Indoctrination & Inoculation The Mere Presence of Others
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1. Exposing people to weak attacks on their attitudes that stimulate thinking in support of the initial
attitude is known as
attitude inoculation.
the boomerang effect.
psychological reactance.
central route persuasion.
2. A psychology of religion that tells us why a theist believes in God & an atheist disbelieves
reveals nothing about
the source of the beliefs.
the accuracy of the beliefs.
the functions of the beliefs.
how the beliefs could be changed.
3. Cults like the Unification Church & Jim Joness Peoples Temple typically recruit & retain
members by exploiting
the sleeper effect.
the recency effect.
attitude inoculation.
the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.
4. Successful cults nearly always have
a lot of money.
a strong work ethic.
a charismatic leader.
an inordinate belief in the supernatural.
5. People most vulnerable to cults are most often
middle class.
under age 25.
facing a personal crisis.
All of these make them vulnerable.
6. The success of cults can be explained by their effective use of
persuasion principles.
isolating group members.
escalating behavioral commitments.
All of these contribute to the success of cults.
7. An analysis of cult indoctrination illustrates
the immorality of cults.
the blurry line between education & indoctrination.
the inherent destructiveness of persuasion tactics.
the average persons invulnerability to indoctrination.
8. Research on attitude inoculation suggests that religious educators are wise to avoid
the two-step flow of communication.
using charismatic leaders to attract new converts.
forewarning followers that outsiders will question their beliefs.
creating a germ-free ideological environment in their churches & schools
9. Inoculation research suggests that
that inoculation is ineffective.
children are helpless victims of television advertising.
ineffective persuasion can inoculate people against later persuasive appeals.
the best way to inoculate attitudes is to mount an all-out strong attack on the attitude.
10. Inoculation research indicates that one can build up resistance to persuasion by
listening only to logical appeals.
listening only to emotional appeals.
seeking social support for ones beliefs.
being an active listener & a critical thinker.
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11. A co-actor is someone who
imitates you.
helps & cooperates with you.
competes with you on a single task.
does the same task at the same time as you.
12. Who among the following would be considered coactors?
10 people doing pushups in an exercise class
2 people playing monopoly against each other
20 competitors running in a 100 yard dash
four friends chatting before class starts
13. The mere presence of others has been found to boost peoples performance when
they are
completing a complex maze.
memorizing nonsense syllables.
crossing out designated letters on printed pages.
performing complex multiplication problems.
14. The strengthening of dominant responses in the persence of other people is
called the
social-facilitation effect.
co-actor influence phenomenon.
evaluation apprehension effect.
Yerkes-Dodson Law.
15. The presence of others is likely to lead to better performance in _____________
& to worse performance in ______________.
playing golf; raking leaves
solving a puzzle; sweeping a sidewalk
raking leaves; solving complex problems
solving complex problems; solving a puzzle
16. The primary effect of a crowd is that it
enhances social responsibility.
enhances performance.
enhances arousal.
hurts performance.
17. Social psychologists refer to our concern for how others are evaluating us as
social fear.
co-actor anxiety.
evaluation phobia.
evaluation apprehension.
18. Sanders & his colleagues have suggested that we are aroused in the presence
of others, not only because of evaluation apprehension, but also because we
get distracted.
need to belong.
become deindividuated.
engage in social comparison.
19. Research on social facilitation suggests that the design of new office buildings
in which private offices are replaced with large, open areas may
invade privacy & disrupt worker morale.
disrupt creative thinking on complex tasks.
disrupt performance of routine clerical tasks.
improve communication & build employee morale.
20. Nearly 300 studies confirm that social arousal _______ performance on easy tasks & _______ performance
on difficult tasks.
boosts; hurts
hurts; boosts
hurts; facilitates
facilitates; boosts
21. It has been found that long-distance runners have faster running times when they run with another person than
when they run by themselves. This shows the effects of
social masking.
social conformity.
social facilitation.
social conformity.
22. Kim has found that she is able to study longer when she is in a room with other people than when she is alone.
This shows the effects of
social conformity.
social obedience.
social facilitation.
social role-playing.
23. It has been proposed that in humans, the presence of others may increase arousal as a result of:
evaluation anxiety.
self-consciousness.
diffusion of responsibility.
both a. & b.
24. If you rearrange the letters LNGEDNA you have the name of a/an
city.
ocean.
person.
country.
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Social Psychology
Robert C. Gates