups in all known human societies
Q3) Research on inoculation against the stereotype threat was conducted on ____.
A) African Americans
B) women
C) older adults
D) homosexuals
Q4) Explain what stereotype threat is, and how it affects performance.
Q5) To what degree are stereotypes accurate?
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Chapter 14: Groups
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the three processes upon which social facilitation depends?
A) evaluation apprehension
B) distraction
C) bodily arousal
D) social loafing
Q2) Research suggests that, in the business world, the most successful chief executive officers (CEOs) are those who are resolute in their opinions as well as those who are
A) humble
B) extremely ambitious
C) feared by their employees
D) aggressive
Q3) Belonging to a human cultural group has two competing demands. They are ____.
A) similarity and uniqueness
B) happiness and sadness
C) approach and avoidance
D) religion and secularism
Q4) Explain how role differentiation satisfies two competing needs for humans as cultural animals.
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Chapter 15: Applying Social Psychology to Consumer Behavior
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Q1) How do grocery store advertising, grocery store format (layout), and grocery store location influence consumers' decisions about where to shop?
A) All three affect behavior.
B) Interestingly, location has very little impact.
C) Interestingly, format (layout) has the strongest impact of the three.
D) Advertising is the only one of these variables to have an impact.
Q2) Tim is simultaneously talking on his cell phone, checking an instant message, listening to a CD, and browsing the web. Consumer psychologists would say that he is engaged in ____.
A) time shrinkage
B) lateral cycling
C) polychronic activity
D) multilateral activity
Q3) Research indicates that credit card debt is most related to ____.
A) impulsive buying
B) general self-destructiveness
C) a tendency to feel generally out of control
D) time orientation
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Chapter 16: Applying Social Psychology to Health
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Q1) Are there any differences in health between people who have solid social support and people who don't?
A) No-psychologists suspect that there are differences, but research has not consistently found any evidence that social support makes a real difference.
B) Yes-although social support does not appear to improve people's physical health, it does improve their mood and general psychological well-being.
C) Yes-social support appears to improve physical and psychological well-being, though it does not improve objective measures of health (e.g., recovery time from illness).
D) Yes-social support has been tied to better health, more rapid recovery from illness, and a lower risk for mortality.
Q2) According to the general adaptation syndrome, long-term stressors ____.
A) can cause physiological (but not psychological) damage
B) can cause psychological (but not physiological) damage
C) can cause both physiological and psychological damage
D) have temporary negative effects, but cannot cause either physiological damage or psychological damage
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Chapter 17: Applying Social Psychology to the Workplace
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Q1) Mia has pictures of half-naked men all over her cubicle, and she is constantly making lewd jokes about sex and men as sex objects. Mia is engaged in ____.
A) affective commitment
B) quid pro quo harassment
C) hostile work environment harassment
D) leadership
Q2) Phil comes to work late, routinely misses meetings, and always uses the office copier for personal business. Phil is engaged in ____.
A) work withdrawal
B) affective commitment
C) quid pro quo harassment
D) mentoring
Q3) Organizational culture is ____ than organizational climate.
A) more stable
B) less stable
C) more important to managers
D) less important to managers
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Chapter 18: Applying Social Psychology to the Law
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Q1) When jurors have been exposed to pretrial publicity, they ____.
A) are somewhat more likely to deem the defendant guilty B) are somewhat more likely to deem the defendant innocent C) tend to think that they are biased by this exposure, even when they are not D) are able to disregard any information to which they have been exposed once the trial begins
Q2) According to the text, the best way to eliminate biases in jury judgments resulting from pretrial exposure to trial-related information is by making use of ____.
A) continuance
B) an extended voir dire
C) change of venue
D) an extended venire
Q3) Delaying a trial is known as a(n) ____.
A) change of venue
B) continuance
C) foil
D) blank lineup
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Chapter 19: Applying Social Psychology to the Environment
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Q1) The main distinction between the terms crowding and density is that crowding refers to ____, while density refers to ____.
A) concentration of people; concentration of any physical objects
B) a subjective feeling; a physical reality
C) a neutral or positively-experienced concentration of people; a negatively-experienced concentration of people
D) situations over which people perceive that they have control; situations over which people do NOT perceive that they have control
Q2) People are less likely to engage in the commons dilemma when ____.
A) they communicate with others
B) others are behaving badly
C) they are anonymous
D) they are highly self-interested
Q3) A high-context culture is ____ than a low-context culture.
A) more territorial
B) less territorial
C) less tied to nature
D) more concerned about security
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