Exam 1: The Mission and the Method

According to the textbook, is most social psychological research high in external validity? Why or why not? How big of a problem is cultural relativity for social psychology as a field, and what steps are researchers taking to address it?

Following the collapse of the Soviet empire in 1989, social psychology's focus on conflict ____.

The scientific method used by social psychologists is ____.

What do we call the field that combines the interests of social and biological psychology?

Laela is interested in studying how our thoughts and behaviors are influenced by the groups to which we belong. Laela's work will MOST closely intersect with which other social science?

Repeating an experiment is called ____________________.

With which of the following social sciences has social psychology had the LEAST interaction until recently?

Suppose that you are a research participant in a laboratory study that is looking at fear and social support. The researcher shows you an extremely scary movie and then asks you whether you feel like talking to anyone (and if so, who) once the movie is over. Although you are in a laboratory setting the whole time, which does not resemble "real life" at all, you become engrossed in the procedures of the study and almost forget that you are in a study. Thus, in your experience, this study is ____.

In social psychology, researchers typically test hypotheses using the ____ confidence level.

When people work on a task jointly with someone else (e.g., putting together a large bookcase), each person tends to put in ____________________ effort than he or she would if working alone.

Ed just stole $50 from his parents. In assessing Ed's motives, which of the following questions would a social psychologist be MOST likely to ask?

In a ____, the researcher is able to manipulate an independent variable but NOT able to use random assignment.

The ability of a measure to predict an outcome that should be related to the measure is ____ validity.

Johnna is examining how attitudes predict voting behavior. Her research will MOST likely involve an intersection of social psychology and what other social science?

Reliability is to ____ as validity is to ____.

Most social psychological research has been conducted in the U.S. and a few very similar nations. According to the textbook, how well do findings generalize to other cultures?

Which of the following would be the BEST operational definition for tiredness?

Which of the following is the best example of "cognition"?

A person who is secretly working for an experimenter to help create a particular situation is called a(n) ____________________.

What is the main advantage of an experiment over a correlational study?