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PSY 365_Exam 1 Review
PSY 365_Exam 1 Review
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When do you start the scientific method?
When you have a question.
When the question works.
When you have to do research.
When you get the results.
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What kind of cognitive bias and associated behavior can prevent people from making smart investing decisions?
Investing in a diversified portfolio instead of trying to time the market.
Exiting the market because everyone else is; bandwagon effect.
Buying stocks when prices are low and selling them when they're high.
Staying calm when the market is experiencing a downturn.
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Social Psychology is the study of
human thought and behavior in presence of others
human thought and behavior
Human thought
human behavior
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What is cognitive priming?
When you witness a stimulus this may affect your response to a later thing
A prime number that looks nice
Reacting in a specific way, that is illogical
An image that may force you to think a certain way
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Ingroup bias is
the tendency to favor one's own group
a type of defense mechanism
relying on stereotypes
looking for information that confirms one's own beliefs
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What is Social Psychology?
The study of how our behaviors and thoughts change over time
The scientific study of how we think, influence, and relate.
The scientific psychological study of how we socialize.
The study of people who suffer from psychological disorders
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What is cognitive priming
When you witness a stimulus this may affect your response to a later thing
Reacting in a specific way, that is illogical
A prime number that looks nice
An image that may force you to think a certain way
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What is a random assignment?
A diverse sample
chance to chose people to be in experiment
random case study
chance to assign subjects to experimental or control groups
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Which of the following is an example of a cognitive miser?
read through a complicated question thoroughly
check for everything to bring before leaving home for classes
complete a lab worksheet and answer every single question on it
driving & listening to music not noticing the sirens of an ambulance
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A self fulfilling prophecy is
Deja vu
Something you dont believe that comes true
Something you believe that tends to come true
Something you believe which effects others success
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Who does the Social Identity Theory belong to?
Bandura et al
Tajfel et al
Cialdini
Loftus
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The order of the Scientific Method is....
Ask ?/Identify Problem, Hypothesis, Collect Data, Analyze, Conclusion
Ask a ?, Observe, Make Hypothesis, Do Experiment, Get Data, Conclusion
Ask a ?, Observe, Make Hypothesis, Gather Data, Do Experiment, Conclusion
Observe, ask ?, Make Hypothesis, Do Experiment, Conclusion, Gather Data
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Social Identity Theory says
We offer less sincere assistance to people unlike ourselves
We are more likely to assist children than adults
we are more likely to help than be helped
We prefer to help people similar to ourselves
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An outgroup is:
feelings that predispose use to react to objects and people
an unjustifiable attitude toward a group of people
people who share a common identity
those perceived as different from one's ingroup
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What is deception?
The treatment of the participants
When the participant is harmed
When the participant is wrongly informed on the aim
When animal are used in research
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Which of the following is a dispositional attribution?
Marissa believes that people in a group share the same ideas
Henry is cut off by a car and assumes the driver is rude
Teacher's thinks child is acting out in class b/c of divorce
Rudy assumes the role of a "guard" in a social experiment
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The importance of debriefing is to:
Inform members of the general public of what happened
Ensure all participants have the same story
Reduce the psychological impact and stress
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Self-serving bias is?
Peoples tendency to attribute positive events to themselves
Peoples tendency to attribute biased opinions to others
People tendency to attribute other events to themeselves
Peoples tendency to attribute biased opinions to themselves
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what is a situational attribution?
explanations due to factors external to the person involved
explanations due to internal factors to the person involved
attributions to others behaviour and yourself as well
our beliefs that allows us to have connections with others
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Social-cognitive biases are...
Peer evaluation
A child's mental state
Problem solving strategies
Predispositions to interpret social situations with others
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Correlational research is focused on
describing an event
proving causation
using math to prove an interaction
the relationship between variables
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What does the term "cognitive miser" refer to?
Being arrogant to simple decisions
thinking through everything
taking mental shortcuts for decisions
being scared to express their thoughts
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Social identity theory relies on:
compliance, identification, comparison
categorisation, identification, compliance
categorisation, identification, comparison
categorisation, identification, recognition
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Research ethics are
Morals instilled by religious institutions
Moral codes of behaviour to be followed in research
Guidelines to ensure participants are paid for their time
Moral principles to be followed when researching animals
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What is social cognition? [2 answers]
A manner of thinking that includes all social context
Mental representations of social situations
The study of how people come to believe what they do, how they do
Helps us perceive the world around us and ourselves
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Social Comparison Theory suggests
power is related to the amount of assets an individual has
individuals compare their own posessions with others'
belonging to a given social class is no longer relevant
wealth is related to the degree of influence over others
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What is a hindsight bias?
"I predicted that."
"Hindsight 20/20."
"I knew it all along."
"I'm smarter than everyone."
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The Negativity Bias is...
An automatic tendency to notice the bad things
Easy to avoid
Deliberately seeking out negative things
Something only some people have
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Dispositional Attributions is
attributing behavior to an external cause
one's failures to situational causes
attributing behavior to an internal cause
factor related to a situation
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Controlled processing refers to:
unconscious (implicit) or involuntary operations that guide our behaviors
Mental operations (compare, manipulate, and transform that information)
conscious (explicit) or voluntary efforts we make in dealing with problems
Convert into some kind of internal, symbolic code
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What is the scientific method?
Steps to success.
Series of steps that scientists use to solve & answer problems.
A formula.
A Secret.
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Cognitive load occurs;
short circuit brain function
slow brain syndrome
when high processing thought
we can't allocate more energy to thinking
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An example of confirmation bias is...
someone who deliberately answers a questionnaire falsely
your FB feed where the news article support your views
a person who is miserable but still tries to smile
refusing to be persuaded by views do not match your own
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Which isn't a feature of a cognitive miser?
We have more negavtive than positve schemas
People take cognitive shortcuts
Errors and biases due to intrinsic social thinking
We have limited capacity
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In research with deception with humans, researchers need to do what?
Prevent harm
All of the above
Let subjects withdraw whenever
Debrief subjects
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What are self-serving biases?
Impartially observing our own behavior
Not being able to impartially observe our own behavior
Only thinking the worst of ourselves
Being skeptical of our own behavior
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what are the goals of Psychology?
Delete, Explore, Print, Clean
Describe, Explore, Plan, control
Delete, explain, plan, control
Describe, Explain, predict, Influence
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Which of the following best describes the tasks of a research producer?
Use research and tries to apply it to their life, profession, or hobby
Conducts research and disseminates findings.
Publishing government reports
Forecasting the next twelve months
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Representativeness Heuristic
something available
problem solving method
previous belief
can create or sustain stereotypes
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Which of the following best describes the tasks of a research consumer?
Conducts research and disseminates findings.
Forecasting the next twelve months
Publishing government reports
Use research and tries to apply it to their life, profession, or hobby
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The fundamental attribution error involves:
Becoming more extreme in one’s individual opinions following group discussi
Losing self-restraint in group situations that foster anonymity
Underestimating situational influences on another’s behavior
Performing a complex task more poorly when in the presence of others
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dependent variable is what
memes are good memes are nice
change that occurs in response to the independent variable
why should i know?
the factor that you purposefully change
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What is a drawback of a correlational research?
Establishes a cause and effect.
No 3rd variable problem
Not useful for predicting outcomes.
Causation cannot be established
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Confirmation bias
tendency to approach a problem with a method that worked previously
seeking evidence to support an idea, rather than refute it
fast, automatic, unreasoned feelings and thoughts
the inability to look from another perspective, in order to maintain belief
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The Barnum effect refers to
our tendency to accept vague descriptions about ourselves as true
the influence of distraction on a test taker
When there's insufficient support for a theory
when an interviewer consistently answeres negatively to a response set
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Which of the following show an ingroup bias?
Laughing at an inside joke
Children believing their school is better than the others
Eating food you grew in your yard
Using a product from a different country
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Social psychologists explore
how we are affected by other people
the social lives of teens
the social lives of the elderly
abnormal social lives
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Availability heuristic theory argues that...
A person's diet can effect how they view crime
Fear is influenced by believe of risk and impact
More hours spent watching TV = view that crime is high
Fear is influenced by how readily we access crime images
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An independent variable is.............
The variable that stays the same throughout the experiment
The effect of the experiment
The variable that changes due to the manipulation
The variable that is manipulated in an experiment
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A control group
A graph that shows how variables are connected
A variable that changes in response to another variable
is not exposed to the independent variable changes
A way to show how variables are connected
