Exam 1: The Mission and the Method

At what point in the history of social psychology did social psychologists become interested in the biological aspects of social behavior?

True experiments have two key features that make them different from other studies. First, in a true experiment, the researcher manipulates (varies) one or more independent variables. Second, the researcher makes use of ____________________.

Who proposed the idea that behavior is a function of both the person and the situation in the first half of the 20th century?

According to the textbook, what is one major reason people study social psychology?

For which psychometric property must you have a person complete the measure in question more than one time?

If a researcher conducts an experiment in which the independent variable is poorly defined (i.e., has a poor operational definition), then the experiment can be said to have ____.

The measure of the amount of random sampling error in a survey's result is known as ____.

Compare and contrast the experimental method with the correlational method. How do these two approaches differ, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Which of the following is an example of an "emotion"?

An interaction effect refers to the ____.

Most social psychologists perform research by ____.

Consider the following two American adages, which seem to contradict one another: "Birds of a feather flock together" and "opposites attract." The authors of the textbook would probably say that ____.

If you conduct a study and predict that X causes Y, then X is the ____.

Given Max Ringlemann's early research looking at group size and individual effort, should we expect Student X to put in a different amount of effort depending on whether she worked on a history project in a five-person group rather than a two-person group?

Compared to laboratory experiments, field experiments tend to be ____.

Applied researchers are BEST defined as social scientists who ____.

During the era in which social psychology was emerging as a discipline, it was caught between two opposing camps: behaviorism and Freudian psychoanalysis. Explain how social psychology did not fit neatly into either of those camps, and how it ultimately integrated features from both as it emerged as an independent field.

Compare and contrast social psychology with two related fields outside of psychology (e.g., sociology, anthropology).

Explain the self-correcting nature of science.

Replication is an important part of ____.