69 test bank questions and their answers from Myers Social Psychology:

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69 test bank questions and their answers from Myers' "Social Psychology": Multiple Choice Questions

• What is the main focus of social psychology?
• Individual behavior
• Group dynamics
• How individuals influence and are influenced by others
• Cognitive processes

- Answer: C

• Which term describes the tendency to attribute others' behavior to their

character while attributing our own behavior to situational factors?

• Self-serving bias
• Fundamental attribution error
• Actor-observer bias
• Social comparison

- Answer: B

• What is cognitive dissonance?
• A state of mental discomfort arising from conflicting beliefs or

behaviors

• The tendency to conform to group pressure
• The perception of a shared reality
• The process of persuasion

- Answer: A

• Which concept explains why individuals may conform to a group's

behavior?

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