KSU Sociology when Scientists Use Evidence and Analytical Argument Questions

• When scientists use evidence and analytical arguments to affect the public’s attitude on climate change they are using ______________persuasion
  • Peripheral route
  • Snap judgement
  • Central route
  • Fundamental attribution
• A classic study was conducted in which college students spent six days in a fake ‘prison’ with half of the students serving as guards and the other half acting as prisoners. This study
  • Was conducted by Stanley Milgram
  • Was conducted to study the effect of conformity upon behavior
  • Found that the roles to which students were assigned altered their attitudes.
  • Found that role playing did not affect how ‘guard’ students acted toward ‘prisoner’ students or vice versa
  • All of the above are true
• Behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next is the definition of ________________ which adopts rules for accepted and expected behaviors called _________.
  • Culture; norms
  • Culture; social influences
  • Generational trend; culture
  • Societal pressure; obedience regulations
• When our behavior conforms to that of others so that we are either accepted by them or avoid rejection by them we are responding to
  • Informational social influence
  • Normative social influence
  • Automatic mimicry
  • Social facilitation
• You are working on a group project with three other students. You find that you do not work as hard in the group than if you were individually responsible for a project. This phenomenon is referred to as
  • Normative social influence
  • Social facilitation
  • Social loafing
  • Foot-in-the-door
  • Groupthink
• In 1961, President Kennedy assembled his top advisors to deal with a very dangerous situation whereby Cuba was purported to have nuclear missiles pointed at the U.S.A. Every person in the room agreed to the disastrous idea to invade Cuba. According to the textbook, how could a group of intelligent and informed individuals make such a big mistake?
  • They were forced to obey by the President.
  • They were being deindividualized by the others in the room
  • Social facilitation
  • Groupthink
  • Social loafing
• Studies within the last 20 years have demonstrated which of the following?
  • People tend to view their mothers as being more intelligent than their fathers.
  • Across the world men are more likely to live in poverty than are women
  • Across the world women are more likely to be illiterate than men.
  • All of these have been supported by the research
  • None of these have been supported by the research
• The “other-race effect”
  • Is first seen in babies between 3 and 9 months of age.
  • Refers to our tendency to scapegoat people who are not like us.
  • reflects the fact that humans are better at identifying faces from a different race than faces from their own race.
  • Cannot be eliminated through experience with other races
• The ____________________________ describes our tendency to ‘like’ objects and people that we see repeatedly.
  • Scapegoat theory
  • Just-world phenomenon
  • Mere exposure effect
  • Own race bias
  • Reward theory of attraction
• Companionate love refers to
  • Passionate, sexual love
  • The love one feels for a pet companion
  • The immature type of love that individuals feel for each other during the early stages of a relationship.
  • All of these are true

None of these are true