a. “The Influence of Subjective Reality on Roommate Disagreements”
b. “The Role of Reinforcements in Childhood Eating Behaviors”
c. “Personality Influences on Job Performance in Fast Food Restaurants”
d. “Social Class and Voting Behavior in the Midwest”
Answer: A
Difficulty: 3
Page(s) in Text: 10-11
Topic: The Power of Social Interpretation
Skill: Conceptual
104. The authors of your text suggest that in the 1930s and 1940s, the most influential person in social psychology was
a. Kurt Lewin.
b. John Watson.
c. Lyndon Johnson.
d. B. F. Skinner.
Answer: A
Difficulty: 1
Page(s) in Text: 10
Topic: The Power of Social Interpretation
Skill: FacTual
105. Most of the early social psychologists arrived in the U.S. from
a. Asia
b. Europe
c. Australia
d. South America
Answer: B
Difficulty: 1
Page(s) in Text: 10
Topic: The Power of Social Interpretation
Skill: FacTual
106. In commenting on the development of social psychology in the U.S., Dorwin Cartwright (1979) wrote, “If I were required to name the one person who has had the greatest impact on the field, it would have to be Adolf Hitler.” By this he meant that
a. Hitler’s Mein Kampf was a philosophical treatise that influenced psychology.
b. Gestalt psychology came to the U.S. when Gestalt psychologists fled the Nazi regime.
c. Hitler used social-psychological principles to control the citizens of Germany.
d. World War II stimulated the U.S. economy, and there was more research funding for psychologists.
Answer: B
Difficulty: 2
Page(s) in Text: 10
Topic: The Power of Social Interpretation
Skill: Factual
107. Would social psychology have developed in the U.S. without thinkers from Europe, and why or why not?