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6. what is the most common effect of negative political ads?

  • backlash effect
  • backlash effect + victim syndrome effect
  • victim syndrome effect
  • double impairment effect
  • intended effect

7. Wha is the mere presence theory of arousal in social facilitation/inhibition?

  • arousal is dependent on one's assessment of the situation, and whether it is a challenge or a threat.
  • the presence of others leads to the assumption that performance is being evaluated, and this causes heightened arousal.
  • the mere presence of others leads to heightened arousal.
  • the presence of others is distracting, and this causes attention to be divided between task and audience.

8. the fact that aggression levels change across time and culture supports the...

  • hydraulic theory of aggression
  • social learning theory
  • cultural argument of aggression
  • evolutionary argument of aggression

9. which type of love has 'feelings of intimacy and affection, unaccompanied by passion or arousal'?

  • fatuous love
  • companionate love
  • consummate love
  • passionate love

10. the Bandura (1961) Bobo doll study supports...

  • the cultural argument for aggression
  • social learning theory
  • the evolutionary argument for aggression
  • social impact theory

11. which model has has the most support for predicting the relationship between age and attitude change?

  • increasing persistence hypothesis
  • life-stages hypothesis
  • impressionable years hypothesis

12. the bigger the city,...

  • the less likely it is someone will offer help
  • the more likely it is someone will offer help
  • does not have an affect on the likelihood that help will be offered

13. which of these is not an effective way to increase helping behaviour?

  • learning about altruism
  • strong external reward
  • inducing guilt
  • reducing ambiguity/increasing responsibility

14. Where is social loafing most prevalent?

  • among women, and in Western cultures
  • among women, and in Asian cultures
  • among men, and in Western cultures
  • among men, and in Asian cultures

15. what you expect the outcome of your relationship to be in terms of costs/rewards is referred to as:

  • commitment
  • comparison level
  • investment
  • comparison level for alternatives

16. What is the evaluation apprehension theory of arousal in social facilitation/inhibition?

  • the presence of others leads to the assumption that performance is being evaluated, and this causes heightened arousal.
  • the mere presence of others leads to heightened arousal.
  • the presence of others is distracting, and this causes attention to be divided between task and audience.
  • arousal is dependent on one's assessment of the situation, and whether it is a challenge or a threat.

17. which of these is not a physiological factor that influences aggression levels

  • pain
  • heat/humidity
  • provocation
  • intoxication

18. what is the only way to determine causality?

  • the experimental method
  • the observational method
  • the correlational method

19. the most common response to trauma is...

  • PTSD
  • depression
  • resilience
  • anxiety

20. which of these 3 key norms best explains helping those who depend upon us?

  • social responsibility
  • reciprocity
  • social justice