Question : Multiple Choice Questions 1. Sally’s marching band selling candy to raise money : 1198600

Multiple Choice Questions
 

1. Sally’s marching band is selling candy to raise money for new uniforms. All members are asked to sell candy bars. At the end of the month they will pool their money and make the purchase. This is an example of a(n) 
A. additive task.
B. disjunctive task.
C. social loafing.
D. social facilitation.

2. Ingham (1974) found that when blindfolded participants thought they were pulling a tug of war with other participants, they _______ than when they thought they were pulling alone. 
A. pulled more
B. pulled less
C. pulled the same amount
D. varied more in their pulling amount

3. _______ refers to the tendency for people to exert less effort when they pool their efforts toward a common goal than when they are individually accountable. 
A. Social facilitation
B. Social loafing
C. Deindividuation
D. Mere presence

4. Sam has a tendency contribute little effort to group assignments, as he thinks others will be sure to pick up the slack in an effort to get a good grade. This is an example of 
A. social facilitation.
B. social loafing.
C. deindividuation.
D. mere presence.

5. In a study by Latané and his colleagues (1979), participants were asked to shout and clap as loud as possible. Participants produced the most noise when they 
A. thought they were shouting alone.
B. thought there was one other person shouting with them.
C. thought there were five other people shouting with them.
D. were not feeling any evaluation apprehension.

6. Sam has a tendency to contribute little effort to group assignments, as he thinks others will be sure to pick up the slack in an effort to get a good grade. Social psychologists would call Sam a 
A. social facilitator.
B. free loafer.
C. free rider.
D. free loader.

7. When the output of collective farms and private plots were compared 
A. the collective farms were more productive.
B. the private plots were more productive.
C. there was little difference between the two.
D. the output depended on the relationships within the group.

8. When being observed increases evaluation concerns, _______ occurs; when being lost in a crowd decreases evaluation concerns, _______ occurs. 
A. deindividuation; groupthink
B. groupthink; deindividuation
C. social loafing; social facilitation
D. social facilitation; social loafing

9. At your factory job, output was measured at the end of every day by how much the team of workers you belonged to produced. Because of this evaluation procedure, your behavior was characterized by _______; now that a new manager has taken over and each individual worker’s output is measured by a computer, your behavior is now characterized by _______. 
A. deindividuation; groupthink
B. groupthink; deindividuation
C. social loafing; social facilitation
D. social facilitation; social loafing

10. When individual efforts are pooled and not evaluated, evaluation apprehension is _______ and the probability of social loafing is _______. 
A. high; low
B. low; high
C. high; high
D. low; low