Deck 1: History, Methods and Approaches

Question 1

Who helped lay the foundations for modern social psychology?

A) Gordon Allport
B) Henri Tajfel
C) Richard Crisp
D) Auguste Comte

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The first social psychology experiment is thought to have been conducted by ______.

A) Henri Tajfel
B) Gustav LeBon
C) Norman Triplett
D) Stanley Milgram

Answer 2

C

Question 3

When were the first textbooks of social psychology published?

A) 1700s
B) 1800s
C) 1900s
D) 2000s

Answer 3

B

Question 4

LaPierre's 1934 attitudes study showed that ______.

A) attitudes do not always predict emotions
B) attitudes always predict behaviour
C) attitude always predicts emotions
D) attitudes do not always predict behaviour

Question 5

Allport's The Nature of Prejudice proposed ______.

A) the Contact Hypothesis
B) the Minimal Group Paradigm
C) the Theory of Planned Behaviour
D) the Common Ingroup Identity Model

Question 6

Which of the following are types of data examined by social psychologists?

A) quantitative data
B) qualitative data
C) archival
D) all of these

Question 7

Which of the following are research methodologies used by social psychologists?

A) response time methods
B) interviews
C) neuroscience
D) all of these

Question 8

Archival data involves testing hypothesis by ______.

A) looking at existing data
B) reading newspapers
C) conducting interviews
D) conducting surveys

Question 9

A correlational study involves ______.

A) manipulating a variable and seeing if it affects a dependent measure
B) reading newspapers
C) measuring two variables and seeing if they are related
D) conducting interviews

Question 10

Which one of the following qualifies as an experiment?

A) an interview
B) archival research
C) a study in which multiple attitude measures are taken
D) a study in which two groups receive different instructions

Question 11

______ are conscious, deliberative and controllable, and are usually captured by traditional measures in which participants report how positive or negative their attitudes, feelings or stereotypes are towards members of another group.

A) Explicit attitudes
B) Implicit attitudes
C) Dependent attitudes
D) Surveys

Question 12

______ are attitudes that are unintentionally activated by the mere presence (actual or symbolic) of an attitude object.

A) Explicit attitudes
B) Implicit attitudes
C) Dependent attitudes
D) Surveys

Question 13

Implicit attitudes are thought to develop through ______.

A) reasoned action
B) spontaneous action
C) repeated pairings
D) spontaneous pairings

Question 14

A technique used to measure implicit attitudes is ______.

A) the MGP
B) the ITA
C) the MTP
D) the IAT

Question 15

An experiment must include ______.

A) a table and chairs
B) a computer
C) a questionnaire
D) none of these

Question 16

Experiments are high on internal validity because ______.

A) the conditions can be replicated by other experimenters
B) they involve an independent as well as dependent variable
C) they involve numeric observations that can be statistically analysed
D) they are carried out inside laboratories

Question 17

Experiments lack ______ .

A) internal validity
B) confounding variables
C) numerical accuracy
D) external validity

Question 18

Demand characteristics can lead to ______.

A) the participant guessing the experiment's purpose
B) an experiment being confounded by experimenter expectations
C) the experiment being too demanding
D) none of these

Question 19

______ is a problem for field studies.

A) Demand characteristics
B) Low internal validity
C) Low external validity
D) Experimenter effects

Question 20

Forms of qualitative data collection include ______.

A) structured interviews
B) semi-structured interviews
C) focus groups
D) all of these

Question 21

______ is an approach that entails collecting data that aims to develop theory about systems of meaning in different cultures.

A) Ethnographic research
B) Semi-structured interviews
C) Grounded theory
D) Critical social psychology

Question 22

An example of critical social psychology is ______.

A) social identity theory
B) ethnographic theory
C) discursive psychology
D) sociological psychology

Question 23

______ allow you maximum control over other variables.

A) Field experiments
B) Laboratory experiments
C) Correlational research
D) Case studies

Question 24

______ maximise internal validity.

A) Field experiments
B) Laboratory experiments
C) Correlational research
D) Case studies

Question 25

______ involve examining the effect of a manipulated variable on a dependent variable.

A) Field experiments
B) Laboratory experiments
C) Correlational studies
D) Case studies

Question 26

______ enables one to reduce the possible influence of demand characteristics.

A) Double-blind procedures
B) Deception
C) the minimal group paradigm
D) all of these

Question 27

If deception is used, the experimenter must make sure that ______.

A) participants are fully debriefed at the end of the study
B) the deception causes no physical nor psychological harm
C) informed consent has been obtained prior to the commencement of the study
D) all of these

Question 28

______ involve measuring the relationship between one variable and another

A) Field experiments
B) Laboratory experiments
C) Correlational studies
D) Case studies

Question 29

Which of the following typically don't employ quantitative methods?

A) field experiments
B) laboratory experiments
C) correlational research
D) case studies

Question 30

Which of the following employ qualitative methods?

A) field experiments
B) laboratory experiments
C) discourse analysis
D) all of these