Social Psychology, 321:01, Spring, 2007
Professor Lee Jussim
Chapter 13 Practice Questions
1) Which of the following is NOT one of the steps in
Osgood’s (1980) GRIT strategy?
A. Build up first-strike capability to negotiate from
a position of strength.
B. Announce your conciliatory intent.
C. Carry out several verifiable conciliatory acts.
D. Maintain retaliatory capability.
Answer, page 502
2) Conflict is defined as
A. perceived incompatibility of actions or goals.
B. dissatisfaction with relationship outcomes.
C. hostility that results from frustrating
interaction.
D. competition for mutually exclusive goals.
Answer, page 467
3) Christina and Massimo have been saving money since
they got married. Now Massimo wants to buy a new car, but Christina
wants to continue saving for a new house. Massimo and Christina
A. are experiencing conflict.
B. are experiencing dissonance.
C. have mirror-image perceptions.
D. are developing superordinate goals.
Answer page 467
4) Pursuing one’s self-interest to the collective
detriment of one’s community or society is the central pattern in
A. mirror-image perception.
B. the jigsaw problem.
C. perceived injustice.
D. a social dilemma.
Answer, page 468
5) When individuals consume more than their share,
and the cost of doing so is dispersed among all, the result is called
A. greed.
B. environmental devastation.
C. overconsumption.
D. the tragedy of the commons.
Answer, page 470
6) Sato (1987) gave Japanese students opportunities
to harvest trees in a simulated forest for money. When the students
equally shared the costs of planting the forest, the result was that
A. most of the trees were left to grow too tall for
harvesting because the students bickered about the criterion to be used
in sharing profits.
B. most of the trees were harvested before they had
grown to the most profitable size.
C. none of the trees were harvested because the
collectivist students did not want to be the first to ask for his or
her share.
D. students made maximum profit not only for
themselves individually but for the group.
Answer, page 471
7) Which of the following is NOT a feature shared by
both the Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Commons Dilemma?
A. One party’s wins necessarily equals the other
party’s losses.
B. Participants tend to commit the fundamental
attribution error.
C. Participants’ motives change in the course of the
entrapment.
D. Both are non-zero-sum games.
Answer, page 471
8) In Sherif’s research, the camper groups became
hostile towards each other when
A. they learned of the other group’s existence.
B. the two groups first met.
C. when competition between the groups was introduced.
D. when competition between the groups ended.
Answer, page 475
9) The relationship between the size of a commons and
a person’s feeling of responsibility for it is
A. positive.
B. negative.
C. neutral.
D. curvilinear.
Answer, page 472
10) Research on laboratory
dilemmas reveals that cooperation is facilitated if
A. one person is 100% cooperative.
B. the opponents can communicate with one another.
C. the game is changed into a zero-sum game.
D. the size of the payoffs is increased.
Answer, page 473
11) Which of the following is cited in the text as an
example of changing payoffs to resolve social dilemmas?
A. allowing carpoolers to drive in the faster,
freeway lane
B. requiring carpool cars and vans to park in
special, larger parking lots farther away from the office building
C. lowering the price of gasoline well below $1 per
gallon
D. raising the price of gasoline well above $5 per
gallon
Answer, page 474
12) According to research, it
seems that just knowing about the dire consequences of noncooperation
in a social dilemma
A. is sufficient to convince people to behave
cooperatively.
B. leads to greater mistrust of others.
C. tends to foster greater self-interest and
competition.
D. has little real effect on people’s behavior.
Answer, page 474
13) Which one of the following is NOT one of the
seeds of misperception according to your text?
A. the self-serving bias
B. reduced competition
C. the fundamental attribution error
D. groupthink
Answer, page 477
14) The misperceptions of those who are in conflict
with each other, such as two nations who regard each other with
suspicion and hostility, are usually
A. nonreciprocal.
B. unilateral.
C. mutual.
D. inequitable.
Answer, page 478
15) The Republic of Fredonia
believes its long-time enemy, the kingdom of Franistan, is aggressive,
greedy, and impulsive. On the other hand, Franistan believes Fredonia
is hostile, selfish, and unpredictable. This is an example of
A. an inequitable relationship.
B. a zero-sum relationship.
C. mirror-image perceptions.
D. reciprocal illusions.
Answer, page 478
16) When two sides have clashing
perceptions, at least one of them is misperceiving the other, and when
that is the case, according to Bronfenbrenner (1960), “It is
characteristic of such images that they are _______.”
A. self-defeating
B. self-confirming
C. self-handicapping
D. self-monitoring
Answer, page 478
17) John believes that he is hardworking and that his
wife Rachel is lazy. Rachel believes that she is hardworking and that
John is lazy. This is an example of
A. an inequitable relationship.
B. mirror-image perception.
C. a superordinate goal.
D. a social trap.
Answer, page 478
18) Approval of President Bush’s performance after
September 11th, 2001
A. increased.
B. decreased.
C. stabilized.
D. was unaffected.
Answer, page 488
19) A goal that overrides people’s differences from
one another is called a(n)
A. superior goal.
B. superordinate goal.
C. ingroup goal.
D. independent goal.
Answer, page 491
20) Aronson’s jigsaw technique
involved having elementary school children
A. study in small, racially mixed teams and then
compete with other teams in a class tournament.
B. form academically and racially diverse groups with
each member of the group becoming an expert in one area.
C. role-play being members of another race for
two-week periods.
D. take turns telling each other about their family
backgrounds in small-group discussions.
Answer, page 493