Lesson 3.4.5

3.4.5 Psychological effects of the built environment (social) Quiz: OCR Psychology, Unit 3

20 questions

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Lesson 3.4.5, Psychological effects of the built environment (social): 20 multiple choice questions for the OCR Psychology (H567), Unit 3: Applied psychology (Component 03), written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What term describes the psychological feeling of having too much space relative to one's desires?

    • Isolation
    • Density
    • Undercrowding
    • Overcrowding

  2. What term describes the physical amount of space available per person in a building?

    • Undercrowding
    • Proxemics
    • Spatial density
    • Social density

  3. Which subjective state represents the psychological distress caused by high spatial density?

    • Crowding
    • Urbanity
    • Density
    • Agoraphobia

  4. Which architect designed Pruitt-Igoe, a housing estate whose demolition marked a crisis in high-rise living?

    • Le Corbusier
    • Minoru Yamasaki
    • Frank Gehry
    • Oscar Niemeyer

  5. What mechanism explains how excessive environmental stimulation leads to withdrawal in dense cities?

    • Social facilitation
    • Sensory deprivation
    • Stimulus overload
    • Cognitive priming

  6. Sarah lives in a tiny studio flat and feels constantly stressed by her lack of room. What is she experiencing?

    • Spatial density
    • Crowding
    • Undercrowding
    • Social density

  7. A school increases class sizes from twenty to thirty students in the exact same classroom. What has increased?

    • Architecture
    • Crowding
    • Social density
    • Spatial density

  8. An elderly man living in a large mansion feels lonely because he has no visitors. What is he experiencing?

    • Social density
    • Undercrowding
    • Stimulus overload
    • Overcrowding

  9. A university library adds more desks to a study hall, reducing the personal space of each student. What might increase?

    • Altruism
    • Aggression
    • Cooperation
    • Undercrowding

  10. Why might high-rise apartment living negatively affect children's outdoor play and social development?

    • Reduced accessibility
    • Defensible space
    • Spatial undercrowding
    • Increased greenery

  11. Which research method do psychologists primarily use to study the subjective experience of crowding in real-world settings?

    • Animal dissections
    • Self-report questionnaires
    • Controlled experiments
    • Brain scans

  12. Which term describes a subjective feeling of not having enough space?

    • Privation
    • Crowding
    • Isolation
    • Density

  13. What is the term for the objective measurement of individuals per unit area?

    • Capacity
    • Crowding
    • Volume
    • Density

  14. Which environmental factor involves unwanted auditory stimuli causing psychological stress?

    • Noise
    • Lighting
    • Crowding
    • Temperature

  15. Why might chronic exposure to high urban noise levels impair children's reading comprehension at school?

    • Cognitive overload
    • Spatial deprivation
    • Social facilitation
    • Sensory adaptation

  16. Which architectural layout principle increases social cohesion by arranging housing around shared central courtyards?

    • Gridiron design
    • Defensible space
    • Linear zoning
    • High-rise living

  17. Which theory suggests that urban crowding leads to behavioural sinks and social pathology?

    • Asch's conformity lines
    • Zimbardo's prison study
    • Calhoun's rodent studies
    • Milgram's obedience test

  18. Which environmental psychologist proposed the overload model to explain the negative effects of urban density?

    • Edward Hall
    • Stanley Milgram
    • Irwin Altman
    • Robert Sommer

  19. Mark feels overwhelmed by noise and crowd density in London and ignores people asking for help. What is this called?

    • Environmental adaptation
    • Urban withdrawal
    • Personal zoning
    • Social cohesion

  20. Which concept describes a personal boundary zone that individuals maintain around themselves in social settings?

    • Social density
    • Architectural layout
    • Personal space
    • Territoriality

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