Question 1

Fatima investigates whether natural selection plays a role in how people are attracted to each other. Fatima's research is in the area of

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A)   evolutionary psychology.
B)   cross-cultural psychology.
C)   personality psychology.
D)   multicultural psychology.

Question 2

Which of the following methods is a relatively new technology used in contemporary social psychological research?

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A)   Positron emission tomography (PET) 
B)   Arterial blood gasses (ABG) 
C)   Electroencephalography (EEG) 
D)   Electromyography (EMG)

Question 3

Courses in social psychology are most often required for students majoring in

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A)   biological sciences.
B)   journalism.
C)   performing arts.
D)   philosophy.

Question 4

Virtual reality allows social psychologists to

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A)   more effectively deceive research participants.
B)   test questions that might otherwise be impractical or unethical.
C)   scan the brain as it processes stimuli.
D)   explore "hot" processes more so than "cold" processes.

Question 5

Characteristic of the field of social psychology today include all of the following except

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A)   an interest in the way cognition and motivation interact.
B)   a focus on the role of culture in shaping behavior.
C)   an integration of biological and social perspectives.
D)   a concern for the lack of ethical standards in research.

Question 6

Wanting to be accurate in our judgments of ourselves is often in conflict with wanting to feel good about ourselves. This conflict illustrates the importance of integrating the ____ perspectives in social psychology.

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A)   "hot" and "cold"
B)   controlled and automatic
C)   social and biological
D)   economic and cognitive

Question 7

Cross-cultural research looking at performance on a difficult letter-unscrambling task indicates that

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A)   Asian-American students worked harder than the European-American students if they were first asked to think about their mothers.
B)   Asian-American students worked harder than the European-American students if they were first asked to think about themselves.
C)   Asian-American and European-American worked equally hard if they were first asked to think about their mothers.
D)   European-American students worked harder than the Asian-American students if they were first asked to think about their mothers.

Question 8

Which of the following subfields of social psychology studies the relationship between playing violent video games and subsequent aggression?

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A)   Behavioral genetics
B)   Behavioral economics
C)   Social neuroscience
D)   Evolutionary psychology

Question 9

According to your text, one of the people who had the greatest impact on the developing field of social psychology was not a psychologist. Who was this person?

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A)   Winston Churchill
B)   Charles Lindbergh
C)   Adolf Hitler
D)   Jackie Robinson

Question 10

How does social psychology differ from each of the following: (a) sociology, and (b) the approach taken by a journalist who examines the social behaviors of various individuals?

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Although social psychologists and sociol...

Question 11

Much of the debate in social psychology during the period of "confidence and crisis" occurred in reaction to

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A)   the usefulness of applied research.
B)   the use of laboratory experiments.
C)   the significance of common sense in social psychology.
D)   the interactionist perspective.

Question 12

Pluralism in social psychology can be seen in all of the following areas except the

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A)   procedures used to secure government funding.
B)   emphasis on different aspects of human behaviors.
C)   methods social psychologists use to study behavior.
D)   inclusion of various cultural perspectives.

Question 13

Which of the following branches of psychology can be applied to various other fields such as law, healthcare, business, and academics?

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A)   Forensic psychology
B)   Cognitive psychology
C)   Social psychology
D)   Developmental psychology

Question 14

Roger would like to read about social psychological research on conformity. He should look at the research of

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A)   Solomon Asch.
B)   Kurt Lewin.
C)   Leon Festinger.
D)   Floyd Allport.

Question 15

Social neuroscience is best described as the study of the

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A)   evolution of the brain.
B)   interplay between genes and the environment.
C)   social functioning of neurons.
D)   interaction of social and neural processes.

Question 16

Which of the following technologies is not mentioned in your text as one that is used in social psychological research?

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A)   ERP
B)   fMRI
C)   TMS
D)   EEG

Question 17

Which of the following statements would best represent the "hot" perspective in social psychology?

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A)   A good mood can foster attitude change.
B)   Distraction can lead to overdependence on first impressions.
C)   Critical thinking is essential for problem solving.
D)   People can be genetically programmed to aggress against others.

Question 18

Which of the following fields is most concerned with how the brain influences social behavior?

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A)   Evolutionary psychology
B)   Social cognition
C)   Social neuroscience
D)   Behavioral genetics

Question 19

Which of the following statements is true of pluralism in social psychology?

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A)   It established variations in what aspects of human behavior are emphasized.
B)   It emphasizes the motivational more than the cognitive underpinnings of behavior.
C)   It limited the possibility of cross-cultural differences in behavior.
D)   It limited the kinds of topics that social psychologists can study.

Question 20

The scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave when in the real, implied, or imagined presence of others is called ____ psychology.

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A)   clinical
B)   social
C)   developmental
D)   interactive

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Virtual reality allows social psychologists to

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