Deck 4: Social Psychology and Research Methods

Question 1

__________ is a branch that study the origin, development, structure, and functioning of social groups

A)Sociology.
B)Social Psychology.
C)Antropology.
D)Personality Psychology.

Answer 1

Sociology.

Question 2

__________ is the key to uncovering causal relationships between variables.

A)Observation.
B)Experimental Method.
C)Case study.
D)Survey.

Answer 2

Experimental Method.

Question 3

__________ is the treatment variable that is manipulated by the experimenter.

A)Dependent variable.
B)Intervening variable.
C)Control variable.
D)Independent variable.

Answer 3

Independent variable.

Question 4

Which of the following is not a core value that the field of social psychology is committed to?

A)Open-mindedness.
B)Objectivity.
C)Intuition.
D)Accuracy.

Question 5

Social psychology seeks to understand __________ in social situations.

A)Individual Behavior.
B)Individual thought.
C)Group behavior.
D)Both A and B.

Question 6

Which of the following factors that can affect an individual's behavior in social settings?

A)Cognitive processes.
B)Cultural context.
C)Biological factors.
D)All of the above are correct.

Question 7

Social psychologists currently view cognition and behavior as

A)Two distinct groups.
B)Two distinct, but mutually exclusive concepts.
C)Two intimately and continuously linked concepts.
D)Social psychologists still have not come to a unified view of these concepts.

Question 8

The practice of systematic observation is a(n) __________ practice of observation.

A)Formal.
B)Informal.
C)Careful.
D)Both A and C.

Question 9

If a researcher wanted to determine how consumers felt about a particular detergent, he would ideally use which research method?

A)Systematic observation.
B)The survey method.
C)A correlational study.
D)The experimental method.

Question 10

Which of the following elements does an experiment require to be considered successful?

A)The lack of confounding variables.
B)The presence of confounding variables.
C)Random assignment of participants to conditions.
D)Both A and C are correct.

Question 11

The term "possible selves" does not include

A)Self-schema.
B)Self-esteem.
C)The self we dream of becoming.
D)The self we fear we might become.

Question 12

Self-esteem is

A)The total of our possible selves.
B)The sum of all our self-schemas.
C)The total sum of our thoughts about ourselves.
D)A person's overall evaluation of oneself.

Question 13

__________ states that first impression are very important

A)Recency effect.
B)Placebo effect.
C)Hallo effect.
D)Primacy effect.

Question 14

__________ is the extent to which other people behave in the same way in similar situation.

A)Distinctiveness.
B)Consensus.
C)Consistency.
D)Validity.

Question 15

The originator of message or the information source selects desire message.

A)Sender.
B)Encoder.
C)Decoder.
D)Noise.

Question 16

"ABX" model of communication was proposed by

A)Shannon.
B)Weaver.
C)Newcomb.
D)De Fleur