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61. Research shows that one difference between couples who divorced soon : 1201867
61. Research shows that one difference between couples who divorced soon after getting married as opposed to couples who divorced after many years of marriage is that those who divorced soon after marriage
A. did not express positive or negative feelings.
B. had realistic views of each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
C. were unable to control the expression of negative feelings.
D. communicated only positive feelings and kept the negative ones to themselves.
62. As you walk into your first Philsophy class, you notice that everyone is sitting on the floor, so you sit on the floor, too. This is an example of
A. social facilitation.
B. social interference.
C. social loafing.
D. a social norm.
63. When he visited Japan, Anton did not remove his shoes on entering the house, as did his Japanese hosts. Anton could not understand why his hosts were no longer friendly. Anton must have
A. used the wrong reference group.
B. experienced a social dilemma.
C. failed to comply.
D. violated a Japanese social norm.
64. On January 26, Nilam received a Happy Australia Day card from an acquaintance. She felt a little bad about not having sent one, so she bought a belated Happy Australia Day card and sent it to the acquaintance. Nilam is being influenced by
A. social facilitation.
B. the matching hypothesis.
C. propinquity.
D. the reciprocity social norm.
65. Veronica is at a rock concert. During the concert, dozens of people start shouting obscenities at the police officers who come onto the stage to arrest the group. Even though she would never dream of yelling dirty words at police officers on her own, Veronica joins the crowd and is among the first to run up on stage to try to stop the police. Veronica is experiencing
A. social facilitation.
B. the actor-observer effect.
C. deindividuation.
D. normative pressure.
66. Melvin is with a large group of students who are drinking and celebrating Halloween at a street party. Which of the following will make it more likely that Melvin will experience deindividuation?
A. He is focused on his own values, rather than on group norms.
B. He is wearing a sheet over his head to simulate a ghost costume.
C. He attends a small college where everyone knows everyone else.
D. He feels responsible and accountable for his own behavior.
67. Although nobody specifically asked him to, Lorenz went along with the gang and punctured tires and broke windshields on a row of cars in the parking lot. Lorenz felt that if he did not participate in the vandalism, he would not be accepted by the group. This example best illustrates
A. compliance.
B. conformity.
C. obedience.
D. assimilation.
68. Before their first college semester started, a group of ten students were invited to a meeting with some of the faculty and the dean to help plan the curriculum for the coming year. When the students were asked to state their opinions, which of the following factors would have increased the likelihood of conformity occurring:
A. If there were more females than males in the group
B. If the students had already done the same thing in their high schools
C. If there were more males than females in the group
D. If this was an unfamiliar situation for the students
69. Considering that people in collectivist cultures are particularly likely to go along with the group merely to maintain harmony within the group suggests that collectivists often experience
A. social dilemmas.
B. private acceptance.
C. public conformity.
D. social facilitation.
70. The Smurfs have to decide who will rescue Papa Smurf from the clutches of Gargamel. Most everyone agrees that Hefty Smurf should be the rescuer, but Grouchy Smurf is not so sure Hefty can pull it off. Grouchy listens to their reasons and decides that the argument for Hefty sounds legitimate. Grouchy Smurf has conformed to the other Smurfs’ decision based on
A. private acceptance.
B. public conformity.
C. social desirability.
D. a descriptive norm.
