PSYC 312 Review Test Submission Quiz 1

Question 1    2 out of 2 points

Amani raises her hand in class. Her answer is wrong, and the teacher scolds her. After that, Amani doesn’t participate much in class. This situation is most compatible with a       approach to understanding and predicting behavior

Question 2    2 out of 2 points

Which of the following is false with regard to cross-cultural research in social psychology? Social psychologists

Question 3
Tom saw a weight-loss program advertised on late-night television. The ad claim2eodutthoaft 2depeopints breathing exercises would speed up metabolism, causing people to lose weight. He mailed a check for $99.95. When the plan arrived, Tom rearranged his day so that he could complete the breathing exercises as scheduled. They made him nauseated and dizzy, and before long, Tom’s friends began to think that he was going overboard with the program, and they began to avoid him. After the end of the ten-week program, Tom got on the scale and saw that he hadn’t lost an ounce! Still, he remained enthusiastic and thought, “I may not have lost any weight, but I feel so much healthier!” This situation is best explained by

Question 4    2 out of 2 points

Jacob was pouring gravy when he dropped the ladle and splattered gravy all over the tablecloth. In order to maintain his self-esteem, Jacob decided that

Question 5    2 out of 2 points

Although the fields of personality psychology and social psychology are related, what distinguishes social psychology from the other?

Question 6    2 out of 2 points

Melissa, Sally, Kathleen, and Lynne went mountain climbing. According to the self-justification approach, which one of the women would most appreciate the view from the top of the mountain?

Question 7    2 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements is not consistent with the social cognition approach to social psychology?
Question 8    2 out of 2 points

Which of the following people have fallen prey to the fundamental attribution error?
Question 9    2 out of 2 points

Which of the following questions is most likely to be asked by a social psychologist? 
Question 10    2 out of 2 points

Not all social influence is direct or deliberate. Which of the following is the best example of more indirect or subtle social influence?

Question 11    2 out of 2 points

Which of the following is the best illustration of a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Question 12    2 out of 2 points

Which of the following questions would be of most interest to a social cognition researcher? 
Question 13    2 out of 2 points

According to your text, one reason why social psychologists study the causes of social behavior      is to

Question 14    2 out of 2 points

When a researcher examines several replications of a phenomenon, he would be most likely to examine these data using the statistical technique of

Question 15    2 out of 2 points

In an experiment, the independent variable is    and the dependent variable is     . 
Question 16    2 out of 2 points

A cult in the 1950s believed that the world was coming to an end very soon. Researchers Leon Festinger and his colleagues studied this cult by joining the group and pretending to share these beliefs. What research method were they using?

Question 17    0 out of 2 points

When researchers say that there is a relationship between two variables, this means 
Question 18    2 out of 2 points

Ethnography can be defined as the method by which researchers attempt to understand a group or culture by

Question 19    2 out of 2 points

Complete the analogy: correlation:     :: experiment:     . 

Question 20    2 out of 2 points

An experimenter finds out that the p-value in his study is 3 in 100. What does this mean? 
Question 21    2 out of 2 points
There is invariably a trade-off between    and    in social psychology experiments. Question 22    2 out of 2 points

In the 2000 presidential election, the  polls  of  upper-middle-class  Americans  tended  to  show Bush leading Gore by a landslide. When election night came, the final results were closer than     had been predicted, and it turned out that Gore won the popular vote while Bush won the more critical Electoral College vote. One possible problem with the earlier survey results was that they relied primarily on polls of upper-middle-class people. This illustrates the finding that a major problem with surveys is

Question 23    2 out of 2 points

Which of the following is one of the ethical principles that psychologists must follow when using human participants? All participants must be

Question 24    2 out of 2 points

Patricia and John have each independently recorded the number of times the words “right” and “responsibility” appeared in a civics textbook. They compared their counts, and found that of the thousands of references to rights and responsibilities, they only disagreed by two

Question 25    2 out of 2 points

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