Module 4 Quiz Flashcards
Imagine that four UBC professors get together to decide how to better meet the needs of students. Dr. Norton has experience teaching 1st years and 3nd years, Dr. Carney and Dr. Cuddy both have experience teaching 2nd years and 3rd years, and Dr. Cho has experience teaching students at all levels. Based on research covered in this module, whose needs will be likely to get discussed the most?
A) 1st years
B) 2nd years
C) 3rd years
D) All students’ needs will be discussed equally.
C) 3rd years
When in-person classes first resumed after the pandemic, we formed 308 teams based on mask-related preferences. So, some teams consisted entirely of people who wanted to be part of a group where everyone would wear masks (“masked teams”), while other teams consisted entirely of people where no one wanted to wear a mask (“unmasked teams”). We asked everyone in the class to rate their attitudes toward wearing masks on the first and last day of class. Let’s say we found that people on “masked teams” exhibited an increase in their attitudes about the value of wearing masks, while those on the unmasked teams exhibited a decrease. This finding would be most consistent with what other study or hypothetical example you learned about this week?
A) The study in which Larson (1998) asked physicians to diagnose medical cases.
B) The hypothetical example in which Brad, Seth, Tom, and Harry were planning to open a restaurant together.
C) The hypothetical example in which 308 teams were trying to solve an anagram (e.g., AISYR).
D) The hypothetical example in which friends were trying to decide whether to go to Whistler or Tofino.
D) The hypothetical example in which friends were trying to decide whether to go to Whistler or Tofino.
Let’s say that once your team starts working on your term paper, each of you has a very different idea about the overall direction to take in the paper. Which of the following recommendations would Joaquin Navajas, Mariano Sigman, and their colleagues be most likely to offer based on their 2018 research?
A) Each team member should send their independent ideas to each other via email and vote on the best one (without engaging in any discussion, so as to avoid conformity pressure).
B) The team should ask three of their classmates to listen to each team member give a 1-minute presentation on their idea, and then the classmates should vote on the best idea (without engaging in any discussion, so as to avoid conformity pressure).
C) The team should spend time together discussing each member’s ideas before making a decision about the best one to pursue.
D) None of the above; the authors argue that their insights should not be applied to complex judgmental tasks (like choosing a term paper topic) because they only studied simpler, intellective tasks (e.g., height of the Eiffel tower).
C) The team should spend time together discussing each member’s ideas before making a decision about the best one to pursue.
An important theme of this course is that science is a conversation; in reading the articles for this course, you should notice how scientists use past research as a “springboard” to launch their own research idea. That is, in a typical scientific article, the authors identify what past research has shown AND what this past work has overlooked or failed to consider, providing the springboard for their own study. What gap in previous research did Navajas et al (2018) use as a key springboard for the study they conducted at TEDx in Buenos Aires, which you read about this week?
A) Previous studies asked participants to answer difficult moral questions that did not have a clear answer, rather than asking them factual questions with a clear right answer (e.g., height of the Eiffel tower).
B) Previous studies have primarily been conducted in North America, but group decision-making has generally not been studied in other cultural contexts, such as Argentina.
C) Previous studies examined relatively small “crowds,” rather than examining the responses of thousands of people at a major live event.
D) Previous studies provided participants with each other’s answers, but generally did not give them an opportunity to discuss each other’s answers.
E) Both a and b
D) Previous studies provided participants with each other’s answers, but generally did not give them an opportunity to discuss each other’s answers.
Avni just moved to Vancouver and started a new job. She’s heard that her boss Carina is very businesslike and doesn’t like to waste time getting to know employees. So, during her first meeting with Carina, Avni doesn’t share anything about herself or her family, and when Carina asks how she and her family are liking Vancouver, Avni gives a very brief answer and immediately asks a question about the job. So, Carina doesn’t ask any more questions about Avni’s personal life for the rest of the meeting. Which of the following studies is most relevant to understanding Carina’s behavior during the meeting?
A) Tversky & Kahneman’s study on judgements of engineers vs. lawyers
B) Larson’s study in which physicians were asked to diagnose medical cases
C) Rosenthal’s study in which teachers were told some students would bloom
D) Kruger’s Study 1 in which Cornell students were asked to send both a sarcastic and non-sarcastic email
E) Navajas’ study in which TEDx attendees answered general knowledge questions by themselves and with others.
C) Rosenthal’s study in which teachers were told some students would bloom
