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PSYCH 350 EXAM 1 – QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
PSYCH 350 EXAM 1 – QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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PSYCH 350 EXAM 1 – QUESTIONS & ANSWERSSocial psychology is defined as the scientific study of how people ✔️Ans -
think about, influence, and relate to one another
Social psychologists study ✔️Ans - attraction, conformity, and attitudes
The best statement about objective reality is ✔️Ans - that reality is
filtered by our values and beliefs
Myers points out that our social behavior is shaped by ✔️Ans - other
people, our attitudes and personality, and our biology.
When asked who you think will win the next presidential election, you
reply that you do not know. However, after the election results are
reported, you claim that it was obvious all along. This is an example of the
✔️Ans - hindsight bias
A theory ✔️Ans - summarizes and explains facts
A testable proposition that describes a relationship which may exist
between events is a ✔️Ans - hypothesis
Asking students to come to a laboratory at 3 p.m. in order to participate in
a study on university students' usage of cellular phones is an example of
what type of research? ✔️Ans - laboratory research
In order to determine whether or not changing one variable (such as
education) will produce changes in another (such as income), one needs to
conduct _______ research ✔️Ans - experimental
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 ✔️Ans - representative
The belief that others are paying more attention to one's appearance and
behavior than they actually are is referred to as the _____ effect ✔️Ans -
spotlight
, John is nervous about his tennis match, but he still stays out late instead of
getting a good night's sleep the night before the match. This could be an
example of ✔️Ans - self-handicapping
The planning fallacy is the tendency to ✔️Ans - underestimate how long
a task will take.
Most people with high self-esteem value individual achievement and
relationships with others. Narcissists value ✔️Ans - individual
achievement
____ are mental templates by which we organize our worlds ✔️Ans -
schemas
According to the self-serving bias, we tend to attribute our successes to
_______ and our losses to _______. ✔️Ans - skill, chance
Mark knows that he is an excellent liar but he doesn't feel very good about
himself in general. Mark is likely to score _____ on measures of self-esteem
and _____ on measures of self-efficacy ✔️Ans - low, high
The extent to which we evaluate our abilities and opinions by comparing
ourselves to others is called ✔️Ans - social comparison
A person from a(n) _____ culture is more likely to say, "We went to the
movies," and a person from a(n) _____ culture is more likely to say, "I went
to the movie." ✔️Ans - collectivistic, individualistic
According to the text, self-esteem typically _____ in Japanese exchange
students after they spend several months at a Canadian university. This
suggests that self-concepts become more individualized after visiting
Western countries ✔️Ans - increases
Activating particular associations in memory is called ✔️Ans - priming
Your best friend is a master chess player and has won numerous awards.
When you play chess with her, you notice that she seems to be aware of
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