Test 1 Flashcards
In the introduction to Chapter 1, you read about a number of social phenomena: a young man broadcast his suicide live online; a father and son disagreed on the attractiveness of the same fraternity; and more than 800 people committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. What do these examples have in common? They.
reveal the power of social influence
The scientific study of the way in which people’s thoughs, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people is the definition of
Social Pyschology
Which of the following is an example of social influence?
You feel guilty because you lied to your trusting professor about your assignment.
Which of the following is an example of a direct persuasion attempt?
A bully threatens Billy and steals his lunch money.
After the mass suicides related to the cults at Jonestown, people tended to blame the victims and accuse them of being psychologically unstable or deranged. Social psychologists are more likely to explain these mass suicides as being due to
The social influence of cult leaders.
Spinoza (1663) proposed that the idea that when you love someone whom you used to hate, you
love him or her more strongly that if hatred had not preceded the love
the author of the textbook explains that controversy of whether viewing pornography makes people prone to sexual violence of not. How are such controversies resolved in the field of social psychology? By using
Research Method
If a scientist believes that another person’s theory is wrong, the best approach for the scientist to take is to
design a study making specific predictions to test the alternate explanation.
When social psychologists observe something in everyday life that is interesting, how is such information useful in research?
It can stimulate research to develop a Hypothesis and design studies to test it.
During the 1990s, the MTV program The Real World aired, and currently there are several “reality TV shows” in which cameras record the activities of people living together. These shows are most line ________ research in social psychology
Observational- The technique whereby a researcher observes people and systematically records measurements or impressions of their behavior.
After a controversial play, referees meet in the middle of the field to discuss what each saw and explain his/her ruling before coming to a final decision. The most closely resembles which of the following?
inter-judge reliability- The level of agreement between two or more people who independently observe and code a set of data; by showing that two or ore judges independently come up with the same observation, researchers ensure that the observations are not the subjective, distorted impressions of one individual.
Why are social psychologists concerned with the issue of interudge reliability?
Independent agreement reduces the possibility of bias or distortion
A researcher wants to see if there is a relationship between a person’s birth order and his or her leadership ability. The best method of answering this question would be
Correlational Method- The technique whereby two or more variables are systematically measured and the relationship between them (i.e., how much one can predict from the other) is assessed.
Tony has been doing research on age and aggression. He has discovered that the older a person gets, the less likely he or she is to aggress against another person. What kind of relationship best describes Tony’s findings?
Negative Correlation - means that increases in the value of one variable are associated with decreases in the value of the other.
Which of the following Best describes the term Sample?
a) The group of people about whom the results of a study are intended to generalize
b) a group of people who are representative of the population as a whole
c) The people actually measured in a study
d) A small group of people used to pilot test a study
C) The people actually measured in a study
