Exam 1: The Mission and the Method

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

MOST social psychological research has been conducted in ____.

During the first half of the 20th century, who argued that attitudes were the most important and useful concept in social psychology?

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 ____.

Replication is essential to the self-correcting nature of science.

When there is no relationship between two variables, the correlation coefficient is ____.

Dr. Khanmohamed is conducting a research project with young children to examine the effect of the exposure to different cultural groups on the development of empathy. The independent variable in this research is ____.

Many areas of study in social psychology evoke a lot of passion from the researchers invested in that arena. Although doing research to make the world a better place is great motivation, one of the hazards of this motive is that ____.

Martin believes that his blue coat is warmer than his red coat. Ted thinks that he might want to have kids sometime in the next few years. Yesi remembers playing baseball with her friends as a child. These are all examples of ____.

Suppose that you are working as a research assistant for a social psychologist. To assist her with a research study, the social psychologist asks you to stand in a laboratory waiting room with research participants, act as though you are a research participant yourself, and then pretend to have an epileptic seizure. (The social psychologist is interested in how many people will try to help you.) In other words, your task is to be a ____ in the research.

When a researcher conducts an experiment and is fairly certain that changes in the independent variable caused changes in the dependent variable, that experiment is said to be high in ____.

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

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

When a researcher conducts an experiment, and is fairly certain that changes in the independent variable caused changes in the dependent variable, that experiment is said to be high in ____________________.

Dr. Tsuei is studying the effects of sleep deprivation on interpersonal skills. He is testing the interpersonal skills of 20-25 year-old males who have been sleep deprived for 24 hours, 36 hours, or 48 hours. In this study, the dependent variable is the ____.

In social psychology, the "ABC triad" refers to ____________________, ____________________, and____________________.

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

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

If a study is high in internal validity, then the researcher can be fairly certain that changes in the ____ were indeed due to changes in the ____.

After participants have been deliberately deceived in an experiment, ethical standards require that they be ____.