Deck 11: A: Reading

Question 1

The results of the first experiment conducted by Kenrick and Gutierres supported their hypothesis. However, one alternative explanation could not be completely ruled out: The subjects who were watching Charlie's Angels may have been more generally negative in their judgments toward women than control subjects, due to differences in personality, background, or some other unknown characteristic. To control for this in Study 2, Kenrick and Gutierres:

A) had all subjects complete a full battery of psychological tests designed to detect differences in personality.
B) assigned subjects to experimental conditions on a "matched sample" basis; that is, they made sure that the subjects in the experimental and the control groups were as much alike as possible.
C) used subjects who were watching a television show other than Charlie's Angels.
D) manipulated exposure to media beauty by using different attractiveness stimuli and randomly assigned subjects to experimental conditions.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The major dependent variable in the second experiment of the Charlie's Angels study by Kenrick and Gutierres was:

A) a seven point ugly-beautiful scale.
B) a seven point introversion-extraversion scale.
C) whether the male subject called the female experimenter later for the results.
D) a rank ordering of seven different models based upon their attractiveness.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Taken as a whole, the results of the studies conducted by Kenrick and Gutierres on the "contrast effect" support which of the following statements?

A) Initial judgments of a potential romantic partner's attractiveness may set into motion a "self-fulfilling prophecy."
B) Initial impressions of potential romantic partners will be adversely affected by recent exposure to media images of highly attractive individuals.
C) Male and female judges rated the photos very differently, indicating that only men are influenced by media images and cultural standards of physical beauty.
D) Individuals who encounter a "representative" sample of opposite-sex persons in their everyday life will not develop a bias against average looking potential partners.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

In Study 3 of their series of experiments on the "contrast effect," Kenrick and Gutierres modified their procedures in order to examine the effect of two additional variables on judgments of attractiveness. These two variables were:

A) providing subjects with occupational information on the woman in the photo and the inclusion of female subjects.
B) the inclusion of female subjects and the inclusion of photos of male targets.
C) exposure to peer evaluations (by having confederates comment on the photo) and the inclusion of female subjects.
D) exposure to peer evaluations (by having confederates comment on the photo) and the inclusion of photos of male targets.

Question 5

In their series of three studies on the "contrast effect" and ratings of physical attractiveness, Kenrick and Gutierres hypothesized that:

A) exposing judges to extremely unattractive stimuli before they rated a photo of a woman of "average" attractiveness would have no effect on how the judges rated the photo.
B) exposing judges to extremely attractive stimuli before they rated a photo of a woman of "average" attractiveness would result in the judges rating the photo as more attractive.
C) exposing judges to extremely attractive stimuli before they rated a photo of a woman of "average" attractiveness would result in the judges rating the photo as less attractive.
D) exposing judges to extremely unattractive stimuli before they rated a photo of a woman of "average" attractiveness would result in the judges rating the photo as less attractive.