SOC 4100 FALL, 20 14,

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS: CHOOSE THE BEST POSSIBLE ANSWER

NAME__________________________________
1) Some support for an evolutionary explanation for aggression comes from gender differences that show
A) men are more aggressive towards other men than towards women.
B) women are more aggressive towards men than towards women.
C) women are more aggressive towards other women than towards men.
D) men are more aggressive towards women than towards other men.
E) women are much more aggressive than men.
2) After watching wrestling on TV for an hour, five-year-old Samuel went outside to play. When five-year-old
Jamie, who lives next door, came outside, Samuel shoved him and tried to get him in a head-lock. This situation
can best be explained by ________.
A) the Type A behavior pattern
B) excitation transfer theory
C) instrumental aggression
D) the social learning perspective
E) classical conditioning
3) Research on aggression and social exclusion indicates that people who are rejected are more likely to
complete words in ways in that show
A) a hostile cognitive mindset.
B) a prosocial mindset.
C) priming of cooperative words.
D) priming of neutral words.
E) attempts to make new friends.
4) The primary strategy for survival among humans is ________.
A) interdependence
B) group sharing
C) inclusive fitness
D) genetic programming
E) group cooperation
5) Entitativity refers to ________.
A) the factors that cause group members to remain in the group
B) the collection of goals and outcomes that is common to all group members
C) the extent to which a group is perceived as being a coherent entity
D) a psychological state marked by reduced self-awareness and reduced social identity
E) the extent to which group members are similar to one another in meaningful ways
6) University alumni associations, as a group, have ________ for many of its members.
A) considerable entitativity
B) mostly a monetary attraction
C) few obstacles to high status
D) little connectedness
E) little variation in content

7) Personal attributes such as ________ appear to play a role in acquiring higher status.
A) height
B) size of forehead
C) usage of abstract words
D) shoe size
E) introverted personal style
8) The Church of England suffered a ________ due to policy changes regarding the ordination of women as
priests.
A) schism
B) factionalizing
C) doctrinal dispute
D) conflict
E) membership decline
9) Distraction-conflict theory and the drive theory of social facilitation are examples of the ________.
A) learning theoretic perspective
B) evolutionary perspective
C) psychoanalytic perspective
D) socio-biological perspective
E) cognitive perspective
10) Being part of a large crowd and experiencing deindividuation ________.
A) increases the probability that crowd members will follow the norms of the crowd
B) decreases the probability that individual crowd members will engage in wild or unruly behavior
C) increases the probability that individual crowd members will engage in altruistic behavior
D) decreases the probability that crowd members will follow the norms of the crowd
E) increases the probability that individual crowd members will engage in negative, destructive behavior
11) There are many negative consequences to being lonely including _________.
A) other people perceiving someone who is lonely as maladjusted
B) having the freedom to do what you want
C) freedom to engage in solitary pursuits
D) becoming adept at self-care
E) other people perceiving someone who is lonely as a potential new friend
12) In a study of children that included siblings, identical twins, and fraternal twins results show that loneliness
is ________.
A) inherited
B) completely about the environment
C) due only to nurture rather than nature
D) highly variable among siblings
E) situational
13) Results examining siblings found support that environment can play a crucial role in loneliness. This
finding is best supported by the finding that
A) identical twins raised apart had similar levels of loneliness.
B) fraternal twins raised apart had similar levels of loneliness.
C) siblings raised together had similar levels of loneliness.
D) unrelated siblings raised together had similar levels of loneliness.
E) all children experience loneliness at some point.

14) Which attachment style is most likely to result in the most loneliness?
A) Fearful-avoidant
B) Anxious
C) Dismissing
D) Both A and B
E) Both B and C
15) How can loneliness be reduced?
A) Learning self-defeating behaviors.
B) Increasing ones self-esteem.
C) Improving ones social skills.
D) Reinforcing an avoidant attachment style.
E) Improving ones attitude.