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Test Bank for The Social Animal, 12e Elliot Aronson, Joshua Aronson (All Chapters Download link at the end of this file)
Chapter_01_Multiple Choice
1. Aronson defines social psychology as:
- how people learn to behave in accordance with society's rules
- the influences that people have on our beliefs and the behavior of others
- how societies and social groups work
- the study of roles and social norms
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Chapter 2
Page(s) 8
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering
DATE CREATED: 8/12/2019 10:53 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 8/12/2019 10:53 AM
2. In his first chapter, Aronson defines social psychology as the study of:
- human behavior and mental processes
- people and events
- social influence
- actions that are crazy
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Chapter 1
Page(s) 8
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering
DATE CREATED: 8/12/2019 10:53 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 8/12/2019 10:53 AM
- "The influences that people have upon our beliefs and behavior and of how we influence others" is the text's
definition of:
- dispositions
- the self-fulfilling prophecy
- the hindsight effect 1 / 2
- social psychology
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Chapter 1
Page(s) 8
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering
DATE CREATED: 8/12/2019 10:53 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 8/12/2019 10:53 AM
- Aronson states, "People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy." By this, he means that:
- situations can cause most normal people to behave in abnormal ways
- psychosis, at least from a social psychological point of view, does not exist
- people generally think of others in very much the same way they think of themselves
- human behavior can be explained by using the scientific method
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: Chapter 1
Page(s) 8
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understanding
DATE CREATED: 8/12/2019 10:53 AM
DATE MODIFIED: 8/12/2019 10:53 AM
- Once we know the outcome of an event, we have the sense that we knew all along that things would turn out
as they did. The term for this phenomenon is:
- the hindsight bias
- commonsense social psychology
- the self-fulfilling prophecy
- the "déjà vu" effect
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Chapter 1
Page(s) 9
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering DATE CREATED: 8/12/2019 10:53 AM
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