Exam 1: Introducing Social Psychology

Discuss evidence related to the role of self-esteem in academic achievement.

The great strength of correlational research is the:

Valeria,a social psychologist,plans to conduct an experiment to establish a link between drug abuse and longevity.Before beginning the experiment,she shares the basic details of the experiment with the participants.She does so to let the participants decide if they wish to participate.In this scenario,Valeria follows the ethical principle of:

A time-lagged correlation is an advanced correlational technique that reveals _____ variables or events,such as achievement and self-esteem.

The finding that obese women earned lower salaries than women in a nonobese comparison group was most likely the result of which type of research study?

A testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events is known as a:

Provide an example of a demand characteristic that could unintentionally alter the results of an experimental research study.

A psychological experiment is conducted in a laboratory to determine if meditation can cure insomnia in middleaged participants.The same experiment is conducted to find the effect of meditation on insomnia with teenage participants in natural settings.The researchers sought to find whether the observed results in the laboratory would be the same as those found in natural settings.This scenario illustrates:

Variable X is correlated with variable Y.Which of the following could potentially explain this correlation?

A theory is:

The results of Boyatzis's (1995)research indicated that _____ can be one cause of children's aggressive behavior.

If you wanted more people to donate their organs when they die,you would:

Social representations are:

Among the four potentially biasing influences on surveys,the meat lobby rejecting a new U.S.food labeling law that requires declaring ground beef as "30% fat" rather than "70% lean,30% fat" is an example of how _____ may influence human decisions and expressed opinions.

The attributions a person makes for his or her spouse's acid remark depends on the happiness of his or her marriage.What concept does this portray?

If you ask conservative,liberal,independent,and Green Party voters their opinions of political candidates,rather than just conservative voters,you are attempting to ensure that your sample is:

Which of the following is a disadvantage of correlational research?

You conduct a study on a group of individuals to examine the role of exercise in alleviating depression.You assign the first 50 people who are motivated to sign up to the experimental group,and the second group of 50 people,who sign up much later,to the control group.After one month,you find that the people in the experimental group (who exercised three times a week on average)are significantly less depressed than the people in the control group (who exercised once a week on average).Although you may be tempted to conclude that exercise helps stave off depression,you cannot because of the lack of _____ in your study.

Errors in both judging the future's foreseeability and in remembering our past together to create:

Studies that seek results pointing to cause-effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors while controlling others are known as: