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- According to group polarization studies, after
Mary and Marie (who are strongly in favor of the
death penalty) discuss the issue with Lisa and Liza
(who are strongly opposed to the death penalty),
it is likely that
(A) all of them will be more strongly in favor of
the death penalty
(B) all of them will be more strongly opposed to
the death penalty
(C) Mary and Marie will be more strongly in
favor of the death penalty than before, and
Lisa and Liza will be more strongly opposed
to the death penalty than before
(D) Mary and Marie will be less strongly in favor
of the death penalty, and Lisa and Liza will be
less strongly opposed to the death penalty
(E) Mary and Marie will be opposed to the death
penalty, and Lisa and Liza will be in favor of
the death penalty
- The field of psychology that examines how the
behavior and subjective experiences of individuals
are influenced by other people is
(A) sociobiology
(B) sociology
(C) social psychology
(D) social anthropology
(E) psychopathology
- According to evolutionary psychologists, in
making a decision to help in life-or-death situa-
tions, most people will choose to help
(A) cousins sooner than siblings
(B) ill people rather than healthy people
(C) poor people rather than wealthy people
(D) close friends rather than close relatives
(E) sisters in their 20s rather than mothers in
their 50s
- When their waitress spills a drink and forgets to
bring their salads, James and Kim assume she is
a bad waitress, instead of entertaining the pos-
sibility that she may be having an off day. James
and Kim are most likely committing
(A) a fundamental attribution error
(B) peripheral route persuasion
(C) central route persuasion
(D) cognitive dissonance
(E) deindividuation
- The distinction between prejudice and discrimi-
nation is that prejudice is __ and
discrimination is __.
(A) found among groups; found among individuals
(B) unconscious; conscious
(C) a negative behavior; a negative attitude
(D) a negative attitude; a negative behavior
(E) a negative attitude; a positive behavior
- Solomon Asch’s well known experiment in
which subjects were asked to identify similar
lines, after confederates responded incorrectly,
supported the theory of
(A) social loafing
(B) conformity
(C) mimicry
(D) obedience
(E) social facilitation
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