Exam 2: Methodology: How Social Psychologists Do Research

An experimenter finds out that the p-value in his study is 3 in 100. What does this mean?

After Lyla's husband was injured in a car accident, she said, "I woke up with a bad feeling in my stomach-I knew something was off about that day." Lyla is exhibiting __________.

Tony has been doing research on age and aggression. He has discovered that the older a person gets, the less likely he or she is to aggress against another person. What kind of relationship best describes Tony's findings?

A researcher investigates the relationship between socioeconomic status and the likelihood of going on to college after high school. This research represents a(n) __________.

According to the authors of your text, the hindsight bias is __________.

A researcher investigated the relationship between self-esteem and choice of a partner in a "getting acquainted" situation. To do this, she had students take a personality test and then she gave them feedback (based on random assignment) indicating either that the test found them to be "mature, insightful, and socially skilled" or "immature, inflexible, and overly critical." After receiving this feedback, students chose a partner to interact with by looking at photos of people of the opposite sex who were either high or low in physical attractiveness. The study just described is a(n) __________.

A hypothesis is most like a(n) __________.

Internal validity is to __________ as external validity is to __________.

When a person agrees to participate in an experiment in full awareness of the nature of the experiment, which has been provided prior to their participation, the participant has provided __________.

Before Jonas Salk discovered a vaccine to prevent polio, people noticed a correlation between outside temperature and the incidence of polio: The warmer the temperature over the course of the year, the more outbreaks of polio. This relationship is an example of a(n) __________ correlation.

Which of the following would be most likely to share a research lab and equipment with the biology department or medical school?

Complete the following analogy: independent variable is to __________ as dependent variable is to __________.

Research that examines the effects of deception experiments on participants has found that __________.

Which statement below best captures the major ethical dilemma faced by experimental social psychologists?

Satisfying intellectual curiosity describes __________ research, while solving social problems describes __________ research.

The idea of "telling more than you can know" (Nisbett & Wilson, 1977) is the premise that people may report why they respond a certain way, but that their reports about causes of behavior reflect __________.

Maisie was very upset after she participated in an experiment. During the __________, the researcher made sure that she understood that the situation was not real, and made sure that Maisie was calm and happy before leaving.

Shannon conducts an experiment to test her hypothesis that longer arguments cause couples to become angrier at each other. She randomly assigns couples to argue for either ten minutes or twenty minutes. After her assistant Ken runs the study, Ken tells Shannon that he allowed the couples who were really fighting hard to keep arguing longer than Shannon had originally stated. Shannon cringes, for she knows that the __________ of her study is very low.

One problem with informed consent is that __________.

How did Latané and Darley (1968) vary the number of bystanders in their experimental study of the effects of the number of witnesses exposed to an emergency?