Exam 2: Doing Social Psychology Research

When decreases in one variable are accompanied by decreases in another variable, the variables are described as

The emphasis on the importance of replication of results in social psychology has ____ in recent years.

For which of the following questions would a researcher be MOST likely to use an observational study?

Which of the following is NOT relevant to self-reports?

Which of the following is NOT a challenge mentioned in the text in conducting cross-cultural social psychological research?

Which of the following BEST describes the primary goal of basic research?

What does it mean to say that an experiment has two independent variables?

What is the major limitation of random assignment?

Hypotheses must be all of the following except

Carmella finds a correlation of +0.47 between self-esteem and academic achievement. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate interpretation of this correlation?

Describe the concepts of mundane realism and experimental realism, and relate them to the larger issue of external validity in a research study.

Social psychologists use descriptive research in order to describe

Professor Collison conducts an experiment to find whether playing video games causes aggressive behavior or aggressive behavior induces playing video games. His study signifies what kind of relationship?

Any institution seeking federal funding for research involving human participants must have a(n) __________ to ensure those participants' well-being.

A researcher examined the effects of mood on aggression in an experiment. She decided to see how receiving an insult or a compliment affects aggression, and she measured aggression by having participants administer small shocks to another participant. The researcher found that participants in the insult condition were more aggressive than those in the compliment condition. One of her colleagues reads about this research and voices concern that people in the insult condition may have been more naturally aggressive than people in the compliment condition, causing the differences observed by the researcher. This concern about preexisting differences between participants in the two conditions would only be valid if participants were not

Which of the following statements about correlational research is TRUE?

A social dilemma experiment often involves an economic decision-making task in which participants must decide to cooperate or compete with their partner based on various payoffs. Although the format of the experiment does not resemble the real-world decisions participants may make, it is very involved, and participants often become highly competitive. Based on this description, a social dilemma experiment has

Experimenter expectancy effects may be greatly minimized by

The degree to which the experimental procedures are involving participants and lead them to behave naturally and spontaneously is called ____ realism.

The research methods used by social psychologists tend to emphasize all of the following except a(n) ____ approach.