Interpersonal Relations
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Interpersonal Relations explores the dynamics of human interaction within personal, social, and professional contexts. The course examines theories and practical skills related to communication, conflict resolution, self-disclosure, empathy, and group dynamics. Students will analyze factors that influence relationships, such as culture, perception, emotion, and nonverbal cues, and develop strategies for building healthy, supportive, and effective connections. Through discussion, case studies, and experiential activities, students will gain insight into their own interpersonal styles and enhance their ability to interact positively and ethically with others.
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Social Psychology 11th Edition by David Myers
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Chapter 1: Introducing Social Psychology
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Q1) To get information from a survey that you can generalize to the whole country,you will need to get information from _____ people.
A)150
B)1,200
C)5,000
D)10,000
Answer: B
Q2) An important factor in survey research is how closely the sample reflects the population under study.This is referred to as sample
A)fairness.
B)strategy.
C)size.
D)representativeness.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Self in a Social World
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Q1) Giving priority to one's own goals over group goals,and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications is the definition of A)high self-esteem.
B)low self-esteem.
C)individuality.
D)individualism.
Answer: D
Q2) Cathy has forgotten to do her laundry this week.Since she is running late for class she throws on the only clean shirt she has,a "New Kids on the Block" T-shirt leftover from 1988.As she wanders around campus she is convinced that everyone is staring at her.Cathy is experiencing
A)the spotlight effect.
B)the illusion of transparency.
C)the self-reference effect.
D)a comparative self.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Social Beliefs and Judgments
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Q1) Once during a hospital stay,you observed a man and a woman (both in health professional attire)talking.You assumed that the man was a physician and that the woman was a nurse.Later,you found out the opposite was true.What type of heuristic did you use during your initial reaction to the two individuals?
A)availability heuristic
B)representativeness heuristic
C)vividness heuristic
D)matching heuristic
Answer: B
Q2) Researchers had male students speak by telephone with women they thought were either attractive or unattractive.When judges later analyzed the women's comments,they found that the
A)women thought to be attractive spoke more warmly than the other women.
B)women thought to be unattractive tried harder to be likable and stimulated better conversation.
C)women thought to be attractive spoke in a more aloof and superior manner.
D)women thought to be unattractive spoke more slowly and deliberately.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Behavior and Attitudes
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Q1) Which theory best explains why 40 percent of smokers in the U.S.judge smoking as not very harmful?
A)self-presentation
B)cognitive dissonance
C)insufficient justification
D)self-perception
Q2) If you are asked to participate in a research study without knowing the start time,you are _______ to participate than if you were aware that the study began at 7 am.
A)less likely
B)more likely
C)just as likely
D)much less likely
Q3) The Implicit Association Test (IAT)
A)measures conscious attitudes.
B)measures unconscious attitudes.
C)measures both conscious and unconscious attitudes.
D)measures our behaviors.
Q4) How do evil acts influence evil attitudes? Provide research examples to support your answer.
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Chapter 5: Genes,culture,and Gender
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Q1) Research on the Big Five personality traits indicates that A)culture determines these traits.
B)differences among these traits in different countries are quite small.
C)national stereotypes about these traits are valid.
D)there are no cultural differences among these traits.
Q2) Pratto and colleagues (1997)reported that _______ tend to gravitate toward jobs that enhance inequalities,such as a prosecuting attorney.
A)the young
B)the elderly
C)men
D)women
Q3) How would evolutionary psychology explain Brown's universal norm that forms of address communicate social status and that advances in intimacy are initiated by the higher-status person?
Q4) Evolutionary psychology has been criticized for A)hindsight biases.
B)unethical treatment of human participants.
C)the use of unrepresentative samples.
D)functional fixedness.
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Chapter 6: Conformity and Obedience
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Q1) Bill conforms because he fears that he will be rejected by others in the group if he doesn't.His conformity results from
A)normative influence.
B)informational influence.
C)obedience
D)interpersonal influence.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of the verbal prods used in Milgram's studies to keep participants going?
A)Please continue.
B)The experiment requires that you continue.
C)You have no other choice;you must go on.
D)If you do not continue,you will need to take the "learner's" place.
Q3) When Milgram asked 100 psychiatrists,college students,and middle-class adults to predict the results of his experiment,the respondents said that they thought _______ would _______.
A)they themselves;never begin to administer the shocks
B)they themselves;disobey by about 135 volts
C)other people;disobey by about 210 volts
D)other people;would go all the way to 450 volts
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Chapter 7: Persuasion
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Q1) Credible communicators have the best success in persuading.These are people that do all of the following EXCEPT
A)speak unhesitatingly.
B)look listeners in the eye.
C)use appropriate taste and personal values.
D)argue with their own self-interest.
Q2) Central route processing often _____ explicit attitudes.
A)has no effect on
B)swiftly changes
C)slowly changes
D)never changes
Q3) Which route to persuasion is most likely to create long-lasting attitudes and behavioral changes?
A)peripheral
B)central
C)logical
D)image
Q4) Describe a familiar television commercial and analyze the elements of persuasion that it uses.Does it promote and/or assume central or peripheral route processing?
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Chapter 8: Group Influence
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Q1) Describe how normative and informational influence processes can help us understand group polarization.
Q2) The best way to improve individual performance by a group is to
A)evaluate the group output.
B)evaluate each person individually.
C)average the production of the group members.
D)There is no way to do this.
Q3) Which two symptoms of groupthink lead group members to overestimate their group's right and might?
A)rationalization and conformity pressure
B)rationalization and a stereotyped view of the opponent
C)an illusion of invulnerability and self-censorship
D)an illusion of invulnerability and an unquestioned belief in the group's morality
Q4) People who are made self-aware by acting in front of a mirror or TV camera have been found to
A)exhibit increased self-confidence.
B)behave more consistently with their attitudes.
C)be less thoughtful in analyzing complex social issues.
D)be more vulnerable to persuasive appeals that run counter to social norms.
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Chapter 9: Prejudice: Disliking Others
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Q1) Taylor and Fiske (1978)found that a Black in an otherwise White group,a man in an otherwise female group,or a woman in an otherwise male group seem
A)less prominent than the others in the group.
B)less influential.
C)to be uninvolved in the group.
D)more prominent and influential.
Q2) Jay believes that all Muslims are violent extremists.This is A)discrimination.
B)a stereotype.
C)a behavioral tendency.
D)an example of groupthink.
Q3) Cultural attitudes,including prejudice,are embodied and reinforced in A)schools.
B)government.
C)the media.
D)All of the above
Q4) Review the research on how distinctiveness can breed stereotypes.
Q5) How are discriminations and the self-fulfilling prophecy concept related?
Q6) Summarize the research on racial attitudes in the U.S.from the 1940s to current times.
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Chapter 10: Aggression: Hurting Others
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Q1) Frustration is noted to arise from
A)a mismatch between achievements and rewards.
B)the gap between expectations and attainments.
C)the deprivation of elements essential to survival.
D)learned helplessness and hopelessness.
Q2) Playing violent,over non-violent,video games has been linked to all of the following EXCEPT
A)increased arousal.
B)increased aggressive behaviors.
C)decreased prosocial behavior.
D)increased feelings of empathy.
Q3) A study of brain activity in the prefrontal cortex of murderers found
A)no differences between these men and normal controls.
B)less activity than normal.
C)spikes in activity level.
D)more activity than normal.
Q4) How does pornography encourage distorted perceptions of sexual reality?
Q5) Explain each of the five consistent effects that Anderson (2003)found to be associated with video games.
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Q6) What arguments would you present in favor of stricter gun control laws?
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Chapter 11: Attraction and Intimacy: Liking and Loving
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Q1) The tendency for one person's intimacy of self-disclosure to match that of a conversational partner is referred to as
A)the matching phenomenon.
B)disclosure reciprocity.
C)reciprocal exchange.
D)mutual self-revelation.
Q2) Attachments marked by possessiveness and jealousy are called
A)secure.
B)dismissive.
C)fearful.
D)insecure.
Q3) The motivation to bond with others in relationships that provide ongoing,positive interactions is called A)the need to belong. B)pragma.
C)mere exposure.
D)reward theory of attraction.
Q4) Explain how the two-factor theory accounts for passionate love.
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Q5) Summarize the research on physical attractiveness and attraction.
Q6) Compare and contrast secure,insecure,and avoidant attachment.
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Chapter 12: Helping
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Q1) According to the evolutionary theory,genetic selfishness predisposes us to helping based on A)reciprocity.
B)social responsibility.
C)social justice.
D)egoism.
Q2) Which of the following statements is NOT true? As the number of bystanders at an emergency increases,any given bystander is
A)less likely to notice the situation.
B)less likely to interpret it as an emergency.
C)less likely to assume responsibility.
D)less likely to walk away.
Q3) According to the text,the social responsibility norm gets selectively applied according to which one of the following principles?
A)Give but require repayment with interest.
B)Give people what they deserve.
C)Give away only what you will never use.
D)Do unto others as they have done unto you.
Q4) Define altruism and provide an example of it.
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Chapter 13: Conflict and Peacemaking
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Q1) Equity theory says that if you are in a relationship with someone who is contributing more and benefiting less than you are,you are likely to feel
A)exploited.
B)contented.
C)guilty.
D)irritable.
Q2) Gurin and her colleagues (2002)found that informal interactions enabled by ethnic diversity in college classrooms
A)increase perceptions of differences among ethnic groups.
B)tend to foster greater acceptance of differences among ethnic groups.
C)have little effect on perceptions of differences among ethnic groups.
D)tend to foster more negative perceptions of other ethnic groups.
Q3) Surveys of nearly 4,000 Europeans revealed that an important factor in determining whether attitudes toward a minority group will become more favorable is whether A)one has a friend who is a member of that minority group.
B)the minority group tends to be submissive.
C)the minority group has a history of significant accomplishment.
D)the language of the minority group can be easily mastereD.
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Chapter 14: Social Psychology in the Clinic
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Q1) The Type A behavior pattern is associated with A)success in coping with stress.
B)conflict with Type B individuals.
C)an increased risk of heart disease.
D)overall life satisfaction and coping.
Q2) Prediction is most accurate when
A)based on statistics alone.
B)based on clinical intuition alone.
C)based on a combination of statistics and clinical intuition.
D)based on clinical assessments.
Q3) Myers points out that hindsight can
A)lead you to feel overconfident.
B)lead you to judge yourself too harshly for not having foreseen outcomes.
C)lead to both overconfidence and the tendency to judge yourself too harshly.
D)be very helpful in developing hypotheses about personality traits.
Q4) Shy,anxious people tend to A)overpersonalize situations.
B)underestimate others' reactions.
C)not be self-conscious.
D)put themselves in social situations.
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Chapter 15: Social Psychology in Court
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Q1) Who among the following is likely to receive the most severe sentence for drunk driving?
A)Kim,a good looking real estate agent
B)Tim,an unattractive auto mechanic with long hair
C)Ken,a clean-cut businessman
D)Carol,an attractive single mother
Q2) Research suggests that jury deliberations can be influenced by all of the following processes EXCEPT
A)group polarization.
B)minority influence.
C)deindividuation.
D)informational influence.
Q3) Research indicates that eyewitnesses who remember trivial details of a crime scene
A)also tend to overestimate the degree of harm or damage done as a result of the crime.
B)also tend to be particularly suspicious of all unfamiliar faces.
C)are less likely to have paid attention to the culprit's face.
D)are more likely to have paid attention to the culprit's face.
Q4) Summarize the evidence regarding the persuasiveness of eyewitness testimony.
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Chapter 16: Social Psychology and the Sustainable Future
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Q1) Relative deprivation is frequently the result of
A)upward social comparison.
B)downward social comparison.
C)Parkinson's second law.
D)the adaptation-level phenomenon.
Q2) Define and provide an example of downward social comparison.
Q3) There is now strong evidence that significant global warming
A)is a marginal threat.
B)is not scientifically proven.
C)is occurring.
D)has not started yet.
Q4) What is NOT true in relationship to our climate?
A)Plant and animal species are migrating north.
B)Sea levels are rising due to melting ice.
C)There is a decrease in ocean temperatures.
D)The nine warmest years on record have occurred since 1998.
Q5) What does Myers say about whether or not rich people are happier?
Q6) Define and provide an example of the upward social comparison.
Q7) Describe the effects of global warming.
Q8) How can climate fluctuations be linked to war?
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