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Question 41

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A social psychologist is interested in aggression and wants to study the phenomenon of adolescents bringing weapons to school and killing their classmates and teachers. Which method would be most appropriate for this type of research question?

A) an experiment
B) a naturalistic observation
C) a case study
D) a field experiment

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Cues in the experiment that tell the participant how they are expected to behave are

A) confounds.
B) experimenter biases.
C) demand characteristics.
D) social desirability cues.

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Explain the difference between internal validity and external validity in experimental research. Why must experimenters usually make a "trade-off" between internal and external validity?

Which of the following is the main advantage of experiments?

Name and define the four major perspectives of social psychology. What are two views of social behavior that all four perspectives have in common?

If you take an extraversion-introversion test several times and consistently receive similar scores, the test is said to have high

Ants have brains that allow them to understand a complex social order, whereas lions have brains that allow them to survive largely on their own. These are examples of

Like many other residents of Paris, Pauline speaks French and loves to eat snails. According to your text, these behaviors are

If you observe a correlation between 2 variables, A and B, then you can assume that

Which of the following is an advantage of conducting a case study like the Schaller (1987) study of Kurt Cobain discussed in your text?

Nancee has just married again. She now has four husbands with whom she lives in a small town in Kansas. From a sociocultural perspective on social behavior, Nancee's behavior is a violation of

Professor Honshu has noticed over the years that people are demonstrating fewer social communication skills than in the past. Based on her research, she attributes this to our fast paced society of drive-thrus, texting, IPods, and the Internet. This is consistent with which of the following points mentioned in the text?

Define the experimental method in social psychology. Describe the advantages and disadvantages to this approach.

Which of the following is described in your text as a way in which persons and situations interact?

Describe the social learning perspective in social psychology, including the assumptions it makes about the causes of social behavior.

All of the following illustrate person-situation interactions EXCEPT

A researcher wants to conduct an experiment to examine the effect of looking at fashion models on women's self-image. She has ten women from a psychology class come in and look at female models, and has ten women from a different class look at pictures of regular females. She then measures the self-esteem of the women in both groups. What is the problem with this design?

Social psychologists talk about "the person," "the situation," and "person-situation interactions." All of the following are discussed as characteristics of the person EXCEPT

What is a case study and what is one advantage of a case study?

One of the weaknesses of the case study approach is that its results are not easily generalizable.