Exam 1: The Mission and the Method

How has the textbook described the historical relationship between clinical psychology and social psychology?

Researchers often attempt to design studies that will be high in both experimental realism and mundane realism. However, ____.

Which of the following topics is a personality psychologist MOST likely to study?

Which of the following would a basic researcher MOST LIKELY study?

In one well-known social psychological study, research participants were asked to make very easy perceptual judgments ("Is Line A longer than Line B?"). The catch was that they were asked to do this while sitting around a table with people who continually gave incorrect responses-people who appeared to be other regular research participants. In reality, however, the other people at the table were not real participants at all; they were actually actors who were working for the experimenter and just posing as participants. The question in this research was whether or not the real research participant would conform to the group's opinion (even though the group's opinion was obviously wrong) or whether the real participant would stick to the right answer. In psychological jargon, the "actors" in this study would be referred to as ____.

Political science is BEST described as the study of ____.

In psychology, the word "confederate" is used to refer to ____.

Can correlational studies or experiments ever be conducted outside of the laboratory?

Social psychology primarily relies on the experimental method.

Within psychology, ____ typically focus on "abnormal" behavior (e.g., mental disorders and behavioral disorders).

Zhao's research interest is to determine if poverty causes one to be more politically liberal. However, he cannot randomly assign people to conditions of poverty versus wealth because (aside from the practical difficulty) it would be unethical to do so. Zhao will have to ____.

A correlation coefficient communicates two pieces of information about the relationship between two variables: The ____ communicates the direction of the relationship, and the ____ communicates the strength of the relationship.

Today, both funded and unfunded studies conducted at universities must first obtain ____ approval.

Which of the following topics would a cognitive psychologist be MOST likely to study?

How are social psychologists generally similar to behaviorists?

The study of how people change across their lives from conception to death is the purview of ____.

According to the textbook, social psychology's reliance on college student samples ____.

If a researcher tested 1000 people and found that women received significantly higher scores on the verbal portion of the SAT than did men, this would mean that ____.

In psychology, an "affect" is most similar to ____.

The first step in the scientific method is to ____.