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

Based on information from your text, why is it so important to use an experiment to test interventions before implementing them?

Recently, a new psychological intervention has been publicized in the media and hailed as a surefire way to eliminate bullying in schools.The local school board has asked you to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention.Explain how you would do this.

To determine the effectiveness of CISD in reducing the incident of anxiety disorders, what would be your experimental group?

Describe the three controllable things in a person's life that can lead to greater happiness and explain why these things lead to greater happiness.

Recall that Cialdini and his colleagues (1990) found that students were least likely to toss handbills to the floor when there was a piece of discarded watermelon rind on the floor, compared to experimental conditions in which the floor was completely free of litter or when handbills were already scattered on the floor.One single piece of watermelon rind significantly reduced littering because it served to remind participants

According to information in your text, at what income level does happiness become stable no matter how much more money a person makes?

According to work on "flow" and happiness presented in your text, when is someone likely to be the happiest?

Based on what the authors of your text report on affective forecasting, how good are we at predicting what will make us happy in the future?

A group of five students is sharing a house.Each student likes to take long, hot showers in the morning, but when they do, there is not enough hot water for their housemates.Which of the following will be LEAST successful in getting the students to take shorter showers?

Kurt Lewin is considered to be the

When someone has a goal he or she is trying to achieve, the research presented in your text would suggest that people are happiest when they

The authors of your text present correlational evidence showing that people who are happier tend to spend more time with others.Which of the following is NOT a valid explanation for this correlation?

According to information from your text, people who emphasize the importance of money and possessions are

Based on the idea of "flow" presented in your text, which of the following people is likely to be the happiest?

Social psychologists are poised to help find solutions to applied psychological problems.What are two reasons why?

Based on research in your text, burn victims who did not undergo CISD were ________ than those who did.

Gonzales, Aronson, and Costanzo (1988) trained home energy auditors to describe uninsulated attics as "naked," and to point out that small cracks lose as much heat as a hole the size of a football in the living room wall.Compared to homeowners exposed to the typical appeal, those exposed to the new appeals were more likely to follow the auditors' recommendations.Why? The new appeals

A college wants to reduce traffic and congestion on campus, while at the same time reducing carbon emissions.Based on research presented in this chapter, which of the following approaches would most likely be successful?

Which of the following is NOT a controllable aspect of your life that can influence happiness, as discussed by the authors of your text?

Assume that you are part of a student group trying to persuade others to recycle more.You plan to go door-to-door in residence halls and to use cognitive dissonance to change recycling behaviors.How would you do this, and why would your strategy work?