PSYCH SOC

Question 1

in studies with bystander intervention - which variable is found to be positively correlated with time it takes for individual to offer help in case of emergency

Answer 1

number of bystanders who witness emergency

Question 2

person who comes late at a meeting - which explanation makes sense for someone who have self serving bias - what attribute

Answer 2

situational variable

Question 3

ppl who experience self serving bias atrribute their own nehative behaviours to

Answer 3

situational variables

Question 4

ex of stable trait (actor/observer) bias

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intellect - see if the oberver will attribute the actor perfromace to intellect and the actor thinking their own success is beacuse of intellect

Question 5

a public health video designed to promote flu shots shows a physician from a prestigious instituition delivering facts about how viruses are spread - the video also features data on how viruses can expose the body to serious illness - what manipulating variables of attitude do they use

Answer 5

peripheral route to perusasion (prestige) central route to persuasion (disease), source characteristics (mentionign dr affiliation with prestigious instituition)

Question 6

rat receives foor for pressing lever, in variable ratio schedule - what is the response

Answer 6

highest, response rate, with no predicatble pauses

Question 7

conflict between superego and the id leads to

Answer 7

unconscious conflict

Question 8

the ego tends to reduce conflict through

Answer 8

defence mechanisms – unconscious conflict is like the drive - want to reduce it

Question 9

this model integrates the influence of biological predispostions and the environemnt (person has gentic with depression, and unemployment acted as trigger)

Answer 9

diathesis stress model

Question 10

the DV in a study of polarization is most likely to each participant’s

Answer 10

attitude toward a topic

Question 11

which experiment procedure is most likely to results in learned helplessness

Answer 11

uncontrollable exposure to aversive stimulus - giving person chock they cant escape (independantly of the intensity of the punishment)

Question 12

regular breathing and slow brain waves what stage

Answer 12

3

Question 13

when response results in escape from aversive stimulus its known as

Answer 13

negative reinforcement – rat in box presented with a tone followed by electric shock, it jump over barrier to other side of the box where no shock

Question 14

changes in brain size as a function of environmental influences (socialization) is an example of

Answer 14

neural plasticity

Question 15

explaining behaviour through self concept and incongruence is consisted with what perspective

Answer 15

humanistic

Question 16

participant is asked to solve a easy puzzle in front of others (easy task

Answer 16

social facilitation (EASY/MANAGEABLE TASK)

Question 17

when person does a challenigng task infornt of audience this will increase ______beyond optimal and interfere with ________

Answer 17

arousal, performance

Question 18

the IV of a memory study that tests the encoding specificity effect is most likely

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the location of encoding and retrieval

Question 19

___________ this refers to enhanced memory when testing takes place under the same conditions as learning

Answer 19

encoding specifcity

Question 20

hypothetical reasoning is mastered in what piaget stage

Answer 20

formal operational

Question 21

patient has depression, and blaes failure on personal incompetence, therapist tried to change pateint thinking by suggesting may be bc lack of effort - what are they trying to change

Answer 21

locus of control

Question 22

researcher wants to assess siz of pateint brain ventricles what scan

Answer 22

CAT (STRUCTURE OF BRAIN

Question 23

if graph shows both a recency and primacy effect, when does recall ahppen

Answer 23

immedidatly after when final items are still in short term

Question 24

when rsearcher changes the hue after the infant stops responding to the og stimulus example of

Answer 24

habituation

Question 25

which of the following is a binocular depth cue

Answer 25

retinal disparity - require input from both retinas

Question 26

this is a problem that is described in medial terminology and treated by medical professionals

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medicalization

Question 27

health disparity refers to difference in health outcomes that is related to _____

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social or economic factors - association bw factor like SES and disease indicate potential influence of social inequality - ex. higher SES have lower chance of stroke

Question 28

young athlete evalutes own bhaviours by compar to professonal - what group are the professonal as to the young ones

Answer 28

reference group

Question 29

role conflict

Answer 29

stress ppl feel when confronted with incompatiable role expecation acorss different jobs/social statuses

Question 30

ethnicity classifies by _____ and race classifies as ______

Answer 30

culture, physical characteristics

Question 31

ethnocentrisim assumes _________ and cultural relativism describes awareness of _____

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universla norms - look through own beliefs, and culture/diversity

Question 32

stigma is derived from which perspective

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symbolic interactionist

Question 33

social stigam call attentio to how

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different group or ppl face social disapporval - attribute that is devalued** the social behaviour is like behaviour or identity or other attrubute seen as deviant

Question 34

anomie is what perspective

Answer 34

functionalist

Question 35

which concept refers to feeling of social disconnetion that result is weak bonds and rapid changing norms

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anomie – alientation feel when socia norms or binds weal - without attachment to society we feel purposelessness and aimless

Question 36

periods of rapid social change are often associated with

Answer 36

anomie

Question 37

concept wehn product of social interaction emerging out of the way an individual perceives othes to view them

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looking glass self

Question 38

this _____ assumes that individual behaviour will be based on imolict analysis of the costs and benefits of actions

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rationalist choice perspective

Question 39

which theory does this follow: reduce cost of fruit and veggies while inc the cost of proccessed foods

Answer 39

rationalsit choice - ppl more inclided to buy healthier food

Question 40

the fact that men are more liekly to tske part in injury or risk tasks is bc of

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social or culturally factors - socially constructed

Question 41

_____ this theory expalins social phenmema in terms of meaning they hold when ppl interact with eachother ex. ppl want to soke bacause faciltiaes social connection

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symbolic interactionsim

Question 42

concept of social suggests that social netoworks provide

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valuable resource

Question 43

social capital emphasizes more of the ______ resources and social support tends to focus more on ______ resources

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tangible, emotional

Question 44

____ this theory is a perspective on deviance that suggests labels get applied to certain groups or people regardless of specific behaviour

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labelling (calls attention to how stereotypes can have in determining how individuals are perceived)

Question 45

which sociological theory best explains the existence of cross cultral differences in how mental health disorders are classified

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social constructionaims - thsi theory presumes ideas (health disease, knowledge) created thr historical processess that are socailly dfined and culturally distinct

Question 46

theory based on which concept best explain how economic development leads to changes in societys fertility and mortality rates

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demo transtion

Question 47

research taking perspective of social epidemiology is most likely to focus on

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social determinants of health

Question 48

ethical research requires that all particiaptns _____ particpate in stuyd

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voluntatelity - cant withdraw any time

Question 49

gov assistance as a measure of SES raises the issue of

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validity - not poper or accurae measuremet of income

Question 50

a study is conducted which researcher observe how doctors deal with role strain when interact with pts

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ethnographic - observing social interactions

Question 51

Cross-sectional studies are observational studies t

Answer 51

hat analyze data from a population at a single point in time.