Clique Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. In peer research, what does perceived popularity generally refer to?
How much a person is genuinely liked by every peer
How visible, influential, or socially prominent a person is seen as being
How many close and supportive friendships a person has
How accurately a person understands group norms
2. What term describes the tendency for people to form relationships with others who are similar to them in interests, background, or attitudes?
Homophily
Reciprocity
Deindividuation
Social compensation
3. Several clique members privately think excluding a newcomer is unfair. Nobody objects because each person incorrectly assumes the others support the exclusion. Which concept fits best?
Group polarization
Deindividuation
Pluralistic ignorance
Social facilitation
4. A group of friends has warm relationships but welcomes newcomers easily, and people can participate without seeking approval from core members. Compared with a tightly bounded clique, how is this group best described?
It is a crowd because all open groups are crowds
It is a formal organization because membership is flexible
It is a friendship group with relatively open, flexible boundaries
It is not a social group because its boundaries can change
5. A youth program wants to reduce rigid clique boundaries without forcing participants to abandon existing friendships. Which approach is most likely to encourage meaningful cross-group contact?
Assign separate projects to each established clique
Let each clique compete publicly for a single prize
Ask participants to sit near unfamiliar peers without a shared task
Create mixed-group teams that cooperate toward shared goals
6. In social network analysis, what condition defines a clique in the strict graph-theory sense?
Every member is directly connected to every other member
All members follow the same informal leader
One person has more connections than every other person
The group has no connections to people outside it
7. A student maintains genuine connections with two cliques that rarely interact, allowing ideas and opportunities to pass between them. What can these cross-group ties provide?
Role conflict
Bridging social capital
Greater out-group uniformity
Stronger boundary maintenance
8. Someone spreads a rumor to damage a peer's friendships and social standing without using physical force. What type of behavior is this?
Informational influence
Social facilitation
Relational aggression
Task conflict
9. Students begin checking their phones during lunch because they notice that most members of their group do it, even though nobody says it is expected. What is guiding them?
A descriptive norm
An injunctive norm
The reciprocity norm
The out-group homogeneity effect
10. A lunch group accepts only people invited by existing members and makes it obvious who does not belong. Which clique feature is most evident?
Social facilitation
Diffusion of responsibility
Boundary maintenance
Upward social comparison
11. Members of one clique describe their own group as varied but assume that everyone in another clique thinks and behaves alike. Which bias does this illustrate?
The false-consensus effect
The out-group homogeneity effect
The bystander effect
The mere-exposure effect
12. No one in the music group knows anyone in the sports group except Alex, who regularly interacts with both. What network role does Alex occupy?
A social isolate
A broker or bridge
A peripheral member
A conformist follower
13. Maya dislikes her clique's habit of teasing outsiders, but she laughs along because she expects the group would reject an objection. What best explains her response?
Informational social influence
Social loafing
Group polarization
Normative social influence
14. How does a social crowd usually differ from a clique?
A crowd always meets face to face, while a clique communicates only online
A crowd is always temporary, while a clique must last for years
A crowd has stricter membership boundaries than a clique
A crowd is a broader reputation-based category, while a clique usually involves direct interaction
15. In social science, which description best captures a clique?
A relatively small, cohesive group with selective or clearly recognized membership boundaries
A large social category whose members may never interact directly
Any collection of people who happen to be in the same place
A formal organization defined by written rules and elected officers
16. Members enjoy being together, feel attached to the group, and are motivated to remain part of it. Which group property does this most directly describe?
Status differentiation
Role ambiguity
Social comparison
Group cohesion