Multiple Choice Quizzes

Take the quiz test your understanding of the key concepts covered in the chapter. Try testing yourself before you read the chapter to see where your strengths and weaknesses are, then test yourself again once you’ve read the chapter to see how well you’ve understood. 

1. Social categorization exaggerates:

  1. Within-category differences
  2. Between-category differences
  3. Between-category similarities
  4. Both A and C

Answer:

b. Between-category differences

2. What defines a person’s social identity?

  1. The individual
  2. Society
  3. The current social context
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

3. Does discriminating against an outgroup member lead to elevated self-esteem?

  1. Yes, it elevates both trait and state self-esteem
  2. Yes, but only trait self-esteem
  3. Yes, but only state self-esteem
  4. No

Answer:

c. Yes, but only state self-esteem

4. What determines which social category will be salient in a given social context?

  1. Metacontrast ratio
  2. Normative fit
  3. Optimal distinctiveness
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

5. When is ingroup favoritism especially likely to occur?

  1. On dimensions favoring the ingroup
  2. Under conflict
  3. During periods of social breakdown
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

6. When there is conflict between two groups, which group is seen as more homogenous?

  1. Ingroup
  2. Outgroup
  3. Both
  4. Neither

Answer:

d. Both

7. Men and women identify with their respective genders, which causes them to show a divide in their Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), which causes them to show differences in amount of political power. This account is supported by:

  1. Social identity theory
  2. Self-categorization theory
  3. Social Dominance Theory
  4. System Justification Theory

Answer:

a. Social identity theory

8. The origins of SDO can be found in:

  1. Early childhood education
  2. Unaffectionate parenting
  3. Weak groups
  4. None of the above

Answer:

b. Unaffectionate parenting

9. What is a marker of individuals high in right-wing authoritarianism (RWA)?

  1. Authoritarian aggression
  2. Authoritarian submission
  3. Conformity to conventions
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

10. According to terror management theory (TMT), people cope in the face of uncertainty or threat by becoming:

  1. More conservative
  2. More liberal
  3. More centrist
  4. More polarized

Answer:

d. More polarized

11. What is a primary difference between system justification theory (SJT) and social dominance theory (SDT)?

  1. Whether the advantaged believe legitimizing myths
  2. Whether the disadvantaged believe legitimizing myths
  3. Whether there is a bias toward the status quo
  4. All of the above

Answer:

b. Whether the disadvantaged believe legitimizing myths

12. Presenting people with a multiculturalist perspective might lead them:

  1. To be more accurate about group differences
  2. To show stronger stereotypes
  3. To show weaker stereotypes
  4. Both A and B

Answer:

d. Both A and B

13. “Aversive racism” suggests that people discriminate against racial outgroups when:

  1. They can attribute others’ behavior to racism
  2. They can attribute their behavior to non-racism
  3. They can attribute an outgroup member’s actions to their situation
  4. They notice there is very little ambiguity

Answer:

b. They can attribute their behavior to non-racism

14. During an interracial interaction, for whom is executive control depleted?

  1. Whites
  2. Blacks
  3. Both
  4. Neither

Answer:

c. Both

15. What is a typical result in an interaction, after a person has proven their “moral credentials?”

  1. They are more likely to control their prejudiced thoughts
  2. They are more likely to express their prejudices
  3. Neither
  4. It depends

Answer:

b. They are more likely to express their prejudices

 

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