Quiz: Introduction to Social
televised reality.
mundane realism.
experimental realism.
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Question 2
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You ask your academic advisor what to major in because you are finding it
difficult to decide. She suggests psychology. Before you decide to follow her
suggestion, it is important to remember that this answer likely reflects her:
training.
education.
perceptions.
Psychology
Question 1
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The degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants is
known as:
realistic experimentation.
personal values.
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Question 3
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If you ask conservative, liberal, independent, and Green Party voters their opinions
of political candidates, rather than just conservative voters, you are attempting to
ensure that your sample is:
fair.
sufficient.
representative.
random.
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They are the results of an individual's own understanding of the world.
They are primary motivators for action.
Question 4
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Identify a true statement about attitudes and personality.
They influence behavior.
They are inherited biologically.
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Question 5
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When participating in a psychology research experiment, you are told that the
purpose of the study is to find out if tall people are more prejudiced than short
people. Because you want to behave accordingly, you agree with the questions on
the survey of prejudice more than you would otherwise. Your behavior in this
study is most likely the result of:
your true attitudes.
your repressed attitudes.
the demand characteristics of the experiment.
the sampling method of the experiment.
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Y causes X.
Question 6
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Variable X is correlated with variable Y. Which of the following could
potentially explain this correlation?
X causes Y.
A third variable causes or influences both X and Y.
All of the answers are correct.
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Intuitions require one to adopt the approach of conscious reasoning.
Intuitions are also known as conscious information processing.
Intuitions are routinely powerful and sometimes perilous.
Intuitions depend on objective reality rather than subjective reality.
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Question 8
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Standing in a campus courtyard with a clipboard to record your observations of
students' usage of their cell phones is an example of what type of research?
qualitative research
Question 7
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In the context of social psychology, identify a true statement about
intuitions.
experimental research
laboratory research
field research
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Question 9
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In research, a strategy by which participants are misinformed or misled about the
study's methods and purposes is known as:
counterbalancing.
operant conditioning.
deception.
replication.
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Question 10
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In the context of social psychology, which of the following statements
illustrates deception?
James misinforms the participants about his research study's purpose and method.
Amina provides clues to the participants of her experiment to tell what behavior is
expected of them.
Hannah asks questions to the participants of her experiment about their
understanding.
Feng repeats his research study with different participants to get an accurate result.
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present the results of their experiments.
summarize their studies.
choose the topics of their studies.
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Question 11
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Values enter social psychology when researchers:
collect data for their studies.
common environment.
controlled situation.
field setting.
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Question 13
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In an experiment, the outcome being measured is called the _____ variable.
experimental
control
independent
dependent
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Question 12
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Laboratory research is an example of research in a:
correlational context.
Question 14
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The finding that obese women earned lower salaries than women in a nonobese
comparison group was most likely the result of which type of research study?
experimental
correlational
laboratory
qualitative
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Question 15
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Research indicates that survey results often depend on the:
number of questions asked.
gender of the surveyor.
gender of the respondent.
wording of the questions.
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ambiguity of results.
ability to extract the influence of confounded variables.
tendency to occur in real-world settings.
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Our personality disposition affects our choices.
Our inherited human nature predisposes us to react in certain ways.
Our political attitudes influence our voting behavior.
Our standards regarding promptness, openness, and clothing vary across different
cultures.
Question 16
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The great strength of correlational research is the:
cause-effect sequencing of events.
Question 17
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Which of the following is an example of how our attitudes and behavior are
shaped by external social forces?
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Question 18
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A social psychologist's personal convictionsabout what is desirable and how
people ought to behave are known as his or her:
intuitions.
hypotheses.
values.
memoirs.
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give a default option of 'yes' and a space to check "opt out."
give a default option of 'no' and a space to check donate.
give them a 'yes' or 'no' choice to check.
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Question 19
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If you wanted more people to donate their organs when they die, you would:
put nothing on their drivers' licenses about organ donation.
roughly predict one variable’s effects on another variable.
uncover independent variables.
control variables.
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Question 21
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A psychiatrist is interested in determining if conditions of individuals who are
clinically depressed improve with either 20 or 40 milligrams of Prozac. She
administers 20 milligrams to a random half of her clients and 40 milligrams to the
other half. After six months, she finds that the clients who took 40 milligrams of
Prozac are significantly less depressed than those clients who took 20 milligrams
of Prozac. Which type of study did the psychiatrist conduct?
correlational research
experimental research
controlled research
Question 20
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Correlational research allows us to:
infer cause and effect.
hypothetical research
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independent
dependent
correlational
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Question 23
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You are participating in a social psychological research experiment and the
researcher reads the instructions to you and the other participants so that all of you
hear the same instructions. By standardizing the instructions, the researcher is
attempting to control the:
dependent variable.
experimental outcome.
Question 22
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The experimental factor that a researcher manipulates in a study is called
the _____ variable.
control
demand characteristics.
framing effect.
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Question 24
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A society's widely held ideas and values, including assumptions and cultural
ideologies, are known as:
national diversities.
racial inclinations.
social representations.
general moralities.
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It helps in the understanding of the purpose of life.
Question 25
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Identify a true statement about social psychology.
It answers one's ultimate questions about life.
It is about beliefs, attitudes, and relationships.
It helps in understanding an individual's ultimate destiny.
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