Psychology Multiple Choice Questions Set

1.
After failing his
psychology test, Joe ranted, “If only I had answered that one question
differently. I would have passed the test.” This type of reasoning is called:
Answer

thought suppression.

overconfidence reasoning.

distinctiveness information.

counterfactual thinking.

4
points
Question 2
1.

All of the following are among the six
universally recognized facial expressions reported by Ekman EXCEPT:
Answer

guilt.

anger.

fear.

sadness.

4 points
Question 3
1.

Oreos advertises that it is America’s most
popular cookie. Kelley’s attribution theory suggests that this advertising
tries to get people to make an “entity attribution” based on the high
popularity of Oreos by focusing on _________ information.
Answer

noncommon

consistency

consensus

distinctiveness

4 points
Question 4
1.

Research on the health consequences of thought
suppression suggests that spending effort suppressing thoughts is _________ to
our physical health and _________ to our psychological health.
Answer

beneficial; detrimental

detrimental; detrimental

beneficial; beneficial

detrimental; beneficial

4 points
Question 5
1.

When people express more than one emotion at
the same time so that one part of the face registers one emotion while another
part of the face registers a different emotion. This is known as a (n) ______.
Answer

deception

emblem

affect blend

attribution

4 points
Question 6
1.

Contemporary researchers have collected
evidence that naturalist Charles Darwin (1872) was correct when he asserted
that facial expressions are:
Answer

species-specific.

gender-specific.

feeling-specific.

culture-specific.

4 points
Question 7
1.

_________ refers to the way people select,
interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions
about themselves and others.
Answer

Social cognition

Decision rules

Counterfactual thinking

Schemas

4 points
Question 8
1.

The study of how we form impressions of and
make inferences about other people is called:
Answer

gender-specific.

social perception.

decoding.

perceptual salience.

4 points
Question 9
1.

Your textbook cites the example of the Amadou
Diallo case as an example of automatic processing. How does this case show how
automatic processing can lead to errors?
Answer

The police shot Diallo as he was pulling a wallet from
his pocket because they thought he pulled a gun.

Diallo mistook the American police for the police of his
native West Africa and spoke to them in his native tongue.

Diallo shot the police then was killed by them because he
believed they would kill him.

The police shot Diallo as he was pulling a weapon from his
pocket but killed him unnecessarily.

4 points
Question 10
1.

With regard to the use of base rate
information, the evidence suggests that:
Answer

people are very astute at using base rate information.

people totally disregard base rate information and rely only
on the similarity of information to a category.

people focus too much on individual characteristics and
insufficiently on base rates.

people focus equally on individual characteristics and base
rate information.