Social Psychology - Quiz #1 Flashcards
A psychiatrist tells you that she is interested in determining if the condition of individuals who are clinically depressed improves w/ either 20 or 40 milligrams of Prozac. She decides to administer 20 milligrams to a random half of her clients, and 40 milligrams to the other half. She finds that after six months, the clients who took 40 milligrams of Prozac are significantly less depressed than those clients who took 20 milligrams of Prozac. Which type of study did the psychiatrist conduct?
A. Experimental Research
B. Controlled Research
C. Hypothetical Research
D. Correctional Research
A. Experimental Research
Variable X is correlated with Variable Y. Which of the following could explain this correlation?
A. X causes Y
B. Y causes X
C. A third variable causes or influences both X and Y.
D. All of these are possible explanations.
D. All of these are possible explanations.
Your psychology professor tells you that she is collecting data on the amount that students study and their grades (i.e., she is asking each student to report how many hours he/she studies each week, so that she can determine if there is a relationship between hours spent studying and grades). Which type of research is this?
A. Experimental Research
B. Controlled Research
C. Correlational Research
D. Hypothetical Research
C. Correlational Research
The variable being measured in an experiment, so called because it may depend on manipulations of another variable, is called the ___________ variable.
A. Dependent
B. Independent
C. Experimental
D. Control
A. Dependent
The study of naturally occurring relationships among variables is referred to as
A. Experimental Research
B. Field Research
C. Laboratory Research
D. Correlational Research
D. Correlational Research
After seeing a billboard for the lottery, you imagine a life of the rich and famous for yourself. This future self-schema you imagine is an example of a/an
A. Eventual Self
B. Possible Self
C. Hoped-for self
D. Feared Self
B. Possible Self
When asked who you think will win the next presidential election, you reply that you do not know. However, after the election results are reported, you claim that it was obvious all along. This is an example of the
A. Prediction Bias
B. Hindsight Bias
C. Retrospective Bias
D. Information Bias
B. Hindsight Bias
The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next is referred to as
A. Social Representations
B. Nationality
C. Race
D. Culture
D. Culture
Social Psychology is defined as the scientific study of how people
A. conform, help, and form attitudes about one another
B. think about, influence, and relate to one another
C. manipulate, use, and betray one another
D. motivate, persuade, and hurt one another
B. think about, influence, and relate to one another
Research indicates that survey results often depend on the
A. gender of the surveyor
B. gender of the respondent
C. number of questions asked
D. wording and order of the questions
D. wording and order of the questions
The experimental factor that a researcher that a researcher manipulates in a study is called the ________ variables.
A. Dependent
B. Independent
C. Control
D. Wording and order of the questions.
B. Independent
The major purpose of random assignment in an experiment is to
A. control the independent
B. maximize the differences between groups
C. minimize the differences between groups
D. control the dependent variable
C. minimize the differences between groups
You are participating in a psychology research experiment and the researcher invites you to return after the experiment to learn more about it to explore your feelings about it. This is called
A. Demand Characterization
B. Debriefing
C. Informed Consent
D. Experiment Framing
B. Debriefing
People with high self-esteem and narcissism are _____.
A. no different from those that have only high self-esteem
B. focused on having positive relationships
C. no different from those with low self-esteem
D. more aggressive
D. more aggressive
An experimenter exposed participants to different room temperatures to determine their effects on aggression. Aggression was the
A. control variable
B. independent variable
C. confounding variable
D. dependent variable
D. dependent variable
The planning fallacy is the tendency to
A. underestimate how long a task will take
B. overestimate how long a task will take
C. not male plans
D. Predict accurately how long a task will take
A. underestimate how long a task will take
A person’s answer to the question “Who Am I” comprises his or her
A. self-schema
B. self-esteem
C. self-concept
D. personality
C. self-concept
When participating in a psychology research experiment , you are told that the purposes of the study is to find out if tall people are more prejudiced than short people. Because you want to behave accordingly, you agree with questions on a survey of prejudice more so than you would otherwise. Your behavior in this study is a result of
A. your true attitudes
B. the demand characteristics of the experiment
C. the sampling method of the experiment
D. your repressed attitudes
B. the demand characteristics of the experiment
Your decision to call someone a “terrorist” rather than a “freedom fighter” depends on your view of the cause. This is an example of how values can influence not only social psychology, but also
A. everyday language
B. intuitions
C. actions
D. emotions
A. everyday language
________ is an ethical principle requiring that research participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate.
A. A Demand Characteristic
B. Deception
C. Mundane Realism
D. Informed Consent
D. Informed Consent
You prefer that professors post exam scores (by identification number), rather than returning them individually. It makes you feel better to see how you did in comparison to other students. This is an example of what social psychology phenomenon?
A. Social Ratings
B. Social Rank
C. Social Contrast
D. Social Comparison
D. Social Comparison
What is NOT true about how values affect social psychology?
A. Values influence the topics that are researched
B. Social psychologists are very interested in studying values
C. Social psychology research shows us what to value
D. The values that people hold influence those entering the field of study
C. Social psychology research shows us what to value
The best statement about objective reality is
A. that reality is filtered by our values and beliefs
B. that it exists
C. that it does not exist
D. that we can all agree on an objective reality.
A. that reality is filtered by our values and beliefs
Theories help social psychologists ____ their observations and ______ their hypotheses.
A. organize; test
B. objectify; refute
C. refute; objectify
D. test; organize
B. objectify; refute
