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</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which psychological event is also considered a biological event?

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

    What are the principles of contemporary social psychology emphasizing?

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

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

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

    What does reliability yield in social psychology?

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

    What is the key focus of personality psychology?

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

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

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

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