Exam 2: Methodology

According to the authors,cross-cultural research "...is not a simple matter of traveling to another culture,translating materials into the local language,and replicating the study there." What factors make conducting cross-cultural research difficult?

Researchers at the University of Manitoba assessed attitudes toward deception research in 1970 and again in 1990 (Sharpe,Adair & Roese,1992).The results show that

The ________ is a number that expresses the likelihood that a given experimental finding would have occurred by chance alone.

If Professor Klein is using EEGs and fMRIs to study social behaviour,she is most likely to be involved in

An experimenter conducts a program of research to determine what types of messages are most effective in promoting condom use among adolescents.How would you classify this type of research?

An earlier chapter of your text described a study by Liberman,Samuels,and Ross (2004)in which participants played a game in the lab.The game was either called the "Wall Street Game" or the "Community Game." The researchers then compared how many people chose to play the game co-operatively and how many chose to play competitively.In this experiment,the name of the game was the

A psychologist first conducted a study on helping behaviour with a sample of college undergraduates.This psychologist then replicated the study using the same procedure with a different participant sample.If similar results were obtained with both samples,this experimenter has demonstrated

Imagine that researchers have found a correlation of -.72 between the frequency of disagreements that couples have and how long they stay together.Based on this correlation,would you start arguments with your significant other in order to sustain your relationship?

Which of the following explanations for the failure of neighbours to come to Kitty Genovese's aid best reflects the idea of diffusion of responsibility?

Suppose that I conduct an experiment on the effects of flattery on compliance.I bring women into the laboratory,tell them they are beautiful,and ask them to lend me $10.I bring men into the laboratory,I don't flatter them,and I ask them to lend me $10.Sure enough,more women than men lend me $10.My conclusion that flattery increases compliance is suspect because

According to research described in Chapter 2 of the text regarding body-ideals and body sizes of young women and men,

Surveys are instruments most often used by social psychologists who conduct ________ research.

Conceptually,what distinguishes laboratory from field experiments is

Participants in the Latané and Darley (1968)experimental study of the effects of group size on intervention in an emergency utilized

From an ethical perspective,what two goals often collide in social psychological research? On the one hand,social psychologists ________; on the other hand,they ________.

Stanley Milgram is well known for conducting research on obedience to authority because he wanted to understand the behaviour of Nazi soldiers.Participants in his classic 1963 experiment found themselves in the uncomfortable position of being told to administer increasingly strong shocks to a learner every time he made a mistake.Videotapes of the participants showed them laughing hysterically,chain-smoking,sweating,and fidgeting nervously.Based on these videotapes,it is safe to assume that Milgram's experiment was high on

In Chapter 2,the authors included a brief quiz about research findings.This quiz was designed to illustrate that

Researchers interested in determining how people's responses to one question can predict their other responses use the

What are some possible advantages and disadvantages associated with using surveys to enhance our understanding of social behaviour?

The study of brain processes is ________ in social psychology ________.