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This set of Social Psychology 2 Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Social Psychology 2 Set 8

Q1 | According to the text, geographical nearness is
  • Closeness
  • Nearness
  • Proximity
  • Immediacy
Q2 | The tendency for novel stimuli to be liked more after the rater has repeatedly exposed to them is
  • The novel stimuli effect
  • The mere-exposure effect
  • The repeated exposure effect
  • The nonsense effect
Q3 | Which of the following is supported by research on social attraction?
  • Distance makes the heart fonder.
  • Beauty and brains are equal
  • Opposites
  • Familiarity produces fondness
Q4 | The tendency for men and women to choose as partners those who are similar in attractivenessand other traits is
  • The partner effect
  • The attractiveness effect
  • Similarity phenomenon
  • Matching phenomenon
Q5 | The presumption that physically attractive people possess other socially desirable traits is the
  • Attractiveness effect
  • Physical-attractiveness stereotype
  • Reciprocity effect
  • Matching phenomenon
Q6 | Opposites attract is an aspect of the
  • Matching phenomenon
  • Reward theory of attraction
  • Complementary hypothesis
  • The ingratiation effect
Q7 | A motive to increase another’s welfare without conscious regard for one’s self-interests is
  • Empathy
  • Reciprocity
  • Altruism
  • Personality trait
Q8 | The theory that human interactions are transactions that aim to maximize one’s rewards is
  • Social-exchange theory
  • Social-interaction theory
  • Reciprocity theory
  • Social norms theory
Q9 | A motive to increase one’s own welfare is
  • The illusion of control effect
  • Achievement motivation
  • Self-efficacy
  • Egoism
Q10 | An expectation that people will help those who have helped them is
  • Social norm
  • Social-responsibility norm
  • Reciprocity norm
  • Restitution norm
Q11 | An expectation that people will help those dependent upon them is
  • Social-responsibility norm
  • Reciprocity norm
  • Dependent norm
  • Social norm
Q12 | The idea that evolution has selected altruism toward one’s close relatives to enhance thesurvival of mutually shared genes is
  • Evolutionary altruism
  • Kin selection
  • The close relatives effect
  • The mutually shared genes effect
Q13 | The finding that a person is less likely to help when there are other people around is
  • The bystander effect
  • The reciprocity effect
  • The situational effect
  • The negative empathy
Q14 | Which of the following moods is most likely to motivate altruism?
  • Depression
  • Grief
  • Guilt
  • Anger.
Q15 | According to the text, people are likely to help when
  • Other people are around
  • They feel happy
  • They are depressed
  • They are well educated
Q16 | From an evolutionary perspective it would be most difficult to explain why
  • Someone risked his life to help a stranger
  • Someone paid his daughter’s hospital bill
  • Someone risked his life to help his father.
  • Someone risked his life to help his daughter
Q17 | Attribution theory concerns our tendency to explain our behavior and that of others
  • By external causes rather than internal causes
  • By inferring causes on the basis of internal or external factors
  • By internal rather than external causes
  • Based on personality factors.
Q18 | When making the “attribution error,” we tend to overestimate the importance of __________in judging the behavior of others.
  • Personal factors
  • Situational factors
  • Intelligence
  • Motivation