d.language and culture - c. scientific methodology
(lecture 1)
A key critique of social psychology is that it ignores...?
a. Theory
b. Context
c. Scientific method
d. Groups - b. Context
(lecture 1)
Experimental studies...
a. Have low external validity and low internal validity
b. Have low external validity and high internal validity
c. Have high external validity and low internal validity
d. Have high external validity and high internal validity - b. Have low external validity
and high internal validity
(lecture 1)
,A study in which participants are likely to express concern about climate change
because they know I study climate change could be said to be affected by...
a. Methodological pluralism
b. Social conformity
c. Demand characteristics
d. Confounding effects - c. Demand characteristics
(lecture 1)
Positivism is...
a. focusing on the positive aspects of the data no matter what
b. looking for significant results in your data
c. using scientific methods to better society
d. the non-critical acceptance of scientific method - d. the non-critical acceptance of
scientific method
(lecture 1)
The spreading activation account of processes underlying implicit tasks says that...?
a. Automatic responses to a prime stimulus conflicts with the response to the target
stimulus
b. A prime stimulus activates other familiar stimuli
c. The prime stimulus and the target stimulus produce facilitating responses
d. The prime stimulus re-activates other stimuli that have recently been active - c. The
prime stimulus and the target stimulus produce facilitating responses
(lecture 2)
Which theory states that explicit and implicit measures of attitude are different ways of
measuring the same thing?
a. Single attitude model
b. Dual attitude model
, c. Tripartite model of attitudes
d. Affective model of attitudes - a. Single attitude model
(lecture 2)
When an issue is important to me, which kind of information processing am I likely to
use?
a. Emotional processing
b. Peripheral processing
c. Heuristic processing
d. Systematic processing - d. Systematic processing
(lecture 2)
A message that provokes high levels of fear may be ineffective because...?
a. The message will be processed too quickly
b. The recipient will try harder to act
c. The recipient may not be convinced of the need to act
d. It may produce an avoidant response from the recipient - d. It may produce an
avoidant response from the recipient
(lecture 2)
How might someone reduce cognitive dissonance?
a. Change their behaviour to be more consistent with their beliefs
b. Compare their feelings with a peer
c. Stop listening to the Communicator
d. Attempt to process the information more carefully - a. Change their behaviour to be
more consistent with their beliefs
(lecture 2)
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