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PSYC 215 Questions & Detailed Answers
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- PSYC 215
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PSYC 215 Questions & Detailed Answers
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PSYC 215 Questions & Detailed AnswersIn thinking about the history of social psychology, which of the following social
psychological phenomena is considered to be the first to have been explored using
the scientific method and shared with the scientific community? - ANS How
performance is affected by the presence of others
Economist Lee Biggerstaff of Miami University used a database of US golfers to
analyze how often CEO's (top executives of companies) play golf. He found which
of the following correlations in his analysis of CEO golfers? The more golf a CEO
plays, - ANS the more likely they are to get fired
Based on what you read about social psychology and common sense, is the
following social psychological finding true or false?
People tend to overestimate how similar their opinions or interests are to others -
ANS True
Based on what you read about social psychology and common sense, is the
following social psychological finding true or false?
Good looking people tend to be perceived as less intelligent than physically
unattractive people - ANS False
According to (the) _______________, objects can maintain their identity as long as
the change is gradual and the object's form/shape is maintained. - ANS
Spatiotemporal continuity theory
,What world occurrence is considered to have sparked an explosion of interest in
social psychology, establishing it as a major field of psychological inquiry? - ANS
WW2
The "hot" perspective in the field of social psychology refers to - ANS the role of
emotions in explaining social psychological issues
According to Malcolm Gladwell, the host of the broadcast, golf clubs in Los Angeles
are basically __________ institutions. - ANS aristocratic
Alyssa Fu and Hazel Markus (2004) conducted a study to examine cultural
differences in motivation. They asked Asian-American and European-American
students to complete a hard word task and then told each of them that they
performed badly. Next, they asked half of the students to describe their mother
and the other half to describe themselves. Finally, all students were given the
chance to work on the hard word task a second time. What did these researchers
find? - ANS When Asian-American students were made to think of their mothers,
they tended to work harder on the second word task than European-American
students
The Ship of Theseus is a famous thought experiment conceived by the philosopher
Plutarch. This thought problem tries to answer which ultimate question? - ANS
whether an object maintains its identity if its component parts are completely
replaced
, Dr. Tali Sharot conducted an experiment with two groups: participants who
believed in climate change and participants who were skeptics. In this study, she
found that ... - ANS All people strengthened their pre-existing beliefs when new
information confirmed what they thought
______________ refers to the extent to which the materials and procedures
involved in an experiment are similar to the events in the real world. - ANS
Mundane Reality
The extent to which the measures used in a study measure the variables they were
designed to measure and the manipulations in an experiment manipulate the
variables they were designed to manipulate - ANS Construct validity
The effects produced when an experimenter's expectations about the results of an
experiment affect his or her behavior toward a participant and thereby influence
the participant's responses. - ANS Experimenter expectancy effect
The degree to which experimental procedures are involving to participants and
lead them to behave naturally and spontaneously. - ANS Experimenter realism
The degree to which there can be reasonable certainty that the independent
variables in an experiment caused the effects obtained on the dependent
variables. - ANS Internal validity
Identify the difference between an experimental study and a correlational study. -
ANS Only experiments examine cause and effect relationships
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