WCC PSYCH EXAM |111 Questions with Verified Answers,100% CORRECT
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WCC PSYCH EXAM |111 Questions with Verified Answers
Those who consider under-the-skin (i.e., biological) and between the skins (i.e., social) influences on topics such as love and hate are referred to as - CORRECT ANSWER social neuroscientists.
Your decision to call someone a "terrorist" rath...
WCC PSYCH EXAM |111 Questions with Verified Answers
Those who consider under-the-skin (i.e., biological) and between the skins (i.e.,
social) influences on topics such as love and hate are referred to as - CORRECT
ANSWER social neuroscientists.
Your decision to call someone a "terrorist" rather than a "freedom fighter"
depends on your view of the cause. This is an example of how values can
influence not only social psychology, but also - CORRECT ANSWER everyday
language.
An experimenter exposed participants to different room temperatures to
determine their effects on aggression. Aggression was the - CORRECT ANSWER
dependent variable
A person can make a confident guess about your attitude toward the 2003 U.S.
war with Iraq if he knows your educational level and what media you watch and
read. This is an example of - CORRECT ANSWER the power of the situation.
Research indicates that survey results often depend on the - CORRECT ANSWER
wording and order of the questions.
Social representations are - CORRECT ANSWER socially shared beliefs, including
our assumptions and cultural ideologies.
The use of deception in social-psychological research occurs when the researchers
require _____ in their study. - CORRECT ANSWER experimental realism
A major requirement of the ethical principles of social-psychological research is
that the researcher - CORRECT ANSWER protect participants from harm and
significant discomfort.
Regarding social-psychological research, we must be cautious about - CORRECT
ANSWER generalizing from the laboratory to life.
, In Snyder and Haugen's research on obesity and social status (1994; 1993), male
students were shown a picture of a normal or obese woman before having a
conversation with a female student. In this study, the independent variable was
the - CORRECT ANSWER normal or overweight woman's picture
A researcher is interested in studying how attitudes toward homosexuals,
bisexuals and transsexuals are a function of one's geographical location in the
United States. This researcher is likely a - CORRECT ANSWER social psychologist.
The difference between facts and theories is that - CORRECT ANSWER theories
explain facts.
_____ occurs in research when participants are misinformed or misled about the
method and purposes of the study. - CORRECT ANSWER Deception
You are participating in a psychology research experiment and the researcher
invites you to return after the experiment to learn more about it and to explore
your feelings about it. This is called - CORRECT ANSWER debriefing
The degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants in real
psychological processes refers to - CORRECT ANSWER experimental realism.
A(n) _____ is most likely to rely upon experiments to investigate a topic. -
CORRECT ANSWER social psychologist
According to the text, social psychology is defined as the scientific study of how
people - CORRECT ANSWER think about, influence and relate to one another.
In 1936, the news magazine Literary Digest obtained the opinions of over two
million Americans regarding the presidential election. The results suggested that
Landon would win in a landslide over Franklin D. Roosevelt. A few weeks later,
FDR won in a landslide. The results of the survey were not valid, and this was due
to - CORRECT ANSWER a sampling bias
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