Question 1

Social desirability bias is defined as

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A)   the desire to be involved in social psychological research.
B)   a tendency of research participants to say what they believe is appropriate.
C)   the bias of a researcher to only report results that are consistent with his or her hypothesis.
D)   a sample that does not accurately reflect the composition of the population.

Question 2

A 3-year-old girl watches an older boy grab candy away from his younger brother and eat it happily.According to the ________ perspective discussed in your text,the little girl may now start to grab desirable things away from other children.

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A)   behavioral emulation
B)   social learning
C)   indirect reinforcement
D)   response acquisition

Question 3

Which of the following is an advantage of conducting a case study like the Schaller (1997) study of Kurt Cobain discussed in your text?

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A)   They allow the researcher to make strong cause-and-effect statements.
B)   They are generalizable to other persons, situations, and times.
C)   They are not susceptible to observer bias.
D)   They are rich sources of hypotheses for the causes of behavior.

Question 4

In an experiment on the effects of room color on mood,the participants in the pink room condition are asked to read a boring computer manual,while the participants in the bright blue room are asked to read a section from a romance novel.Their mood is then measured.This study lacks ________ because of ________.

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A)   generalizability; a systematic characteristic
B)   external validity; the independent variable
C)   generalizability; demand characteristics
D)   internal validity; a confound

Question 5

Say you are a researcher interested in studying the effects of drinking Gatorade or plain water on college student performance on a four-hour math test.Describe how you would conduct this experiment.What is the independent variable? The dependent variable? How would you decide who drinks Gatorade and who drinks water? Is deception appropriate here,and if so,what deception would you use and why?

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The independent variable would be type o...

Question 6

To study the effects of aging,Professor Drake compares the reaction times of 60-year-olds with those of 30-year-olds.She tests all younger subjects in the morning,and all older subjects in the afternoon.She concludes that aging causes a decline in the speed of responses.This study lacks ________ because of potential ________.

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A)   external validity; demand characteristics
B)   external validity; confounds
C)   internal validity; demand characteristics
D)   internal validity; confounds

Question 7

All of the following are fundamental social motives mentioned in the text EXCEPT

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A)   to defend ourselves and those we value.
B)   to establish social ties.
C)   to reward our friends and punish our enemies.
D)   to understand ourselves and others.

Question 8

A social psychologist explains that men are more likely to be aggressive than women because the norms of society are that men should be the "aggressive" sex.This view is most closely associated with the

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A)   sociocultural perspective.
B)   evolutionary perspective.
C)   social cognitive perspective.
D)   social learning perspective.

Question 9

As discussed in your text,if you can generalize the results of an experiment to other circumstances,the experiment is said to

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A)   have external validity.
B)   have construct integrity.
C)   be reliable.
D)   have internal validity.

Question 10

All of the following are potential problems with case studies EXCEPT

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A)   results of case studies are hard to generalize.
B)   hypotheses of experimenters can often bias their analysis of a person's life.
C)   cause and effect relationships are hard to establish.
D)   case studies often contain too much information about a person.

Question 11

Which of the following is described in your text as a way in which persons and situations interact?

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A)   Situations choose people.
B)   Situations change people.
C)   People change their situations.
D)   all of the above

Question 12

Which of the following is the main advantage of experiments?

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A)   The researcher can make causal statements.
B)   The research is ecologically valid.
C)   The findings generalize to other situations.
D)   They allow the researcher to generate many hypotheses.

Question 13

A central assumption of natural selection is that variability in characteristics

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A)   enhances survival.
B)   makes animals better able to reproduce.
C)   is a result of the environment.
D)   is heritable.

Question 14

Describe the two main strategies that psychologists utilize to minimize ethical risks in research.

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Psychologists use debriefing to alleviat...

Question 15

A social psychologist is interested in aggression and wants to study the phenomenon of adolescents bringing weapons to school and killing their classmates and teachers.Which method would be most appropriate for this type of research question?

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A)   an experiment
B)   a naturalistic observation
C)   a case study
D)   a field experiment

Question 16

A "full cycle" approach to social psychology is

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A)   useful since each method has different strengths and weaknesses.
B)   the use of multiple methods to study the same research question.
C)   the process of going back and forth between the laboratory and the natural world.
D)   all of the above

Question 17

What is archival research and what is one of its advantages?

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Archival research involves the examinati...

Question 18

In comparing the sociocultural and social learning perspectives,all of the following statements are true EXCEPT

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A)   the social learning perspective focuses on an individual's unique experiences.
B)   both perspectives emphasize relatively rapid change in behavior.
C)   the sociocultural perspective focuses on social groups, such as ethnic groups.
D)   both perspectives emphasize the environment over biology.

Question 19

Participants in a research study believe that they have given painful electric shocks to a confederate.After the experiment is over,the researcher tells the participant that there really were no shocks,and the confederate is unharmed.This discussion after an experiment is

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A)   the debriefing.
B)   the informed discussion.
C)   the cost/benefit analysis.
D)   the therapeutic interview.

Question 20

As defined in your text,a theory is

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A)   a belief or statement that the majority agrees upon.
B)   a scientific truth.
C)   an explanation that connects and organizes existing observations.
D)   an educated guess about what will happen in an experiment.

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