Exam 1: The Mission and the Method

According to the textbook, "common sense" theories about social psychology are ____.

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.

Which of the following fields is concerned with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?

Today, ____ studies conducted at universities must first obtain institutional review board approval.

Which of the following research designs allows researchers the MOST control over the variables they are studying?

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

"An idea or explanation for something that is based on known facts but not yet proven" is known as a(n) ____.

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

Random assignment is one of the defining features of correlational research.

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 _____.

Using more than one exemplar of a stimulus (such as more than one violent video game in a study investigating violent video content on aggression) is known as ____.

Compared to true experiments, MOST correlational studies are low in ____.

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 ____.

You want to ask your friend Maya to help you with your sorority's float for the competition in the homecoming parade next week. Maya is extremely reliable and trustworthy, but she is totally swamped with her internship and upcoming midterm exams. You decide not to ask her since she might be too busy to follow through. According to Kurt Lewin's analysis of human behavior, knowing that Maya is reliable is an example of "____" information, and knowing she is busy is an example of "____" information.

Correlation coefficients are used to describe the relationship between two variables. They are usually denoted using the letter ____.

Until recently, what was the relationship between developmental and social psychology?

Repeating an experiment is called ____________________.

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

Dr. Puni does not want the participants in his study to be aware of his hypothesis. What will he strive to reduce in his study?

The purposes of the oral or written statement participants receive at the end of a psychological study include _____.