Exam 1: The Mission and the Method

A study is said to have internal validity if the researcher can be relatively confident that ____.

In practice, most _____ (a subdiscipline of psychology)study children. The discipline has borrowed much from social psychology.

Compared to true experiments, MOST correlational studies are low in ____.

Dr. Tsuei is studying the effects of sleep deprivation on interpersonal skills. He is testing the interpersonal skills of 20-25 year-old males who have been sleep deprived for 24 hours, 36 hours, or 48 hours. In this study, the dependent variable is the ____.

According to _____ people respond to threats to their freedom by experiencing an unpleasant emotional response, which motivates them to defend their territory.

Dr. Otten studies the relationship between crime rates and childrearing practices. He is MOST likely a(n)____.

Following the collapse of the Soviet empire in 1989, social psychology's study on conflict ____.

MOST social psychological research has been conducted in ____.

Replication is an important part of ____.

Suppose you have conducted an experiment to test the effect of violence in TV shows on aggressive behavior in children. The dependent variable in this study would be ____.

Many areas of study in social psychology evoke a lot of passion from researchers invested in that arena. Although doing research to make the world a better place is great motivation, one of the hazards of this motive is that ____.

Most social psychologists perform research by ____.

Which of the following fields is best defined as "the study of human culture-the shared values, beliefs, and practices of a group of people?"

When did social psychology begin to come into its own as a field?

Describe the relationship between social psychology and developmental psychology.

Until recently, what was the relationship between developmental and social psychology?

As a rule, social psychologists are MOST interested in ____.

Which of the following topics would a cognitive psychologist be MOST likely to study?

During the "Decade of the Brain" in the ____, social psychologists became particularly interested in the biological aspects of social behavior.

The textbook discusses the "self-correcting nature of science" as it applies to social psychology. The idea here is that, over time, erroneous conclusions are revised appropriately, because ____.