c. direct persuasion attempt.
d. individual difference.
Answer: D
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Topic: What Is Social Psychology?
Skill: APPLICATION
24. Professor Takahami is a personality psychologist interested in divorce. Which question is she most likely to investigate?
a. Have the changing roles of women contributed to divorce?
b. How does relationship satisfaction relate to divorce?
c. Are some types of people more likely to divorce than others?
d. Do children reduce the odds of divorce?
Answer: C
Difficulty: 3
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Topic: What Is Social Psychology?
Skill: Application
25. How would a personality psychologist most likely explain the mass suicide in Jonestown?
a. An increasingly complex and mobile society creates confusion and the need to belong to a group at any cost.
b. People who have traits of being unstable are more likely to join cults.
c. She wouldn’t try to explain it; personality psychologists are not interested in suicide.
d. The leader’s control over his followers increased slowly over time.
Answer: B
Difficulty: 2
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Topic: What Is Social Psychology?
Skill: Application
26. Compared to social psychologists, personality psychologists are more likely to focus their attention on
a. subjective construals.
b. positive behaviors.
c. individual differences.
d. rewards and punishments.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2
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Topic: What Is Social Psychology?
Skill: Factual
27. When a psychologist discusses individual differences, she is discussing
a. genetic variation.
b. differences in how people respond in different situations.
c. aspects of personality that make people differ from one another.