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PYB202 Practice Exam - Intergroup Behaviour - Lecture 7

Question 1 of 17

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According to the accentuation effect, the categorisation of people leads to perceive that:

Select one of the following:

  • the differences between people in the different category are more prominent

  • the differences between people in the same category are more prominent

  • less typical category members are often become seen as part of the “outgroup”

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 2 of 17

1

According to Social Identity Theory, someone in the low status group who attempts to become part of the high status group is an example of which type of strategy to improve social identity?

Select one of the following:

  • Social creativity

  • Individual mobility

  • Social change

  • Social mobility

Explanation

Question 3 of 17

1

Which of the following is NOT a feature of optimal contact in Allport's contact hypothesis?

Select one of the following:

  • Prolonged cooperative activities

  • Equal status

  • Institutional support

  • Communicating as individuals rather than group members

Explanation

Question 4 of 17

1

According to the J-Curve hypothesis of relative deprivation, relative deprivation is particularly strong when:

Select one of the following:

  • the difference between one’s own achievements and others’ achievements is large

  • the difference between one’s own achievements and others’ achievements has endured over time

  • attainments suffer a sudden setback when expectations continue to rise

  • all of the above

Explanation

Question 5 of 17

1

Which of the following is NOT correct about self-categorisation theory?

Select one of the following:

  • People use prototypes to minimise differences between groups

  • People use prototypes to minimise differences within groups

  • People assign their ingroup norms to the self as guides for their behaviour

  • People use ingroup members as a source of informational influence

Explanation

Question 6 of 17

1

Which of the following is NOT a Process factor in Le Bon’s model of the crowd?

Select one of the following:

  • Anonymity

  • Contagion

  • Suggestibility

  • Irresponsibility

Explanation

Question 7 of 17

1

In intergroup disharmony, Berkowitz (1972) was responsible for a study that explained what?

Select one of the following:

  • The "long, hot summer" explanation of collective violence due to aversive and aggressive environmental stimuli.

  • The J-curve hypothesis, when people's state of living increases and an incident happens, their status of living starts to go down.

  • Summer camp studies, where it was measured how children reacted in group when on camp

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 8 of 17

1

In intergroup disharmony, Davie's (1969) J-Curve hypothesises that...

Select one of the following:

  • When people's living standards go up, and they suddenly start to feel as though they aren't getting what they deserve from society, their expectation of living standards continue to rise, but the attainment of their living standard drops.

  • When people begin to feel they aren't getting what they deserve so they work harder to get to where they want to be.

  • When you introduce a subordinate goal, groups will then begin to get along.

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 9 of 17

1

Runciman's (1966) Egoistic is when someone feels they are getting what they are entitled to

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 10 of 17

1

Runciman's (1966) Fraternalistic is when a group feels they are not getting what they are entitled to, leading to group disharmony.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 11 of 17

1

When a group of people were told they were either a kandinsky fan or a klee fan, they were likely to favour the group they were given, even if they had never heard of it before,

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 12 of 17

1

Self categorization theory (Turner and Colleagues) uses prototypes to:

Select one of the following:

  • Minimise differences within groups and maximise differences between groups

  • Minimise differences between groups and maximise difference within groups

Explanation

Question 13 of 17

1

Which one of these are NOT a part of Referent informational influence

Select one of the following:

  • Self categorization

  • Discovering group norms

  • Self Stereotype into the group

  • Conform to the group

  • Get involved with an outgroup fight

Explanation

Question 14 of 17

1

What does relative homogeneity effect mean?

Select one of the following:

  • The tendency for people to view members of a group that is different from their own as being more similar to each other, while they view members of their own group as being more diverse.

  • When people view people in their group to being exactly like themselves

  • When people view outgroup members as being really different to eachother

Explanation

Question 15 of 17

1

In Howard and Rothbart's (1980) study, Participants were equally good at recalling whether it was an ingroup or outgroup member who performed favourable behaviours, but they were better at recalling outgroup than ingroup actors who performed unfavourable behaviours.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 16 of 17

1

According to Johnson and Downing (1979), Do they believe that anonymity has a major influence on how someone behaves

Select one of the following:

  • Yes

  • No

Explanation

Question 17 of 17

1

In what way do Superordinate goals not create Intergroup Harmony?

Select one of the following:

  • In large crowds

  • If they are unsuccessful

  • If their is stereotyping of the other group

  • All of the above

Explanation

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