Exam 14: Making a Difference With Social Psychology: Attaining a Sustainable Future

Your friend claims to be an animal lover but constantly wears fur and leather.How can you use the techniques designed by Aronson and his students (1992) to change your friend's behavior?

McNally and his colleagues have conducted controlled experiments to examine the effectiveness of Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) on preventing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).The results of the studies show that CISD is

In an effort to encourage students to reduce the amount of water being used at the university gym, administrators put up a sign asking students to take shorter showers.However, water consumption did not decrease sufficiently, and some students even retaliated by taking long showers.Why did the sign fail to reduce water usage?

"Flow" can best be described as a(n)

You want to get your roommates' friends to quit throwing their empty cans and cigarette butts onto the ground outside your apartment.Based on what Cialdini and his colleagues (1990) found in their research, you should invoke ________ norms because they are more effective than ________ norms in reducing litter.

According to your text, which method is best suited for understanding which interventions and solutions to real-world problems work best?

Which of the following is NOT a reason why social psychologists are well qualified to find solutions to applied psychological problems?

Your text discusses a number of reasons for the correlation between happiness and social relationships.Regardless of the reason(s) why, having high quality relationships have been shown to be a

In order to test the effectiveness of an intervention using an experiment, it is best to have a

Joe has just survived a horrible earthquake.After this traumatic event, he is asked if he wants to undergo Critical Incident Stress Debriefing.Based on information from your text, what would you suggest Joe do?

Recall that researchers asked some students on the way to a field house shower to sign a petition advocating water conservation, others to report on their water use, and others to do both.Those who both reported their water use and signed the petition took shorter showers than those students in the other two conditions because

You are a member of the next generation of social psychologists.If you follow Lewin's advice (1946, as presented in your text), your research questions can best be tested using

Which of the following does not belong?

Beth is the new director of the Municipal Water Conservation Board.Because the board has not been very successful in its appeals to encourage residents to stop wasting water, Beth has decided to change how their message is presented.She's decided to change the public service ads sponsored by the Municipal Water Conservation Board.Which of the following television appeals would be most likely to encourage the public to use less water?

Dr.Palcon designs a study to test which strategy is best in terms of encouraging residents to recycle on a weekly basis.Dr.Palcon is most likely conducting ________ research.

The authors of your text report what happened when researchers provided workers in a unit of a Dutch factory with feedback on energy consumption.The results of the study were that workers who received weekly feedback on their own unit ________ reduced the energy they used, and workers who received comparative feedback on energy usage ________.

Jerry has rigged his television to run from energy that is created when he pedals a stationary bicycle.Jerry is an example of how we can solve environmental problems by

What is the role of money in determining how happy a person will be?

Benjamin is studying to be an accountant and wants to go to law school because tax lawyers make loads of money.He thinks that lots of money and an expensive house and car will make him happy.Based on what the authors of your text report on affective forecasting, how good is he likely to be at predicting what will make him happy in the future?

The authors of your text report that the researchers have found that happy people tend to also