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. What type of appeal is more likely to elicit help from a stranger, according to the separate process view?

  1. Trying to make the stranger feel guilty about not helping
  2. Emphasizing the rewards of helping
  3. Both A and B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer:

b. Emphasizing the rewards of helping

2. A woman watches as a boy gives some money to a homeless person. The woman subsequently helps another person out of a general feeling of human goodness. Which hypothesis might predict this result?

  1. Social outlook
  2. Focus of attention
  3. Mood maintenance
  4. All of the above

Answer:

a. Social outlook

3. What is true about people in a cheerful mood?

  1. They initiate fewer interactions
  2. They aggress against others less often
  3. They reward themselves more
  4. Both B and C

Answer:

d. Both B and C

4. Why might happy people be more helpful?

  1. They want to stay in a happy mood
  2. They like others more when they are happy
  3. They are more optimistic when they are happy
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

5. Mood-congruent memory effects are likely to be:

  1. Motivated
  2. Automatic
  3. Controlled
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

6. Do negative events tend to be memorable?

  1. Mostly they tend not to be as memorable as positive events
  2. Yes, for people high in neuroticism
  3. Yes, for depressed people
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

7. In the context of embodied cognition research, what does “offline cognition” mean?

  1. Unobtrusively manipulating facial expressions instead of mood states
  2. Recreating perception without the original targets
  3. Presenting stimuli in different sensory modalities
  4. All of the above

Answer:

b. Recreating perception without the original targets

8. Compared to fear, anger makes people feel ________ about the future.

  1. Optimistic
  2. Neutral
  3. Risk-averse
  4. Pessimistic

Answer:

a. Optimistic

9. Which of the below is found to be universally disgusting?

  1. Vermin
  2. Bodily products
  3. Death
  4. None of the above

Answer:

d. None of the above

10. Which brain area is NOT implicated in the neuroscience of emotion in decision-making?

  1. Amygdala
  2. vmPFC
  3. dlPFC
  4. None of the above

Answer:

d. None of the above

11. Research on the effects of mood on persuasion shows many examples of:

  1. Classical conditioning
  2. Cognitive processes
  3. Automatic processes
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

12. How can mood influence attitudes toward an argument?

  1. As an incidental cue
  2. As an influence on how the information is processed
  3. As an influence on the amount of information processed
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

13. What kind of studies can support the idea that happiness causes success?

  1. Cross-sectional designs
  2. Longitudinal designs
  3. Both A and B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer:

b. Longitudinal designs

14. What types of stimuli are typically liked more after repeated presentation?

  1. Paintings
  2. Drawings
  3. Photographs
  4. All of the above

Answer:

c. Photographs

15. Social judgments are often____________ social memory.

  1. Correlated with
  2. Uncorrelated with
  3. Based on
  4. Cues for

Answer:

b. Uncorrelated with

 

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