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202040 Fall 2020 PSYC 312-D08 LUO Quiz 1

Question 1 2 out of 2 points

The word “construal” refers to

Selected Answer: 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

Selected Answer: 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

Selected Answer: 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

Selected Answer: 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

Selected Answer: 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

Selected Answer: 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?

Selected Answer: The experimenter is not manipulating anything.

Question 20 2 out of 2 points

One problem with informed consent is that

Selected Answer: 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

Selected Answer: 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....