Exam 2: Doing Social Psychology Research

Johanna is participating in a study on social contacts and subjective well-being. Each evening around 6 p.m., Johanna is supposed to record in a journal the number of social interactions she had that day that were longer in duration than 5 minutes. The researcher is using ____ self-report in this study.

If a finding from one culture fails to generalize to a second culture, this should be viewed as a(n)

Researchers have developed interval-contingent, signal-contingent, and event-contingent report methods to

Elaborately explain a correlation coefficient. How will you differentiate between a positive or a negative coefficient?

Alan conducted an analysis to examine the relationship between pollution and low life expectancy in a rural setting. He estimated the correlation ratio to be 0.089 for the age group of 25 to 85 years. What type of correlation would he have observed?

Compare and contrast random sampling and random assignment. Also, indicate how these procedures affect a study's internal and external validity.

Self-report measures and observational measures are similar in that both

A confound is a serious threat to ____ validity in a social psychological study.

Which of the following statements concerning research questions in social psychology is FALSE?

Which of the following is an example of a negative correlation?

The sign of a correlation coefficient indicates the ____ of the relationship between variables.

Buster runs an experiment in which she finds that participants placed in a good mood by a happy film clip are more likely to offer help to a fellow participant than participants who see a sad film clip. Bob suggests that perhaps this difference simply results from the fact that the participants in the happy film clip condition were more helpful people to begin with. What methodological aspect of a successful experiment can Buster point to in order to refute this criticism?

Melissa's research examines the cognitive processes involved in persuasion and how those processes can be used to persuade women to have yearly mammograms. This work represents an integration of

A new researcher examines the effects of alcohol on aggressiveness in a laboratory. He acts in a less polite manner with participants who are assigned to the alcohol condition. This differential treatment of participants across conditions will threaten

In comparison to field experiments, laboratory experiments

One reason that social psychologists attempt to replicate the results of their research is that doing so

Rhianna is participating in a study on social contacts and subjective well-being. After each social interaction that is longer than 5 minutes in duration, Rhianna logs into a site and responds to a series of questions about how she is feeling. The researcher is using ____ self-report in this study.

Margarita is conducting research as part of her Master's thesis. She enlists the participation of undergraduate students in her laboratory, has them go through a series of activities, and then tells them what the true intent of the research was before they leave. She does not, however, inform them what their participation will involve before the research begins. Margarita has failed to remember the importance of

Which of the following correlation coefficients reflects the strongest meaningful relationship?

Your book describes a study in which participants were provided with information about either the success rate or failure rate of condoms. The findings of this study indicate that