Question

1.Your textbook talks about how social psychology differs from other social sciences. According to the information provided in the text, which of the following questions is a social psychologist most likely to study?

1. Is it true that people who live in Canada place a lower value on obedience to authority than do people in other countries?
2. Is it true that people with low levels of self-esteem and high levels of anxiety are more likely to obey authorities than are people with high self-esteem and low anxiety?
3. Are you more likely to obey an authority figure if you are with a group of friends or if you are with a group of people you don’t know well?
4. Are people who are devoutly religious more likely to unquestionably obey authorities than are atheists?

4.According to the lectures, the need to justify their previous decisions and actions led members of the People’s Temple to:

1. Come to believe that Jim Jones had supernatural powers and a connection to God.
2. Give Jim Jones all their money and possessions.
3. Feel psychologically isolated from their family and friends.
4. Help Jim Jones to suppress acts of dissent when others objected to his behavior

5.According to the lectures, Jim Jones separated wives from husbands and parents from children in order to:

1. Cause family members to be suspicious and mistrustful of outsiders.
2. Cause cult members to avoid expressing their doubts about his behavior.
3. Cause cult members to believe that he was the father-figure who would take care of all their psychological needs.
4. Produce short-term compliance but not long-term attitude change.

Answer 1

1. Answer: Are you more likely to obey an authority figure if you are with a group of friends or if you are with a group of people you don’t know well?

4. Answer: Feel psychologically isolated from their family and friends.

5. Answer: Cause cult members to believe that he was the father-figure who would take care of all their psychological needs.