Exam 2: Methodology: How Social Psychologists Do Research

Which of the following pairs of variables are most likely to be negatively correlated?

Describe the interplay between internal and external validity.

The notion of "the basic dilemma of the social psychologist" refers to __________.

Which of the following best defines the term "sample"?

Mario conducts a study on what Caucasians perceive as physically attractive, then conducts the same study with African Americans, and then with Asian Americans as the sample. Mario is using __________ to determine the external validity of his findings.

Which of the following is important to replication across different situations and people?

According to the authors of your text, when Bibb Latané and John Darley began to seriously consider why no one helped Kitty Genovese during her brutal attack, they hypothesized that the explanation was that __________.

Why is it unwise to conclude that if two variables are correlated, one must have caused the other?

"What is the relationship between viewing violence on the one hand, and behaving aggressively on the other hand?" How might an observational researcher, a correlational researcher, and an experimental researcher answer that question?

Which of the following is NOT one of the purposes of debriefing?

A researcher hired by a department store wants to examine whether manipulating the room temperature to be hotter as opposed to cooler affects sales of air conditioners. The best method for answering this question would be __________.

An experimenter conducts a program of research to determine what types of messages are most effective in promoting condom use among adolescents. How would you classify this type of research?

One of the greatest advantages of surveys is that researchers __________.

A researcher is interested in the relationship between the age of a person and their degree of job satisfaction. To determine this, the researcher should use the __________ method.

Professor Weems is interested in the reaction of students to a new university policy of required attendance at all classes. Professor Weems inconspicuously listens to student conversations when the topic comes up and records the students' opinions. This represents __________ research.

Assume that you are a participant in Latané and Darley's (1968) experiment examining when people help. You believe that there are five other people participating with you in a discussion, although you are isolated in a booth to ensure privacy. When you are listening to one of the other participants talk, you hear him beginning to have a seizure. If you behave like the typical subject in Latané and Darley's research, what are you most likely to do?

What happens during a typical post-experimental debriefing?

A researcher wants to determine if there is any relationship between gender and the tendency to run stop signs. The best method to ask this question is __________.

Are people who are better educated more or less prejudiced than people who have less education? This question is most appropriately answered by using __________.

You are reading a paper about how to do well in college and it presents several correlation coefficients. These correlation coefficients indicate __________.