Exam 1: Studying Social Behaviour

Most deception in social psychology:

Internal validity refers to:

Studies of the reactions of participants who have participated in research using deception have found:

A very important shortcoming of the field experiment is:

Random assignment of participants helps to assure that groups of participants:

The Stanford Prison study described in Chapter 1 is an example of:

When studying complex social issues, it makes sense to use:

External validity of research refers to the extent to which:

Theories in social psychology:

If 'drinking' is equated with the number of bottles of beer consumed per hours, this is an example of:

To be able to define hypothetical constructs in a quantifiable way, we usually employ:

The advantage of the interview technique over the questionnaire approach is that:

Placing participants in a control group that is not given a potentially helpful drug creates:

Asking people to describe in detail what the birth of their first child means to them would be an example of:

All of the following are self-report measures except:

Which of the following has dominated the development of theories in social psychology?

It consists of shared schemas, social norms and ways of looking at the world. What is it?

The following is true about deception in research:

Ethics committees must be sensitive to:

Participants watch a video in which they see a series of cards, each containing an incomplete word, e.g. S-Y. In one condition, the experimenter holding up the words is white, in the other, she is Asian. Participants in the latter condition were more likely to write down word completions consistent with the stereotype of Asian women, e.g. SHY. The dependent variable in this study is: