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Ha ha, sample exam questions for my Soc. Psych final (I love this guy!)
1. People who think they wouldn’t have eaten bugs in the experiment because they are not the
kind of person who eats bugs are guilty of:
a. Cognitive dissonance
b. Fundamental attribution error
c. Self-Serving bias
d. Actor-Observer bias
e. What is it with social psychologists and bugs?
4. If you are telling someone about one of your scientific experiments, and they ask you which
variable you manipulated, then:
a. they are asking about your dependent variable.
b. they are asking whether you used random assignment.
c. they are asking about your independent variable.
d. they are asking about the results of the study.
e. they are TOTALLY coming on to you. Seriously, you know they are.
6. Hazel and Lola are on an airplane on their way to Rio de Janeiro when the airplane crashlands
into the jungle. Hazel is 100 pounds overweight and Lola is of average weight. What does
Schachter’s research on obesity predict?
a. While stranded in the jungle, with nothing to eat except disgusting worms, Hazel will eat
more worms than Lola.
b. With nothing to eat except disgusting worms, Lola will eat more worms than Hazel.
c. If Hazel and Lola stumble into a grove of Brazilian Pizza Trees, and they have nothing to eat
except delicious slices of pepperoni pizza (picked straight from the vine), then Lola will eat
more pizza than will Hazel.
d. Both (b) and (c).
e. Hazel will eat Lola.
1. People who think they wouldn’t have eaten bugs in the experiment because they are not the
kind of person who eats bugs are guilty of:
a. Cognitive dissonance
b. Fundamental attribution error
c. Self-Serving bias
d. Actor-Observer bias
e. What is it with social psychologists and bugs?
4. If you are telling someone about one of your scientific experiments, and they ask you which
variable you manipulated, then:
a. they are asking about your dependent variable.
b. they are asking whether you used random assignment.
c. they are asking about your independent variable.
d. they are asking about the results of the study.
e. they are TOTALLY coming on to you. Seriously, you know they are.
6. Hazel and Lola are on an airplane on their way to Rio de Janeiro when the airplane crashlands
into the jungle. Hazel is 100 pounds overweight and Lola is of average weight. What does
Schachter’s research on obesity predict?
a. While stranded in the jungle, with nothing to eat except disgusting worms, Hazel will eat
more worms than Lola.
b. With nothing to eat except disgusting worms, Lola will eat more worms than Hazel.
c. If Hazel and Lola stumble into a grove of Brazilian Pizza Trees, and they have nothing to eat
except delicious slices of pepperoni pizza (picked straight from the vine), then Lola will eat
more pizza than will Hazel.
d. Both (b) and (c).
e. Hazel will eat Lola.