Exam 1: The Mission and the Method

Which of the following fields is concerned with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?

During the first half of the 20th century, who argued that attitudes were the most important and useful concept in social psychology?

While social psychologists are interested in a wide variety of topics, three themes that have become increasingly important during the last 30 years are ____.

Suppose that a researcher asked you to answer a series of incredibly personal questions about your sexual life. You might (justifiably) feel annoyed and intruded upon, and find yourself being rude to the researcher, or even purposely giving the researcher incorrect information. Your response would be an example of ____.

If you conduct a study and predict that A causes B, then B is the ____.

Random assignment is one of the defining features of correlational research.

Dr. Tsuei is studying the effects of sleep deprivation on interpersonal skills. He is testing the interpersonal skills of 20-25 year-old males who have been sleep deprived for 24 hours, 36 hours, or 48 hours. In this study, the dependent variable is the ____.

Using more than one exemplar of a stimulus (such as more than one violent video game in a study investigating violent video content on aggression) is known as ____.

Suppose that you are conducting a research project for a social psychology class. Due to the fact that you have no budget for the research, you are forced to rely on a college student population. How big of a problem is this in terms of your ability to later generalize your findings to other groups of people?

Which of the following fields is MOST concerned with understanding different human cultures?

Behaviorism seeks to explain human behavior in terms of ____.

Neuroscience integrates the fields of social psychology and biological psychology.

What separates psychology from philosophy is psychology's emphasis on the ____________________.

Based on early research by Norman Triplett, we should expect that children who work on math problems alone will ____ than children who work on math problems side by side with their classmates.

According to the simile in your text, if psychology is like a tree, then social psychology is like ____.

Xavier does a study in which he compares group brainstorming to individual brainstorming in face-to-face versus computer-mediated (i.e., chat room) communication conditions. He finds that groups are generally less productive at brainstorming than individuals, but that in chat room conditions, the difference is much less. The fact that the effect of the group versus individual condition depends on which communication medium was used illustrates a(n) ____.

Replication refers to ____.

The term "reactance" is used to refer to the tendency for people to ____.

A study is said to have internal validity if the researcher can be relatively confident that ____.

When the effects of two variables cannot be separated, ____ has been said to occur.