Exam 1: The Mission and the Method

Social psychology has been LEAST influenced by the branch of psychology known as ____________________ psychology until recently.

In recent years, the line between social psychology and ____ has become especially blurred.

When an experimenter wants to investigate the impact of two independent variables at the same time they will need to use a(n)____________________.

Correlation coefficients are statistics used to denote ____.

Most contemporary research in social psychology is based on college student samples.

In social psychology, the notation " $p$ <.05" signifies ____________________.

There is a moderately strong, positive relationship between different forms of prejudice: People who are prejudiced against Group X also tend to be prejudiced against Group Y. Given this information, we should expect the correlation between anti-Jewish prejudice and anti-Asian prejudice to be about ____.

According to the textbook, psychology can be thought of as a kind of "experimental philosophy" because psychology ____ while relying on the experimental method.

Social psychology was in existence as a field roughly 100 years before Freudian psychoanalysis.

The study of human culture-the shared values, beliefs, and practices of a group of people-is known as ____________________.

When an experiment includes more than one independent variable, it is using a(n) ____.

Which of the following branches of psychology is MOST closely affiliated with social psychology?

Suppose that you are conducting an experiment to see whether receiving negative feedback from an authority figure will increase eating behavior. After writing an essay, half of your research participants are given negative feedback from a professor, and half are given encouraging feedback. All participants are then placed in a room with a large container of cookies and their eating behavior is observed. In this study, an operational definition for the dependent variable might be ____.

Although sociologists and social psychologists are both interested in group behavior, sociologists tend to focus on ____, whereas social psychologists tend to focus on ____.

Which of the following would constitute the BEST random sample of a university population?

Dr. Hurtado and Dr. Yashari have recently conducted a study and found a positive correlation between music-listening and dancing ability: People who listen to lots of music tend to be excellent dancers. The correlation is statistically significant. Can they conclude that listening to music causes people to be better dancers? Why or why not?

Psychologists typically use a statistic called ____ to denote the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables.

Social psychologists usually derive their hypotheses from existing theories.

In recent years, what has emerged as an important subfield of social psychology that explores the ways in which people think about social situations?

Which of the following fields is LEAST focused on what happens in the brain, nervous system, and other bodily processes?