SACE Stage 2 Psychology Topics 4 and 5: exam-style practice quiz
12 questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away. Options are shuffled each attempt, and the review at the end links each missed question to the dot point to revise.
On a difficult, unfamiliar quiz question, a student changes their answer to match what most classmates wrote, believing the group is probably right. This is:
After joining a climate action group, Ava genuinely adopts its views and keeps them long after leaving the group. Which type of conformity is this?
Which factor would be expected to increase obedience to an instruction to harm another person?
Why is Zimbardo's prison study classified as an experiment rather than an observational study?
A school first asks parents to put a small sticker supporting the canteen on their car. A month later it asks them to volunteer for a weekly canteen shift. Which persuasion strategy is being used?
Female students told before a maths test that the test shows gender differences perform worse than female students given no such message. This is best explained by:
An organisation appoints one person from a minority group to a visible role, but makes no other changes to its hiring practices. This is an example of:
A child who was bitten by a large brown dog becomes afraid of all dogs, but not of cats. Which pair of processes does this show?
A psychologist treats a fear of spiders by teaching relaxation and then gradually exposing the client to a ranked list of spider-related situations while relaxed. This technique is:
A driver fastens their seatbelt to stop an annoying warning beep, and starts buckling up straight away on every trip. The beep stopping is:
Which schedule of reinforcement usually produces behaviour that is most resistant to extinction?
What role are mirror neurons proposed to play in observational learning?