a. True personality differences do not exist.
b. It is not important to study individual differences in personality.
c. Seemingly minor aspects of a social situation can override personality differences.
d. All the competitive people ended up playing the “Wall Street Game.”
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2
Page(s) in Text: 8-9
Topic: The Power of the Situation
Skill: Application
68. Ross and colleagues (2004) randomly assigned participants previously identified as cooperative or competitive to play a game that was labeled either the “Wall Street Game” or the “Community Game.” If their results had indicated that, no matter what the game, participants who were identified as competitive behaved more competitively in both groups than did participants who were identified as cooperative, these findings would have suggested that
a. seemingly minor aspects of a social situation can override personality differences.
b. cooperation and competition are based on personality characteristics that are consistent across social situations.
c. competitive participants in the “Wall Street Game” caused their partners to respond in kind.
d. cooperative participants in the “Community Game” caused their partners to respond in kind.
Answer: B
Difficulty: 3
Page(s) in Text: 8-9
Topic: The Power of the Situation
Skill: Conceptual
69. When Monique plays checkers with her younger sister, she lets her sister win. When she plays with her older brother, she does everything she can to beat him. A social psychologist would suggest that
a. Monique’s personality is unstable.
b. Monique is ambivalent in how she feels about her siblings.
c. Monique is responding to different social situations.
d. Monique is blindly obedient to the rules of the game.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2
Page(s) in Text: 9
Topic: The Power of Social Interpretation
Skill: Application
70. Behaviorists believe that all learning is a result of
a. reinforcement and punishment.
b. interpretation.
c. emotion.
d. Gestalt principles.
Answer: A