Social Psychology 2 Set 3
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This set of Social Psychology 2 Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Social Psychology 2 Set 3
Q1 | In leadership trait theory what is a trait?
- a list of the things that make leaders different to everyone else
- a list of the key things that a leader should do to be great
- the list of key behaviours a leader exhibits
- a list of key characteristics that makes a leader great
Q2 | For the Ohio State leadership studies the perfect leader:
- combines a focus on the task and the employee
- focuses on the task and getting things done
- inspires workers to aim higher and achieve more
- is concerned about the small details and how to increase productivity
Q3 | Contingency theory is based on the assumption that the ideal leader:
- shapes their leadership style depending on the situation
- provides clear instructions to the followers so that they know what they are doing
- knows what their strengths are and makes the most out of them
- spends time with their followers and therefore listens and responds to their needs
Q4 | A transactional leader is one who:
- inspires people and has strong interactions with them
- does deals with people in order to get them to do things the leader wants
- is the ideal form of leadership
- works for long-term goals of the organization
Q5 | What is a transformational leader?
- someone who is involved in organizational change
- a leader, like taylor, who provided new ways of carrying out management
- a leader who inspires the workers to new levels by offering them a vision of a better future
- leader who tries to transform their staff by giving them rewards for what they do
Q6 | What is post-heroic leadership theory?
- a theory which states that there is too much emphasis on leaders and more attention should be placed on followers
- a theory looking beyond current leadership styles to new, more creative ways of leading
- a theory which tries to create new organizations which do not need leaders
- a theory which tries to find the ideal form of leadership
Q7 | What is the social construction of leadership?
- the view that all leadership is social and what matters is how leaders interact with others
- leadership is a made up idea that therefore we should pay more attention to more significant aspects of the organization
- what counts as good leadership is a construction of the perceptions of the followers
- leadership is something that the leader constructs as they meet with others
Q8 | What is the 'glass ceiling'?
- a barrier which prevents women from passing through to more senior positions in the company
- an old fashioned idea that suggests that women should not make it to the boardroom in organizations
- the effect where men can pass by women in women dominated professions
- an approach which seeks to get more women in senior positions in organizations
Q9 | Jimmy is very quiet at school, but later that night at a party Jimmy gets 'crazy' and starts to cut the rug on the dance floor. Jimmy's classmates are stunned at this displayedbehavior. Jimmy is experiencing:
- group polarization
- the power of ssri\s
- deindividuation
- groupthink
Q10 | _____________ set up an experiment, known as the Stanford Prison experiment, where people plaed the role of a prison guard. The goal was to observe if this authority positionwould cause them to act differently.
- stanley milgram
- philip zimbardo
- soloman ache
- muzafer sherif
Q11 | Social Facilitation occurs:
- to the tendency for people to do less in a group setting
- to the tendency to keep personal opinions to themselves for fear of upsetting the group
- when the presence of other people watching improves a person’s performance
- when the presence of other people watching hinders a person\s performance
Q12 | Groupthink is defined as:
- when an attitude becomes stronger in group presence
- thinking that revolves around keeping harmony within a group through not disagreeing with group opinion
- the tendency to do less in a group situation
- improved performance when people are watching
Q13 | In Stanley Migram's experiment on the role of obedience, the ____________ was theperson who worked with Milgram and played the part of an authority figure.
- teacher
- learner
- experimenter
- doctor
Q14 | According to Soloman Ache, in his experiment on conformity ____% of the subjectsgave the wrong answer because the group unanimously also gave the wrong answer.
- 76
- 48
- 32
- 89
Q15 | In Stanley Milgram's experiment on the role of obedience, the ___________ was the subject who was being observed and did not know what the experiment was about orwhat was being studied.
- learner
- experimenter
- teacher
- milgram
Q16 | ____________________ is a change in behavior or belief as a result of group pressure.
- cohesiveness
- conformity
- compliance
- obedience
Q17 | Publicly acting in accord with social pressure while privately disagreeing is called
- acceptance
- compliance
- reactance
- interaction
Q18 | Both acting and believing in accord with social pressure is called
- acceptance
- reactance
- compliance
- interaction
Q19 | An important difference between Asch's experiment in which participants judged thelength of lines and Sherif's experiment in which participants judged the movement of light was that
- asch\s participants were older than were sherif\s
- there was an obviously correct answer in judging the length of lines but that was not so in judging the movement of light
- asch\s participants made their judgments privately whereas sherif\s participants made their judgments publicly
- asch\s participants were all male whereas sherif\s participants were both male
Q20 | In Asch's study of perceptual judgment involving the length of lines, naive participantsconformed __________________ of the time to the false judgments of the confederates.
- 10 percent
- 37 percent
- 68 percent
- 92 percent
Q21 | Participants' tendencies to obey the experimenter's commands to shock a victim werehighest when the experimenter was ___________ and the victim was ___________.
- close; distant
- close; close
- distant; distant
- distant; close
Q22 | To believe that Asch's compliant participants were particularly spineless people is to
- forget that behavior shapes belief
- overlook other personality characteristics that determine conformity
- make the fundamental attribution error
- ignore how the status of the experimenter shapes behavior
Q23 | How social pressure may lead us to perform immoral acts is best illustrated by studies of
- psychological reactance
- spontaneous self-concept
- obedience to authority
- informational influence
Q24 | The effect of group size on conformity has been explained by _____________ theory.
- cognitive dissonance
- social norm
- psychological reactance
- social impact
Q25 | Milgram reported that a participant's tendency to obey the experimenter decreaseddramatically
- when two other participants defied the experimenter
- when the participant could not hear the responses of the learner
- when the experimenter was a female
- when the experimenter was younger than the participant