Exam 2: Methodology: How Social Psychologists Do Research

Based on information from your text, basic research is to ________ as applied research is to ________.

According to the authors of your text, archival research can tell researchers about

According to the authors of your text, when Bibb Latané and John Darley began to seriously consider why no one helped Kitty Genovese during her brutal attack, they hypothesized that the explanation was that

One evolutionary psychologist hypothesizes that humans were savage in their distant past, while another hypothesizes that they were very cooperative.Based on information from the authors of your text, which hypothesis is correct?

Recall that Latané and Darley (1968) studied bystander intervention by having participants overhear a seizure while they were speaking on headphones with another discussant.Assuming that the participants believed that the seizure was real and felt anxious and confused about whether and how to help when they heard the seizure, Latané and Darley's (1968) experiment was

How is a field experiment different from a lab experiment? Laboratory experiments require ________, but field experiments do not.

Professor Yarnofsky wonders whether recent acts of airline terrorism have made the public more fearful of airline flight.He secures records of the amount of flight insurance that people have purchased via machines at the airport, and compares the records of insurance purchases before the last hijacking to purchases after the last hijacking.Professor Yarnofsky has employed a(n) ________ research method.

________ is defined by the authors of your text as an experiment conducted in natural settings rather than in the laboratory.

The effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable is most like which of the following?

A researcher is interested in the changing nature of sex roles in contemporary society.If she were to employ an archival analysis, what would she be most likely to do?

Which of the following article titles most reflects basic as opposed to applied research?

One main reason why social psychologists may elect to use deception in their studies is that it

Julia reads a research study which shows that when children have a mother who talks about emotions with them, the children tend to be more empathetic.Julia scoffs, "This is obvious; I could have told you that!" Julia's reaction to the study is an example of

According to information from the registrar's office, Lee has discovered that people who score higher on the SAT tend to have a higher GPA in their first year of college.Lee has used a(n) ________ research method.

What happens during a typical postexperimental debriefing?

Complete the analogy: correlation: __________ as experiment: __________.

One reason why it is important to examine cultural influences on social psychological processes is that

An experimenter conducts a program of research to determine what types of messages are most effective in promoting condom use among adolescents.How would you classify this type of research?

In the 2000 presidential election, the polls of upper-middle-class Americans tended to show Bush leading Gore by a landslide.When election night came, the final results were closer than had been predicted, and it turned out that Gore won the popular vote while Bush won the more critical Electoral College vote.One possible problem with the earlier survey results was that they relied primarily on polls of upper-middle-class people.This illustrates the finding that a major problem with surveys is

Compare the goals of researchers who use the observational method, the correlational method, and the experimental method.Provide an example of a question that is best addressed by each method.