Exam 1: The Mission and the Method

How are social psychologists generally similar to behaviorists?

According to the textbook, the key distinction between philosophy and psychology is the fact that psychology ____.

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

Which of the following fields is MOST concerned with understanding different human cultures?

When experiments are conducted outside of the laboratory, in real-world settings, they are called ____.

If a study is high in external validity, then ____.

When psychologists talk about "cognitions," they are typically referring to ____.

In one of the first social psychological experiments ever conducted, researcher Norman Triplett examined the records of teams of cyclists. He found that cyclists who raced against each other ____ than those who raced alone (against the clock).

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?

Which branch of psychology is primarily concerned with thought processes (e.g., how memory works and what people notice)?

Almost all research requires that researchers provide participants with a(n) ____.

While social psychologists are interested in a wide variety of topics, three themes that have become increasingly important during the last 30 years are ____.

When did social psychology begin to come into its own as a field?

In one of the first social psychological experiments ever conducted, researcher Max Ringelmann observed men as they pulled on a rope either alone, as part of a small group, or as part of a large group. He found that as the size of the group increased, ____.

In survey research, the total number of people under consideration is called the ____.

Suppose that you conducted an experiment to test the effects of violence in TV shows on the aggressiveness in children. The dependent variable in this study would be ____.

As typically conceptualized, the scientific method consists of approximately ____ basic steps.

As discussed in the textbook, the main weakness with correlational research (as opposed to experimental research) is that the researcher cannot draw conclusions about ____________________.

When findings from a study are likely to generalize to other people and other settings, the study is said to have ____.

The first step in the scientific method is to ____.