Week 9 - The Social Self and Person Perception

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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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Question 1

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The illusion of transparency describes how...
Answer
  • 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.

Question 2

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Which of the following reduces the illusion of transparency?
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  • 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

Question 3

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

Question 4

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Self affirmations are a good way of increasing self esteem.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 5

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We are [blank_start]poor[blank_end] at explaining our own behaviour. We are [blank_start]poor[blank_end] at predicting our behavior.
Answer
  • poor
  • good
  • poor
  • good

Question 6

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

Question 7

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Which of the following are a type of self serving bias?
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  • Attributional distrortions
  • False consensus
  • False uniqueness
  • Availability heuristic
  • Representative bias

Question 8

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Which of the following are considered to be central traits according to Asch?
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  • Warm
  • Cold
  • Polite
  • Blunt

Question 9

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

Question 10

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We notice and remember information that is [blank_start]consistent[blank_end] with our expectations.
Answer
  • consistent
  • inconsistent

Question 11

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Our impressions of people are [blank_start]greater than[blank_end] the sum of their parts.
Answer
  • greater than
  • less than
  • equal to
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