Multiple-choice exam about psychology, behaviour and personality | PSYCH 360, Exams of History of Psychology

Download Multiple-choice exam about psychology, behaviour and personality | PSYCH 360 and more Exams History of Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! Sample test questions for Psych 360, Chapters 1-3 The purpose of this test is to give you experience completing multiple choice questions on the course material. It does NOT cover all of the material for the exam. For information on what to study for the exam, see the study guide on the course website. First, try to answer the following questions. Then, score your answers using the answer key (in a separate file). Chapter 1 1. Sheila notices that whenever her mother-in-law is around, her husband begins to speak and act in more formal, socially desirable ways. Sheila’s observation would be interesting to a _____, who studies how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are affected by others. A. environmental psychologist B. clinical psychologist C. social psychologist D. personality psychologist 2. When individuals and groups affect the behavior of others, _____ has occurred. A. persuasion B. social influence C. cognitive dissonance D. schematic behavior 3. Individuals differ in the extent to which they enjoy and participate in effortful cognitive activities or, as personality psychologists call it, the need for the cognition. The need for cognition is an example of ______ in people’s personalities. A. individual differences B. social differences C. cognitive differences D. none of the above 4. Maria, a Puerto Rican woman, notices that the closer to the front of the classroom she sits, the more she likes the professor of that class. Which type of psychologist be most likely to examine whether physical distance affects liking? A. clinical B. cross-cultural C. social D. personality 5. You attend a play in which a fellow student plays the role of a mayor in a small town. After the performance, you encourage the student to run for a position on your school’s student government. Your assumption that this student would be a good leader based on his role in a play reflects the A. halo effect B. assumed-similarity bias C. fundamental attribution error D. self-serving bias Chapter 2 6. Which of the following is not a component of the scientific method? A. Identifying important questions to study B. Developing a theory to explain some phenomenon C. Conducting research to support or refute explanations of phenomena D. Interviewing people you know to find out what they think about a topic 7. A marketing team failed to submit a proposal before the deadline expired. Members later said that they thought someone else on the team was going to submit the proposal, so no individual made sure the proposal was completed. This team may have experienced A. the bystander effect. B. free-riding. C. misattribution hypothesis. D. diffusion of responsibility. 8. From a scientific point of view, one of the key features of a hypothesis is that it is A. consistent with commonsense explanations. B. consistent with current viewpoints in psychology. C. testable with scientific methods. D. loosely connected to a theory. 9. A psychologist believes that people like others who are attractive. She shows men a variety of pictures of women who vary in their physical attractiveness. She records the amount of time the men spend looking at each picture as a measure of how much the men like the women in each picture. Which of the following statements is true? A. The psychologist is using observational methods to study her hypothesis. B. The psychologist has not developed a testable hypothesis. C. Liking is operationalized as the amount of time spent looking at each picture. D. A negative correlation is predicted between physical attractiveness and liking. 10. Dr. Armstrong finds that the correlation between a person’s self-esteem and the amount of food she eats is –.90. This correlation coefficient indicates a _____ association between self- esteem and eating behavior.