1 One reason people assume behavior is rational is because they:

Chapter 1

1 One reason people assume behavior is rational is because they:

(A) Do not like emotions (B) Need to understand their world (C) Are correct, all behavior is rational (D) Have little imagination

Answer: (B) Need to understand their world

• Personality is

(A) Stable and resistant to chagne (B) Rarely imporatnt in politics (C) Not unique (D) Conciously understood by each person

Answer: (A) Stable and resistant to chagne

• Social Identify

(A) Refers to out-groups (B) Is not related to membership in political groups (C) Has nothing to do with race (D) Derives from membership in social groups

Answer: (D) Derives from membership in social groups

• Group demands of loyalty and obedience

(A) Are always resisted when they push a person to violate personal values (B) Only affect people in non-individualistic societies (C) Can make a person violate his or her personal values (D) Are not particularly important in affecting political behavior

Answer: (C) Can make a person violate his or her personal values

5 Cognitive processes:

(A) Are only used by smart people (B) Facilitate informaiton processing (C) Are only important in complex situations (D) Are little understood

Answer: (B) Facilitate informaiton processing

• Attitudes are

(A) Very resistant to change (B) Easily accessible to the perceiver (Introduction to Political Psychology, 3e Martha Cottam, Elena Mastors, Thomas Preston, Beth Dietz) (Test Bank all Chapters) 1 / 4

(C) Not a particularly imporant focus of study in political psychology (D) Difficult to measure

Answer: (B) Easily accessible to the perceiver

• Values are

(A) Deeply held beliefs about what is right and wrong (B) Another term for emotions (C) Attitudes that change easily (D) Rarely important in politics

Answer: (A) Deeply held beliefs about what is right and wrong

• The core of the Political Being is

(A) Personality (B) Emotions (C) Values (D) The Heart

Answer: (A) Personality

• For data, psycoanalytic studies of political leaders tend to use

(A) Experiments (B) Psychobiographies (C) Surveys (D) Brain scans

Answer: (B) Psychobiographies

10 Political psychology began with the study of

(A) Personality and politics (B) The cognitive revolution (C) The study of voting behavior (D) The study of war

Answer: (A) Personality and politics

11 A variable is:

(A) The same thing as a hypothesis (B) A measurement instrument (C) Something that is thought to influence or be influenced by something else (D) Something that is not observable

Answer: (C) Something that is thought to influence or be influenced by something else

12 The second step in the scientific method is: 2 / 4

(A) Formulating hypotheses (B) Making observations (C) Measuring variables (D) Developing a theory

Answer: (A) Formulating hypotheses

13 Political psychology is useful:

(A) For explaining a wide variety of political behaviors (B) Only for understading the impact of leaders' personalities (C) Only for understanding why people vote the way they do (D) Only for understading infromation processing

Answer: (A) For explaining a wide variety of political behaviors

14 The first step in the scientific method involves:

(A) Testing hypotheses (B) Making observations (C) Falsification (D) Developing a theory

Answer: (B) Making observations

15 Generally, people are:

(A) Perfect information processors (B) Rational when processing information (C) Illogical information processors (D) Imperfect information processors

Answer: (D) Imperfect information processors

16 One reason people assume behavior is rational is because they:

Answer:

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Chapter 2

• In-groups are

(A) Groups one belongs to (B) Groups one does not belong to (C) Groups in power (D) The hippest groups

Answer: (A) Groups one belongs to

• Which of the following is NOT a Big Five personality trait dimension?

(A) Defense mechanisms (B) Neuroticism (C) Extraversion (D) Agreeableness

Answer: (A) Defense mechanisms

• Motives are those aspects of a personality concerned with

(A) Hidden intentions (B) Unconcious desires (C) Prejudices (D) Goals and goal - directed actions

Answer: (D) Goals and goal - directed actions

4 The Operational Code links:

(A) Personality traits with each other (B) Enjoyment of leadership with personality traits (C) Motives with beliefs (D) Affect and personailty

Answer: (C) Motives with beliefs

5 Denial as a cognitive defense mechanism involves:

(A) Denying the id (B) Denying reality (C) Denying random events (D) Denying irrationality

Answer: (B) Denying reality

6 Factor analysis identifies:

(A) Which traqits cluster together (B) Which traits were left out of the study

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