Question 1

Interrater reliability is BEST employed in which of the following examples?

Accepted Answer

A)   The degree of correlation of students' responses to several foods
B)   The relationship between the quality ratings and actual health in different nursing homes
C)   The degree of jury agreement in rating children's paintings
D)   A comparison of toy preferences of toddlers at different intervals

Question 2

Which of the following resources is a research database that provides specific information related to the field of psychology?

Accepted Answer

A)   GooglePsych
B)   TrackPsych
C)   PsychFind
D)   PsycINFO

Question 3

Achieving ____ is typically more of a challenge in a field study than in a laboratory study.

Accepted Answer

A)   high external validity
B)   high internal validity
C)   high mundane realism
D)   cross-cultural reliability

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

Research using meta-analysis procedures

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A)   computes correlations among more than two variables.
B)   approaches a research question using both correlational and experimental studies.
C)   statistically assesses the consistency of several tests of the same hypothesis.
D)   is used when self-report data regarding a particular topic are not available.

Question 6

An accomplice of the experimenter who, in dealing with the real participants in an experiment, acts as if he or she is also a participant, is called a(n)

Accepted Answer

A)   confederate.
B)   union.
C)   helper.
D)   actor.

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 8

What event in 2011 has increased the level of discussion in social psychology about the role of values in the research process?

Accepted Answer

A)   The mistreatment of experimental participants
B)   The failure of IRBs to adequately oversee research
C)   The confession of a researcher to fabrication of data
D)   The report that most researchers fail to debrief their participants

Question 9

In principle, the purpose of random sampling is to make sure that research participants

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A)   have the right to withdraw from a study without incurring any penalty.
B)   are fully informed as to the procedures and hypotheses of the study.
C)   do not differ from one another in systematic ways.
D)   constitute a representative sample from the population of interest.

Question 10

An individual's deliberate, voluntary decision to participate in research, based on the researcher's description of what will be required during such participation, is called

Accepted Answer

A)   implied permission.
B)   informed consent.
C)   communicated assent.
D)   referential validity.

Question 11

The reliance of many social psychology studies on college student participants poses a threat to

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

Robinson manipulates two variables in his experimental investigation of test-taking performance: the number of participants seated in the room and the room temperature. He finds that regardless of the temperature in the room, participants do better on the test when the room is less crowded. Which statement about this study is TRUE?

Accepted Answer

A)   There are two independent variables in this study.
B)   There is one independent variable in this study.
C)   There are two dependent variables in this study.
D)   There are two dependent and two independent variables in this study.

Question 13

An organized set of principles used to explain observed phenomena is called a(n)

Accepted Answer

A)   personal bias.
B)   theory.
C)   hypothesis.
D)   educated guess.

Question 14

Camryn uses a survey to measure the association between students' grade point average and weekly consumption of alcohol. She finds that higher GPAs tend to be associated with lower levels of alcohol consumption (and vice versa) . This study is best described as a(n)

Accepted Answer

A)   experiment.
B)   observational study.
C)   concurrent study.
D)   correlational study.

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

Construct validity is BEST defined as the extent to which

Accepted Answer

A)   participants who are tested repeatedly on the same measure will yield the same results.
B)   the participants in a study were subjected to both random assignment and random selection.
C)   results in a study can be achieved upon repeated administration of the same measuring instrument.
D)   measures used in a study really measure the conceptual variables they were designed to measure.

Question 17

A researcher asked students to teach a rat to learn a maze. Some students were told they had been given a genetically engineered "intelligent" rat, whereas others were told that they had a "dull" rat. Although there were no actual differences among the rats, the "intelligent" rats learned the maze more quickly than the "dull" rats. Which of the following can BEST explain the results of this experiment?

Accepted Answer

A)   Experimenter expectancy effects
B)   Mundane realism
C)   Experimental realism
D)   High construct validity

Question 18

Which of the following conditions does NOT hold for conducting an experiment in social psychology?

Accepted Answer

A)   All participants are treated equally.
B)   The researcher has control over experimental procedures.
C)   Participants are assigned to different manipulations.
D)   The experiment is limited to be performed in a tightly controlled laboratory environment.

Question 19

What role do values play in the scientific process?

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Question 20

In a well-designed experiment, all participants must

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A)   be treated in exactly the same manner except for the specific differences the experimenter wants to create.
B)   not realize that they are involved in an experiment.
C)   be influenced by experimenter expectancy effects.
D)   be allowed to choose their own experimental conditions without interference or bias from the experimenter.

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