Social Psychology Quiz: Ross and Samuel’s Influence
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Which branch of psychology investigates the potential role of genetic factors in human behavior?

  • Personality psychology
  • Social psychology
  • Evolutionary psychology (correct)
  • Social neuroscience

What is the focus of social psychology in terms of predicting human behavior?

  • Studying individual differences
  • Explaining past behavior
  • Understanding group dynamics
  • Predicting future behavior (correct)

In the Wall Street Game V.Community Game study, what were the two games specifically called?

  • Neutral Game, Biased Game
  • Selfish Game, Selfless Game
  • Wall Street Game, Community Game (correct)
  • Personal Game, Impersonal Game

What does social neuroscience aim to explore?

<p>The neural and physiological bases of social and emotional behavior (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which psychological event is also considered a biological event?

<p>Social influence (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the principles of contemporary social psychology emphasizing?

<p>The power of the situation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do psychological processes shared by most people make them susceptible to?

<p>Social influence (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does reliability yield in social psychology?

<p>Reliable information (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the key focus of personality psychology?

<p>Private, internal functioning and individual differences (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the core components of the scientific method in social psychology?

<p>Systematic observation, measurement, experimentation, and formulation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of validity refers to the extent to which a measure assesses all aspects of the construct it is supposed to measure?

<p>Content validity (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which method of data collection involves examining accumulated documents or archives of a culture?

<p>Archival analysis (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In which type of observation method does the observer interact with the people being observed?

<p>Naturalistic observation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the technique where a researcher cues the behaviors of interest and observes participants' responses in a laboratory?

<p>Structured observation (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of research involves a representative sample of people being asked questions about their thoughts, feelings, and behavior?

<p>Survey methods (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What tendency refers to the exaggeration of one’s ability to have foreseen an outcome after learning about it?

<p>Hindsight bias (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do we call an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events?

<p><strong>Theory</strong> (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In experimental research, what gives confidence to the researcher that any later difference would be caused by the treatment manipulation?

<p><strong>Random assignment</strong> (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which principle states that values influence research topics, analysis of data, forming concepts, and labeling?

<p><strong>Values principle</strong> (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of social psychology principle emphasizes that our susceptibility to intuitions can be costly?

<p>Implicit ways principle (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers
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