Social Psych Quiz 1 – Flashcards

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In the 1950s and 1960s, mainstream psychology was divided between ___.
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Behavioralism and Freudian Psychoanalysis
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In social psychology, researchers typically test hypotheses using the ___ confidence level.
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95%
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The two defining features of an experiment are control and random assignment.
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True.
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Working as a research assistant and pretend to be part of the study (seizures). What are you?
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Confederate.
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In a ___, the researcher is able to manipulate an independent variable but NOT able to use random assignment.
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quasi-experiment
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How has the textbook described the historical relationship between clinical psychology and social psychology?
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The two fields have historically exchanged ideas and viewpoints.
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Most social psychologists ___.
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Study college students but are interested in normal adults in general.
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Which of the following research designs allows researchers the MOST control over the variables they are studying?
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Laboratory experiments
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A correlation coefficient communicates two pieces of information about the relationship between two variables: The ___ communicates the direction of the relationship, and the ___ communicates the strength of the relationship.
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sign; value
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How are social psychologists generally similar to behaviorists?
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They both tend to favor experiments and the scientific method.
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Social psychology was in existence as a field roughly 100 years before Freudian psychoanalysis.
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False.
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Martin believes his blue coat is warmer than his red coat. Ted thinks that he might wan to have kids sometime in the next few years. Etc. These are examples of
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Cognitions.
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Study about whether gender differences influence suicide. Only way to study this is to conduct:
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correlational research looking at archival data
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As discussed in the textbook, the main weakness with correlational research (as opposed to experimental research) is that the researcher cannot draw conclusions about ______.
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changes in one variable causing changes in the other variable. (...?)
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Which of the following would be the BEST operational definition for tiredness?
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The number of hours since one has last slept...? NOT Irritability, etc.
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When a researcher conducts an experiment and is fairly certain that changes in the independent variable cause changes in the dependent variable, that experiment is said to be high in ___.
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internal validity.
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While social psychologists are interested in a wide variety of topics, three themes that have become increasingly important during the last 30 years are ___.
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Social cognition, biological influences on behavior, and the self.
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Researchers tend to use quasi-experimental research designs when they are able to manipulate an independent variable but NOT able to ___.
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use random assignment.
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When social psychologist Kurt Lewin said that "there is nothing so practical as a good theory," he meant that ___.
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although they may seem impractical, theories can be very important in helping to stimulate practical ideas and practical research
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Social psychologists routinely test research hypotheses using the .05 level of significance. This means that so-called "significant" findings are actually "flukes" about ___ of the time.
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5%
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Dr. Taylor research on effect of new drug. Sample is 100 US adults. If he uses random assignment, it means that ___.
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each research participant has an equal chance of being assigned to each level of the independent variable (placebo vs drug group)
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Most research in social psychology is based on Western European and North American samples, though some research has also been conducted in other areas of the world. Based on what is known to date, it appears to be reasonably safe to generalize social psychological research findings to the vast majority of ___.
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people living in Western nations
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Replication is an important part of ___.
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the self-correcting nature of science.
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Researchers often attempt to design studies that will be high in both experimental realism and mundane realism. However, ___.
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experimental realism is generally considered to be far more important
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The construct "need for cognition" measures how much a person likes to think deeply, evaluate arguments, and analyze ideas. Let us assume that people who are confident about their self-worth also have a higher "need for cognition." Therefore, one would expect "need for cognition" to correlate positively with "self esteem." A study finding this to be the case MOST illustrates ___ validity.
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convergent
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In recent years, what has emerged as an important subfield of social psychology that explores the ways in which people think about social situations?
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NOT cognitive sociology
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When attempting to explain a person's behavior, what do social psychologists tend to assess first?
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The person's situation
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Zhao can't make people be in poverty to see if they'll be liberal, so he has to
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take a correlational approach
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With which of the following social sciences has social psychology had the LEAST interaction until recently?
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History
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Dr. Gem studies individual differences in introversion. Dr. Gem is MOST likely a ___ psychologist
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personality
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Given Ringlemann's early research looking at group size and individual effort, how do they try in small vs. big groups?
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Try harder in small groups
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Study on pet ownership effect on empathy, but no measures of empathy to be found! Your research is low in
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Construct validity of the effect
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The scientific method used by social psychologists is ___
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conceptually the same as the scientific method used by clinical psychologists, biologists, and chemists
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Researchers tend to use quasi-experimental research designs when they are able to manipulate an independent variable but NOT able to ___
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use random assignment
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Which of the following would constitute the BEST random sample of a university population
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The students whose names were drawn from a list of all students enrolled in classes, a sample representing 30% of the university population
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Roger has negative stereotypes about women. What would a social psychologist ask him?
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Media/interaction with women would have reinforced the stereotypes? NOT mom issues
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In the history of psychology and social psychology, the late 1800s and early 1900s marked ___
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the very first social psychological experiments
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If a study is high in external validity, then ___
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the findings are likely to generalize to other people and other settings
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What do we call the field that combines the interests of social and biological psychology?
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Social neuroscience
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The top research journals in social psychology have substantial overlap, content-wise, with which of the following?
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Personality psychology
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According to the textbook, what is one major reason people study social psychology?
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It is fun and interesting, and can help make the world a better place
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Replication refers to ___
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repeating an experiment to see if the same results can be obtained
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Social psychologists are generally similar to Freudian psychoanalysts in that they both ___.
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have an interest in thoughts and feelings as well as behaviors
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The social psychological theory known as "social exchange theory" is based MOST obviously on which of the following other social sciences?
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Economics
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Which of the following fields is MOST concerned with understanding different human cultures?
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Anthropology
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The term "reactance" is used to refer to the tendency for people to ___
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have an unpleasant emotional response when others are trying to restrict their freedom
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Although sociologists and social psychologists are both interested in group behavior, sociologists tend to focus on ___, whereas social psychologists tend to focus on ___
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the group as a single unit; individual members within the group
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Most social psychologists perform research by ___
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conducting experiments
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Using more than one exemplar of a stimulus (such as more than one violent video game in a study) is known as ___
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factorial design
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If an experiment does NOT get participants psychologically involved and engaged, even though the setting of the experiment closely resembles the real world physically, then the experiment would be said to be ___.
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low in experimental realism, but high in mundane realism
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If a researcher conducts an experiment in which the independent variable is poorly defined (poor operational definition), then the experiment can be said to have ___
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low construct validity of the cause
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In social psychology, researchers typically test hypotheses using the ___ confidence level
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95%
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Social psychology focuses especially on the power of ___
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situations
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Based on early research by Norman Triplett, we should expect that children who work on math problems alone will ___ than children who work on math problems side by side with their classmates
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work more slowly
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Correlation coefficients are statistics used to denote
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the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables
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True experiments have two key features that make them different from other studies. First, in a true experiment, the researcher manipulates one or more independent variables. Second, the researcher makes use of ___
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random assignment
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Researcher is all, "tell me about your sex life" and you get all "ughhhh I don't like you," this is an example of ___
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reactance
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Social psychology has been LEAST influenced by the branch of psychology known as ___ psychology until recently
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developmental
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If an experiment gets participants psychologically involved and engaged, but the setting does not resemble the real world, then the experiment would be said to be ___
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high in experimental realism and low in mundane realism
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Who proposed the idea that behavior is a function of both the person and the situation in the first half of the 20th century?
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Kurt Lewin
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Random assignment is one of the defining features of correlational research
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false
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What do we call the field that combines the interests of social and biological psychology?
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social neuroscience
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The first social psychological experiments and the publication of the first book to bear the title Social Psychology both occurred around ___
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1900
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Ringlemann & tug-of-war. As size of group increases, ___
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individual effort decreases
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Dr. Dude is researching young children to examine the effect of the exposure to different cultural groups on the development of empathy. The independent variable in this research is ___
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exposure to different cultural groups
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If you can think of a good hypothesis, but no good operational definitions for your variables, your research might be low in
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construct validity
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Dr. Trojan is a researcher studying methods for increasing condom usage among sexually active teens. He's BEST described as a(n) ___
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applied researcher
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During the first half of the 20th century, who argued that attitudes were the most important and useful concept in social psychology?
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Gordon Allport
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When did social psychology begin to come into its own as a field?
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1950s and 60s
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The term "experimental realism" refers to whether the physical setting of a research study resembles the "real world"
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false
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Social psychology primarily relies on the experimental method
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true!
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Compared to laboratory experiments, field experiments tend to be ___
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Not high in both :( low in internal and high in external?
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Social psychologists typically derive ___ based on ___
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NOT hypotheses, observations :(
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Reliability is to ___ as validity is to ___
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consistency; measuring what something claims to measure
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Which of the following topics would a cognitive psychologist be MOST likely to study?
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How people learn to memorize complex musical compositions
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Social psychology is the study of
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how our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are affected by other people
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Applied researchers are the social scientists who
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focus on concrete problems--literacy rates/water conservation
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