202040 Fall 2020 PSYC 312-D08 LUO
Quiz 1
Question 1
2 out of 2 points
The word “construal” refers to
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personal interpretations.
Question 2
2 out of 2 points
According to the authors of your text, people’s evaluations of how good, competent, and decent
they are is the definition of __________.
Selected Answer:
self-esteem
Question 3
2 out of 2 points
The tendency most people have to discount situational explanations of behavior in favor of
personality characteristics or traits is called the __________.
Selected Answer:
fundamental attribution error
Question 4
2 out of 2 points
The whole is different from the sum of its parts. This statement reflects a tenet of __________
psychology.
Selected Answer:
Gestalt
Question 5
2 out of 2 points
Social psychologists have identified two motives that are of primary importance in explaining
our thoughts and behaviors. According to your textbook authors, these are the need to ________
and the need to ________.
Selected Answer:
be as accurate as possible; feel good about ourselves
Question 6
2 out of 2 points
When Monique plays checkers with her younger sister, she lets her sister win. When she plays
with her older brother, she does everything she can to beat him. A social psychologist would
suggest that
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Monique is responding to different social situations.
Question 7
2 out of 2 points
Amber and Jules are friends but differ in how neat they keep their rooms. According to
personality psychologists, the distinction between the friends can be referred to as a(n)
Selected Answer:
individual difference.
Question 8
2 out of 2 points
Lee Ross describes the idea of “naïve realism” as the
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conviction that all of us have that we perceive things “as they really are.”
Question 9
2 out of 2 points
The social cognition approach is based on the notion that humans are often motivated to
Selected Answer:
be accurate in their perceptions and inferences.
Question 10
2 out of 2 points
How people select, interpret, remember, and use information to make judgments and decisions is
called __________.
Selected Answer:
social cognition
Question 11
2 out of 2 points
Social psychologists tend to be more focused on __________, and personality psychologists tend
to focus more on __________.
Selected Answer:
the influence of the situation; individual differences
Question 12
2 out of 2 points
All of the following are examples of social influence except
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you perceive the bathwater as hot when you first get in, but don’t notice the heat ten minutes
later.
Question 13
2 out of 2 points
Rahid’s server in the restaurant just can’t seem to get his order right. If Rahid is thinking like a
social psychologist, what would he be most likely to think?
Selected Answer:
“This person must have had a bad morning.”
Question 14
2 out of 2 points
A researcher hired by a department store wants to examine whether manipulating the room
temperature to be hotter as opposed to cooler causes an increase in sales of air conditioners. The
best method for answering this question would be
Selected Answer:
experimental.
Question 15
2 out of 2 points
In a study of group dynamics, participants were placed in groups consisting of either three or ten
people. During the study, group members worked together trying to solve a puzzle. After
completing the task, participants reported how satisfied they were with the other members of
their group. ________ is the independent variable in this study.
Selected Answer:
Group size
Question 16
2 out of 2 points
When researchers examine a social psychological phenomenon using cross-cultural research,
they are enhancing
Selected Answer:
external validity.
Question 17
2 out of 2 points
When a researcher examines several replications of a phenomenon, he would be most likely to
examine these data using the statistical technique of
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meta-analysis.
Question 18
2 out of 2 points
A researcher wants to examine the relationship between viewing television violence and
behaving aggressively. He has participants decide whether they would prefer to view a violent or
a nonviolent film, and subsequently records the number of aggressive behaviors they show in a
competitive game. The researcher cannot legitimately make a causal statement based on his
findings, because the study
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lacks random assignment.
Question 19
2 out of 2 points
If a researcher were to observe women exercising and then men exercising and compare these
groups, why would this not be considered an experiment?
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The experimenter is not manipulating anything.
Question 20
2 out of 2 points
One problem with informed consent is that
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full knowledge of the experiment’s purpose can alter participants’ behavior.
Question 21
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following pairs of variables are most likely to be positively correlated?
Selected Answer:
consumption of fatty foods; risk of heart disease
Question 22
2 out of 2 points
Ethnography can be defined as the method by which researchers attempt to understand a group
or culture by
Selected Answer:
observing it from the inside, without imposing any preconceived notions.
Question 23
2 out of 2 points
By controlling all extraneous variables and by randomly assigning people to different
experimental conditions, an experimenter can achieve high
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internal validity.
Question 24
2 out of 2 points
A researcher wants to see if there is a relationship between a person’s birth order and his or her
leadership ability. The best method for answering this question would be
Selected Answer:
correlational.
Question 25
2 out of 2 points
There is a moderately strong correlation between the number of bars in a town and the number of
churches in a town. As it turns out, this correlation is due to the correlation of both numbers of
bars and number of churches with town population. This illustrates which of the following?
Correlations are
Selected Answer:
no guarantee of causation.
