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PSY234 - Personality and Social Quiz on Week 9 - The Social Self and Person Perception, created by Daniel Whiting on 22/05/2017.

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Week 9 - The Social Self and Person Perception

Question 1 of 11

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The illusion of transparency describes how...

Select one of the following:

  • we feel that people can very easily determine our emotions.

  • we feel like people just see through us as if we don't exist.

  • a visual illusion that makes us think we are seeing through an object, similar to occlusion lines.

  • we feel that people notice negative things about us more often than they actually do.

Explanation

Question 2 of 11

1

Which of the following reduces the illusion of transparency?

Select one of the following:

  • Knowing about the illusion

  • Being 100% upfront so that there is no doubt about what someone else is thinking about you

  • Avoiding social situations altogether

  • Wearing a red shirt

Explanation

Question 3 of 11

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What are some of the factors that influence the development of the social self?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Heritability

  • Birth order

  • A persons in group

  • A persons ability to discriminate between 2 peoples voices.

  • Downward social comparisons

  • Upward social comparisons

  • Personal successes

  • Luck

Explanation

Question 4 of 11

1

Self affirmations are a good way of increasing self esteem.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 5 of 11

1

Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

We are ( poor, good ) at explaining our own behaviour.

We are ( poor, good ) at predicting our behavior.

Explanation

Question 6 of 11

1

What effect does negative feedback have on people with high self esteem?

Select one of the following:

  • Increase in rudeness and arrogance

  • No effect because their high self esteem helps them to reassure themselves

  • Increase in politeness and altruism in order to "be better" after a negative result

  • Makes their self esteem become low for an extended period

Explanation

Question 7 of 11

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Which of the following are a type of self serving bias?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Attributional distrortions

  • False consensus

  • False uniqueness

  • Availability heuristic

  • Representative bias

Explanation

Question 8 of 11

1

Which of the following are considered to be central traits according to Asch?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Warm

  • Cold

  • Polite

  • Blunt

Explanation

Question 9 of 11

1

To humans, losing $10 is just as negative as finding $10 is positive.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 10 of 11

1

Select from the dropdown list to complete the text.

We notice and remember information that is ( consistent, inconsistent ) with our expectations.

Explanation

Question 11 of 11

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Select from the dropdown list to complete the text.

Our impressions of people are ( greater than, less than, equal to ) the sum of their parts.

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