Social Psychology Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

What is the name for the proposal that people tend to form lasting romantic partnerships with others who are close to them in physical attractiveness, rather than simply pairing with the most attractive person available?

Question 2

What is the name for Icek Ajzen's model that predicts a deliberate action from the strength of the intention behind it, which in turn grows out of the person's attitude to the act, the perceived social pressure around it, and how much control they feel they have?

Question 3

What is the name for the process of trying to control the picture that other people form of oneself, by choosing what to reveal, how to dress and speak, and which attitudes to voice, so as to appear likeable, competent or virtuous?

Question 4

What is the name for the process by which a small, consistent, confident faction gradually changes the views of a larger group, working slowly and mostly by making the majority genuinely rethink rather than by social pressure?

Question 5

What is the name for the strength of the bonds that hold a group's members together, the sum of the forces, liking, shared goals, pride in membership, that keep people wanting to belong and to stay?

Question 6

What is the name for the discomfort that follows a hard choice between two close options, and the way it is eased afterward by playing up the good points of the chosen option and the bad points of the rejected one?

Question 7

What is the name for publicly going along with a request or a group position while privately continuing to disagree, so that the outward change lasts only as long as the group is watching or the requester is present?

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About Social Psychology

This quiz is about how people think, feel and act in the presence of others: how we read ourselves and other people, how attitudes form and shift, how groups sway the individual through conformity and obedience, what happens inside groups making decisions, why we help or fail to help and why we aggress, what draws people together, and how prejudice between groups arises and can be eased. Ninety questions in six packs, each describing a concept, an effect, a theory or a technique and asking you to name it from four choices of the same kind, then explaining it. It is a knowledge quiz.

The first pack covers social cognition and the self: the looking-glass self, social comparison, self-handicapping, impression management and self-monitoring, the actor-observer and false-consensus biases, attribution theory and the covariation model, the ultimate attribution error, defensive attribution, the self-fulfilling prophecy, the primacy effect in first impressions, implicit personality theory and terror management theory.

The second pack covers attitudes and persuasion: the ABC model, the theory of planned behaviour, effort justification and insufficient justification, post-decisional dissonance, self-perception theory, the elaboration likelihood model with its central and peripheral routes, the sleeper effect, inoculation, the foot-in-the-door and door-in-the-face tactics, lowballing and reactance.

The third pack covers conformity and obedience: normative and informational influence, conformity, compliance and obedience to authority, the agentic state, internalisation and identification, minority influence and idiosyncrasy credit, social norms, the chameleon effect, legitimate authority, the unanimity effect and social impact theory.

The fourth pack covers group processes: social facilitation and social loafing, deindividuation, group polarisation and groupthink, the risky shift, cohesiveness, brainstorming's productivity loss, the shared information bias, social compensation and the sucker effect, entitativity, transactive memory, transformational leadership and the Abilene paradox.

The fifth pack covers helping, aggression and attraction: the bystander effect, diffusion of responsibility and pluralistic ignorance, the arousal cost-reward model and the empathy-altruism hypothesis, the norms of reciprocity and social responsibility, the frustration-aggression hypothesis, the weapons effect, excitation transfer, the catharsis hypothesis, misattribution of arousal, the mere-exposure effect, the matching hypothesis and the propinquity effect.

The sixth pack covers prejudice and relations between groups: social identity theory and the minimal group paradigm, in-group favouritism and the out-group homogeneity effect, realistic conflict theory and superordinate goals, the contact hypothesis and the jigsaw classroom, stereotype threat, the stereotype content model, system justification, aversive racism, the scapegoat theory, the black sheep effect and the common in-group identity model.

The wrong answers are always other concepts, effects, theories or techniques of the same kind. About thirty-six of the ninety questions carry a photograph of a neutral object, dice, poker chips, a stopwatch, a model brain or a microscope, chosen because every option is the same sort of thing and the picture cannot point to any of them. Facts have been checked against standard social-psychology texts.