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Topic1: Aronson, Social Psychology, 7/e

Chapter 1: Introducing Social Psychology

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This activity contains 23 questions.

	Professor Smithwyck is studying the short-term mating strategies of teenagers and young adults. The professor’s research most likely falls in the realm of _____.   developmental psychology psycho-sexual psychology organizational psychology child psychology evolutionary psychology

	The ideal self is _____.   A mental representation of the kind of person we actually are. A mental representation of the kind of person we would like to meet in the future. A physical representation of the kind of person we would like to mate with. A physical representation of the kind of person we would like our partner to become. A mental representation of the kind of person we would like to be

	We decide whether an individual belongs to one social group or another through _____.   experimenter effects debriefing stereotypes systematic observation social categorization

	Recent research (Pelham, Mirenberg, and Jones, 2002) suggests that implicit egotism may explain why _____.   many people choose to live in places whose names resemble their own in some way some people select spouses in part on the basis of their names there are more attorneys named “Jones” than one would expect by chance locations are frequently named for a prominent feature of the environment people sometimes name their pets for other people whom they care about

	Naturalistic observation relies on _____.   asking a large number of people to answer questions about their attitudes or behavior the manipulation of one variable to see what effect it has on another variable systematic observation that occurs in natural settings providing people with as much information as possible before they decide whether to participate in the study generalizing the results of laboratory research to real-life social situations

	One advantage of survey research is that _____.   surveys establish that one variable causes a change in another variable surveys allow researchers to make changes to one variable in order to see if it influences another one surveys allow us to make inferences about one group of people based on the answers given by a different group surveys allow information to be collected from a very large number of people surveys allow us to determine the best approach to take in our efforts to change behavior

	Negative correlations indicate that _____.   two variables tend to increase at the same time two variables tend to decrease at the same time there is no meaningful relationship between two variables one variable increases as the other decreases the relationship between two variables is very weak

	A significant correlation between two variables indicates that _____.   an unusually strong relationship exists between the two variables the two variables are really two different measures of the same thing two variables are related to each other in some way another variable causes both of the correlated variables to change in the same way one variable causes the other variable to change in a consistent way

	A formal experiment involves _____.   making a change to one variable and measuring any change that occurs in a different variable carefully observing the ways that people react to surprising situations in the laboratory taking repeated measurements of the independent variable using a control group to determine whether the experimenter actually changed the dependent variable systematically assigning research subjects to the different conditions under study

	A social psychologist wants to study the effects of rewards on learning. She asks two groups of students to memorize a list of 35 words, 5 words at a time. There are 5 students in each group. After each set of 5 words is memorized, she gives one group a free movie ticket. The other group does not receive a reward for learning the words. The researcher carefully measures how long it takes the members of each group to memorize the word list. In this example, the independent variable is _____.   the researcher the students the time it takes students to learn the word list the free movie tickets the word list

	A social psychologist wants to study the effects of rewards on learning. She asks two groups of students to memorize a list of 35 words, 5 words at a time. There are 5 students in each group. After each set of 5 words is memorized, she gives one group a free movie ticket. The other group does not receive a reward for learning the words. The researcher carefully measures how long it takes the members of each group to memorize the word list. In this example, the dependent variable is _____.   the word list the free movie tickets the time it takes students to learn the word list the students the researcher

	The mathematics that allow us to determine whether research results are due to chance factors alone is _____.   data analyses inferential statistics meta-analysis descriptive statistics randomization

	The underlying purpose of conducting experiments is to _____.   form the basis of a new theory explore possible functional relationships between two variables establish whether a theory is correct collect information that is relevant to a particular theory determine whether a correlation represents a causal relationship

	When deception is used during a scientific investigation, most research participants _____.   assume that all social sciences research involves deception do not react negatively to temporary deception become angry or upset at the use of deception become less suspicious about what researchers tell them avoid participating in future research projects

	The requirement for researchers to obtain the informed consent of research participants _____.   is only a legal protection for unscrupulous researchers helps to serve as a safeguard against inappropriate use of deception during experiments cannot be met if deception is to be employed in the experiment is a waste of valuable time and resources prevents researchers from gaining information about some particularly sensitive topics

	Four important core values of science are accuracy, objectivity, skepticism and open-mindedness.    True  False

	Social psychology focuses on the behavior of social groups.    True  False

	Cultural values and beliefs relating to divorce have changed substantially over the past few decades.    True  False

	Mate poaching is a form of social behavior that occurs in some animals, but not in humans.    True  False

	Recent research on social categorization has demonstrated that people assign others to categories very quickly.    True  False

	Correlations can only be used to make predictions about variables -- they are never useful for formulating theories.    True  False

	A theory can never be proven correct.    True  False

	Deception in social science research involves providing people with misleading or incorrect information to encourage them to participate in an experiment.    True  False

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