Mutliple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions


1	Social psychology is
		A)	the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another.
		B)	the scientific study of how people act.
		C)	the scientific study of how people love and hate.
		D)	the scientific study of how people understand and conflict with one another.


2	Social psychology _______________________ than personality psychology.
		A)	has more famous theorists
		B)	focuses on the differences between individuals more
		C)	has a shorter history
		D)	focuses on the private internal functioning between individuals more


3	The text states that social psychology
		A)	is the most important perspective in viewing and understanding ourselves.
		B)	is one important perspective from which we can view and understand ourselves.
		C)	is the real explanation that lets us understand and view ourselves.
		D)	is an inclusive perspective from which we can view and understand ourselves.


4	The text states that values
		A)	enter the picture with our choice of research topics.
		B)	are unimportant in the study of social psychology.
		C)	do not influence the type of people attracted to various academic disciplines.
		D)	tell us which ones are right.


5	Social representations are
		A)	the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a group of people.
		B)	objective situations.
		C)	object representations of real world actions.
		D)	our most important and most unexamined convictions.


6	Naturalist fallacy is
		A)	the error of defining what is good in terms of what is observable.
		B)	a flawed scientific description.
		C)	that all psychology can be defined through nature.
		D)	the error of defining what is normal is observable.


7	Hindsight bias
		A)	is conducive to an underestimation of our own intellectual powers.
		B)	shows that common sense is nearly always scientifically wrong.
		C)	is the tendency to exaggerate after learning an outcome.
		D)	is the tendency to see the objective situation incorrectly.


8	A testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events is
		A)	hypothesis.
		B)	theory.
		C)	research topic.
		D)	direction to research.


9	The study of the naturally occurring relationships among variables is
		A)	experimental research.
		B)	correlational research.
		C)	field research.
		D)	interpretative research.


10	The procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion is
		A)	survey research.
		B)	equal sample.
		C)	controlled sample.
		D)	random sample.


11	The experimental factor that a researcher manipulates is a(n)
		A)	dependent variable.
		B)	hypothesis.
		C)	control.
		D)	independent variable.


12	The process of assigning participants to the conditions of an experiment such that all persons have the same chance of being in a(n)
		A)	ethics of experimentation.
		B)	random assignment.
		C)	mundane realism.
		D)	informed consent.


13	Mundane realism is
		A)	performing the experiment in the real world.
		B)	when the experiment is boring and repetitive.
		C)	the degree to which an experiment is similar to everyday conditions.
		D)	the experimenter's biases in the experiment.


14	An experiment would have experimental realism if it
		A)	absorbs and involves its participants.
		B)	is carried out in the field.
		C)	was similar to everyday situations.
		D)	tested an everyday hypothesis.


15	Experimenters standardize their instructions to subjects in order to
		A)	minimize demand characteristics.
		B)	insure accuracy in the results.
		C)	appear neutral to the group.
		D)	compare different groups.


16	Which is false according to the text. The American and British Psychological Associations
		A)	protect people from harm and significant discomfort.
		B)	tell potential participants enough about the experiment to enable their informed consent.
		C)	fully explain the experiment before preceding.
		D)	treat information about the individual participants confidentially.


17	Informed consent is
		A)	American Psychological Association guideline.
		B)	an ethical principle.
		C)	law in the United States and Britain.
		D)	a legal term used in experimental research.


18	An experimenter manipulates what variable?
		A)	control
		B)	independent
		C)	dependent
		D)	experimental

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