Question 1

The measure of the amount of random sampling error in a survey's result is known as ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  r
B)  the p-value
C)  the correlation coefficient
D)  the margin of errorE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 2

The main weakness with correlational research (as opposed to experimental research)  is that ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  researchers cannot conduct tests of statistical significance
B)  researchers cannot draw conclusions about cause and effect
C)  correlational research tends to have low external validity
D)  correlational research tends to be low in mundane realismE) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 3

True experiments have two key features that make them different from other studies.First, in a true experiment, the researcher manipulates (varies)  one or more independent variables.Second, the researcher makes use of _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  statistical testing
B)  random assignment
C)  interactions
D)  primingE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 4

Social psychologists usually derive their hypotheses from existing theories.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

During the era in which social psychology was emerging as a discipline, it was caught between two opposing camps: behaviourism and Freudian psychoanalysis.Explain how social psychology did not fit neatly into either of those camps, and how it ultimately integrated features from both as it emerged as an independent field.

Accepted Answer

a.Behaviourism sought to explain all hum...

Question 6

Your textbook and the study of social psychology is based on the assumption that ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  it is important to understand how to manipulate and control behaviour
B)  there are far more cultural differences than there are similarities
C)  intraindividual variability far exceeds interindividual variability
D)  human nature has some basic, universal featuresE) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 7

In social psychology, the 'ABC triad' consists of ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  attitudes, beliefs and commitments
B)  ambiances, biology, and culture
C)  affects, behaviours and cognitions
D)  attributions, boundaries, and correctionsE) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 8

Which of the following branches of psychology is MOST closely affiliated with social psychology?

Accepted Answer

A)  developmental psychology
B)  clinical psychology
C)  personality psychology
D)  biological psychologyE) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 9

According to the textbook, is most social psychological research high in external validity? Why or why not? How big of a problem is cultural relativity for social psychology as a field, and what steps are researchers taking to address it?

Accepted Answer

Most research in social psychology is ex...

Question 10

In which of the following situations would Xolile be MOST likely to experience reactance?

Accepted Answer

A)  He is out on a first date with an attractive person and trying to make a good impression.
B)  He comes home and finds his older brother reading his journal - where he has written deep, dark secrets that he does not want anyone to see.
C)  He sleeps through an important job interview, and only has himself to blame.
D)  He finds out that his mother has cancer, but that she has been hiding it from him for several years because she didn't want him to worry about her.E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 11

When a researcher conducts an experiment and is fairly certain that changes in the independent variable caused changes in the dependent variable, that experiment is said to be high in ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  construct validity
B)  construct validity of the effect
C)  internal validity
D)  external validityE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 12

When attempting to explain a person's behaviour, what do social psychologists tend to assess first?

Accepted Answer

A)  The person's unconscious motivations
B)  The person's personality
C)  The person's situation
D)  The person's childhoodE) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 13

A(n)  ____ is someone who works for a researcher by serving as an 'actor' in the research (e.g., pretending to be another research participant, and being mean to other research participants in order to see how participants respond to meanness) .

Accepted Answer

A)  confederate
B)  allied respondent
C)  infiltrator
D)  behaviouristE) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 14

As a rule, social psychologists are MOST interested in ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  normal adult human beings
B)  severe mental illness
C)  normal childhood development
D)  diagnoses in abnormal behaviourE) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 15

Suppose that you are a research participant in a laboratory study that is looking at fear and social support.The researcher shows you an extremely scary movie and then asks you whether you feel like talking to anyone (and if so, who)  once the movie is over.Although you are in a laboratory setting the whole time, which does not resemble 'real life' at all, you become engrossed in the procedures of the study and almost forget that you are in a study.Thus, in your experience, this study is ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  low in experimental realism and low in mundane realism
B)  low in experimental realism and high in mundane realism
C)  high in experimental realism and low in mundane realism
D)  high in experimental realism and high in mundane realismE) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 16

Today, both funded and unfunded studies conducted at universities in the USA must first obtain ____ approval.

Accepted Answer

A)  ABPP
B)  IRB
C)  APA
D)  ERBE) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 17

Suppose that you are conducting an experiment to see whether receiving negative feedback from an authority figure will increase eating behaviour.After writing an essay, half of your research participants are given negative feedback from a professor, and half are given encouraging feedback.All participants are then placed in a room with a large container of biscuits and their eating behaviour is observed.In this study, an operational definition for the dependent variable might be ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  whether participants received critical or encouraging feedback
B)  the number of words in each participant's essay
C)  the number of biscuits each participant ate
D)  how many minutes the professor spent giving each participant feedbackE) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 18

The purposes of the oral or written statement participants receive at the end of a psychological study include _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  explaining to them what informed consent actually is
B)  ensuring that they receive appropriate compensation
C)  reducing or eliminating harm caused by their participation
D)  allowing them to refuse to allow their data to be usedE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 19

After participants have been deliberately deceived in an experiment, ethical standards require that they be ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  compensated
B)  debriefed
C)  allowed to withdraw consent
D)  permitted to confront the experimenterE) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 20

Describe the ABC triad and give examples of each component with respect to the experience of falling in love.

Accepted Answer

a.Affect: The A in the triad stands for ...

Exam 1: The Mission and the Method

After participants have been deliberately deceived in an experiment, ethical standards require that they be ____.

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified
a.Behaviourism sought to explain all hum...
View Answer

Social psychologists usually derive their hypotheses from existing theories.

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

The main weakness with correlational research (as opposed to experimental research) is that ____.

Correct Answer
verified

True experiments have two key features that make them different from other studies.First, in a true experiment, the researcher manipulates (varies) one or more independent variables.Second, the researcher makes use of _____.

Correct Answer
verified

The measure of the amount of random sampling error in a survey's result is known as ____.

Correct Answer
verified

Your textbook and the study of social psychology is based on the assumption that ____.

Correct Answer
verified

A(n) ____ is someone who works for a researcher by serving as an 'actor' in the research (e.g., pretending to be another research participant, and being mean to other research participants in order to see how participants respond to meanness) .

Correct Answer
verified

The purposes of the oral or written statement participants receive at the end of a psychological study include _____.

Correct Answer
verified

As a rule, social psychologists are MOST interested in ____.

Correct Answer
verified

Which of the following branches of psychology is MOST closely affiliated with social psychology?

Correct Answer
verified

Describe the ABC triad and give examples of each component with respect to the experience of falling in love.

Correct Answer
verified
a.Affect: The A in the triad stands for ...
View Answer

When attempting to explain a person's behaviour, what do social psychologists tend to assess first?

Correct Answer
verified

According to the textbook, is most social psychological research high in external validity? Why or why not? How big of a problem is cultural relativity for social psychology as a field, and what steps are researchers taking to address it?

Correct Answer
verified
Most research in social psychology is ex...
View Answer

In social psychology, the 'ABC triad' consists of ____.

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

In which of the following situations would Xolile be MOST likely to experience reactance?

Correct Answer
verified

When a researcher conducts an experiment and is fairly certain that changes in the independent variable caused changes in the dependent variable, that experiment is said to be high in ____.

Correct Answer
verified

Today, both funded and unfunded studies conducted at universities in the USA must first obtain ____ approval.

Correct Answer
verified

Exam 1: The Mission and the Method

After participants have been deliberately deceived in an experiment, ethical standards require that they be ____.

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

Correct Answerverifieda.Behaviourism sought to explain all hum...View AnswerShow Answer

Social psychologists usually derive their hypotheses from existing theories.

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

The main weakness with correlational research (as opposed to experimental research) is that ____.

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

True experiments have two key features that make them different from other studies.First, in a true experiment, the researcher manipulates (varies) one or more independent variables.Second, the researcher makes use of _____.

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

The measure of the amount of random sampling error in a survey's result is known as ____.

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

Your textbook and the study of social psychology is based on the assumption that ____.

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

A(n) ____ is someone who works for a researcher by serving as an 'actor' in the research (e.g., pretending to be another research participant, and being mean to other research participants in order to see how participants respond to meanness) .

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

The purposes of the oral or written statement participants receive at the end of a psychological study include _____.

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

As a rule, social psychologists are MOST interested in ____.

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

Which of the following branches of psychology is MOST closely affiliated with social psychology?

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

Describe the ABC triad and give examples of each component with respect to the experience of falling in love.

Correct Answerverifieda.Affect: The A in the triad stands for ...View AnswerShow Answer

When attempting to explain a person's behaviour, what do social psychologists tend to assess first?

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

According to the textbook, is most social psychological research high in external validity? Why or why not? How big of a problem is cultural relativity for social psychology as a field, and what steps are researchers taking to address it?

Correct AnswerverifiedMost research in social psychology is ex...View AnswerShow Answer

In social psychology, the 'ABC triad' consists of ____.

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

In which of the following situations would Xolile be MOST likely to experience reactance?

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

When a researcher conducts an experiment and is fairly certain that changes in the independent variable caused changes in the dependent variable, that experiment is said to be high in ____.

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

Today, both funded and unfunded studies conducted at universities in the USA must first obtain ____ approval.

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified
a.Behaviourism sought to explain all hum...
View Answer

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified
a.Affect: The A in the triad stands for ...
View Answer

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified
Most research in social psychology is ex...
View Answer

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified