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 is often true of both cognitive and affective influences on behavior?

  1. They function in very similar ways to each other
  2. They are quantified using the same measures
  3. They are experimentally manipulated in the same ways
  4. All of the above

Answer:

a. They function in very similar ways to each other

2. What types of information are included in the idea of “social intelligence”?

  1. Facts about people
  2. Rules for categorizing people
  3. Rules for social inferences
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

3. What are the results of “goal-shielding”?

  1. More attention to focal goals
  2. More attention to alternative goals
  3. Both A and B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer:

a. More attention to focal goals

4. What type of cues are at work when people use implementation intentions?

  1. Situational cues
  2. Individual cues
  3. Controlled cues
  4. None of the above

Answer:

a. Situational cues

5. The planning fallacy results in:

  1. Overly-pessimistic expectations and incomplete projects
  2. Overly-optimistic expectations and incomplete projects
  3. Overly-pessimistic expectations and completed projects
  4. Overly-optimistic expectations and completed projects

Answer:

d. Overly-optimistic expectations and completed projects

6. When primed with stereotypes of the elderly, an assimilation response would be to:

  1. Walk more slowly
  2. Walk more quickly
  3. It depends on the goal
  4. It depends on the situational cues

Answer:

a. Walk more slowly

7. If you are about to give an in-class presentation, and you feel highly motivated not to look stupid in front of your classmates, then you probably have adopted a:

  1. Promotion focus
  2. Prevention focus
  3. Both A and B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer:

b. Prevention focus

8. Feelings of positive and approach motivational affect are related to:

  1. Left frontal cortical activity
  2. Right frontal cortical activity
  3. Both A and B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer:

a. Left frontal cortical activity

9. The prefrontal cortex is involved in:

  1. Simple automatic behaviour
  2. Goal-directed behaviour
  3. Goal representation
  4. Both B and C

Answer:

d. Both B and C

10. When is an attitude toward a group member most likely to be consistent with behavior toward that group member?

  1. When the group member is similar to the self
  2. When the group member is prototypical of the group
  3. When the group member is stereotypical of the group
  4. When the group member is counter-stereotypical of the group

Answer:

b. When the group member is prototypical of the group

11. According to the theory of reasoned action, which features of intentions predict people’s behavior?

  1. Attitudes
  2. Subjective Norms
  3. Relative importance of attitudes versus subjective norms
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

12. What is a feature of strong attitudes?

  1. They are stable
  2. They are accessible
  3. They predict behaviour
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

13. What does it mean for an attitude to be “embedded?”

  1. It is a subset of a broader group of beliefs
  2. It is related to other held beliefs
  3. It is related to sensations felt in the body
  4. None of the above

Answer:

b. It is related to other held beliefs

14. When we analyze the reasons for our attitudes, those attitudes are likely to:

  1. Become stronger
  2. Become weaker
  3. Change temporarily
  4. Change permanently

Answer:

c. Change temporarily

15. What type of situation is likely to weaken the relationship between cognition and behavior?

  1. Low attitude relevance
  2. High attitude relevance
  3. Low behavior relevance
  4. All of the above

Answer:

b. High attitude relevance

 

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