Exam 1: Introducing Social Psychology

An interpersonal level of explanation examines:

Social psychology deals with how people are affected:

Behaviourism has been the basis for the formulation of:

One way to avoid confounding results in an experiment is to:

Cognition is emphasised in modern social psychology in:

t tests have been commonly employed in psychological research to:

Which of the following was NOT the basis of an early and famous experiment in social psychology?

Evaluation apprehension, demand characteristics and social desirability refer to:

The double-blind procedure is used in experiments to:

A confounding variable in a research design is:

After the 1970s social psychology was significantly influenced by:

Social psychology is distinct from other social science disciplines because of:

Replication is an important feature of the scientific method because:

The general idea that we are biological entities and that psychology happens in the brain has given rise to:

Social psychologists study behaviour because:

What distinguishes sociology from social psychology is:

You are interested in the effects of visual feedback on how people respond when they meet a stranger. Half of your participants see a videotape of their own facial reactions when they meet a stranger; the other half does not see a videotape. You then ask all participants how positively they felt about their encounter with the stranger. The independent variable in your investigation is:

Which of the following describes Triplett's dynamogenic theory explaining the superior performance of cyclists in the presence of others?

A nineteenth-century experiment undertaken by Triplett was the forerunner to later work dealing with:

Laboratory experiments should always be high on: