Exam 2: Doing Social Psychology Research

Joel argues that the use of confederates provides for real interactions that emulate the types of reactions that occur in real life.Dale argues that the use of confederates simply makes an experiment more involving for the participant.Which of the following is true?

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

Which of the following is not true of applied research in social psychology?

Barb examines the impact that sitting in front of a mirror has on the academic performance of female adolescents.In her study, the number of math questions answered correctly appears to be the

What is one general difference between descriptive and correlational research methods?

Which of the following is true of correlational research?

Participants who are subjected to all of the experimental procedures except the experimental manipulation are called

Social psychologists use descriptive research in order to describe

Vito finds a correlation of -0.35 between procrastination behaviors and academic achievement.Which of the following is an appropriate conclusion for Vito to draw?

Camryn uses a survey to measure the association between students' grade point average and weekly consumption of alcohol.She finds that higher GPAs tend to predict lower levels of alcohol consumption (and vice versa).This study is best described as a(n)

The procedure used to ensure that research participants have an equal chance of being placed in either the experimental or control group in an experiment is called

Achieving _________ is typically more of a challenge in a field study than in a laboratory study.

An organized set of principles used to explain observed phenomena is called a(n)

Imagine that some researchers are interested in college students' self-reports about their reactions to various stressful situations.Rather than simply asking the students to recall various stressful situations and their reactions to them, the researchers want to reduce the time between the students' self-reports about the situations and the actual situations themselves.Describe two methods that have been developed by social psychologists that could serve this purpose.

The sign on a correlation indicates the _____ of the relationship between the two variables it measures.

Random assignment is essential to establishing causality because it

Research using meta-analysis procedures

A study that examines existing records or databases is referred to as a

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?

In encouraging social psychologists to generate useful, practical theories, Kurt Lewin