Exam 1: Introduction to Social Psychology

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

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

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

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.

A central assumption of natural selection is that variability in characteristics

A "full cycle" approach to social psychology is

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

Social desirability bias is defined as

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?

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

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

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 ________.

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?

As defined in your text,a theory is

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 ________.

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

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

All of the following are potential problems with case studies EXCEPT

Which of the following is the main advantage of experiments?

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