Question 1

To examine potential gender differences in the qualities individuals seek in their romantic partners,HaeJin compares the personal ads placed by men and women.HaeJin is conducting a(n)

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A)  experiment.
B)  observational study.
C)  archival study.
D)  survey study.

Question 2

Adarah is learning about research methods in her social psychology course.She should experience all of the following benefits except

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A)  she will develop a better appreciation for the advantages of anecdotal stories.
B)  the findings she learns about in class will be easier to understand and remember.
C)  she will become a more sophisticated consumer of information in general.
D)  it will improve her reasoning about real-life events.

Question 3

When interrogating a woman in a string of neighborhood______________thefts,Detective______________Morse______________tells her suspect______________the following:______________"I am asking you these questions and I'd advise you to answer honestly.When we are done chatting,you are going to have to answer them again when attached to a lie-detector." Detective Morse is using what,in research,is called the technique.

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A)  bogus pipeline
B)  backward masking
C)  double-blind
D)  quasi-experimental

Question 4

A social dilemma experiment often involves an economic decision-making task in which participants must decide to cooperate or compete with their partner based on various payoffs.Although the format of the experiment does not resemble the real-world decisions participants may make,it is very involved,and participants often become highly competitive.Based on this description,a social dilemma experiment has

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A)  high mundane realism and low experimental realism.
B)  low mundane realism and low experimental realism.
C)  high experimental realism and high mundane realism.
D)  high experimental realism and low mundane realism.

Question 5

The disclosure made to participants after research procedures are completed,in which the researcher explains the purpose of the research,is called

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A)  informed consent.
B)  a post-hoc test.
C)  experimenter expectancy effects.
D)  debriefing.

Question 6

The purpose of using control groups is to

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A)  address ethical concerns about experiments.
B)  determine if there are any interactions among the independent variables.
C)  ensure a high level of experimental realism.
D)  provide a baseline against which to compare the effects of the independent variables.

Question 7

Megumi is running an experiment on the impact of noise level on subsequent aggressive behavior.In one condition,participants experience a loud,annoying noise while trying to complete a task,and then are given a chance later to give another ostensible participant a noise blast,too.In the other condition,the participants do not experience the noise while trying to complete their task.After the study has been conducted,Megumi realizes that the loud room was lit more brightly than the quiet room.This difference in the level of light is an example of a

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A)  confound.
B)  control group.
C)  threat to external validity.
D)  subject variable.

Question 8

Many social psychological questions can be addressed only with surveys because

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A)  funding sources are looking to save money and surveys are relatively inexpensive.
B)  researchers rarely have time to carry out complex social psychological experiments.
C)  the analysis of surveys permits much tighter control than could otherwise be achieved.
D)  they involve variables that are impossible or unethical to observe directly or manipulate.

Question 9

Imagine that some researchers are interested in college students' self-reports about their reactions to various stressful situations.Rather than simply asking the students to recall various stressful situations and their reactions to them,the researchers want to reduce the time between the students' self-reports about the situations and the actual situations themselves.Describe two methods that have been developed by social psychologists that could serve this purpose.

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The textbook describes three such method...

Question 10

The research methods used by social psychologists tend to emphasize all of the following except a(n) ____ approach.

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A)  systematic
B)  objective
C)  variable
D)  quantifiable

Question 11

Joel argues that the use of confederates provides for real interactions that emulate the types of reactions that occur in real life.Dale argues that the use of confederates simply makes an experiment more involving for the participant.Which of the following is true?

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A)  Joel and Dale both believe that confederates increase mundane realism.
B)  Joel and Dale both believe that confederates increase experimental realism.
C)  Joel believes that confederates increase mundane realism;Dale believes that confederates increase experimental realism.
D)  Joel believes that confederates increase experimental realism;Dale believes that confederates increase mundane realism.

Question 12

Natasha finds that men speak more often in the classroom than do women,and that this is true both when they are assigned to sit in the front of the room and the back of the room.Natasha's study has found a statistically significant effect for

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A)  the independent variable she manipulated.
B)  a subject variable.
C)  the conceptual variable.
D)  the experimental but not the correlational variable.

Question 13

Which statement concerning correlational research is true?

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A)  In correlational research,variables are measured but not manipulated.
B)  In correlational research,one variable is manipulated and one is measured.
C)  Correlational research can be conducted using observational,but not archival,measures.
D)  Correlational research can be conducted using archival,but not observational,measures.

Question 14

Any institution seeking federal funding for research involving human participants must have a(n) ______________to ensure those participants' well-being.

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A)  human participants' safety board
B)  right and well-being assurance group
C)  ethical insurance committee
D)  institutional review board

Question 15

One major difference between research in social psychology and research in other fields such as chemistry is that

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A)  social psychologists are less likely to rely on empirical observation to draw conclusions.
B)  many people have intuitive opinions about the questions that social psychologists study empirically.
C)  in social psychology,researchers are less concerned with theories and more concerned with data.
D)  social psychology is less of a science than many other fields.

Question 16

All else being equal,theories in social psychology have all of the attributes except that

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A)  they are efficient and precise
B)  they lead to new hypotheses
C)  they contradict past research findings
D)  they encompass all of the relevant information

Question 17

A social psychologist wants to study the impact of listening to classical music on people's level of comfort in social interactions.She runs a study using a convenience sample of college undergraduates.The use of this particular sample is a threat to

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A)  mundane realism.
B)  experimental realism.
C)  internal validity.
D)  external validity.

Question 18

Which of the following is not a challenge mentioned by your textbook in conducting cross-cultural social psychological research?

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A)  Cultural differences affect people by the context in which they complete a survey.
B)  Translation of a survey or questionnaire from one language to the other can be literally the same,yet carry the wrong connotation.
C)  Multilingual people may think or act differently as a function of what language is used in a particular setting.
D)  In general,universities are unwilling to allow faculty to travel outside the U.S.to conduct research.

Question 19

Carmella finds a correlation of +0.47 between self-esteem and academic achievement.Which of the following is the most appropriate interpretation of this correlation?

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A)  High self-esteem motivates students to achieve more academically.
B)  Doing well academically increases students' self-esteem.
C)  The higher students' self-esteem,the greater their academic achievement.
D)  As self-esteem increases,academic achievement decreases.

Question 20

Which study was controversial enough to spark discussion of the ethics of research,and ultimately resulted in the creation of IRBs to protect participant rights?

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A)  Ashton-James and colleagues (2009) study of the influence of mood and culture on openness to novelty
B)  Greitemeyer and colleagues (2012) study of the influence of video games on aggression
C)  Milgram's (1963) studies of obedience to an authority telling participants to deliver electrical shocks to a confederate
D)  Newcomb's (1961) study of interpersonal attraction in a highly structured dormitory setting

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