b. folk wisdom is usually wrong.
c. folk wisdom oversimplifies complex situations.
d. common sense is an individual difference.
Answer: A
Difficulty: 2
Page(s) in Text: 4
Topic: What Is Social Psychology?
Skill: Application
20. What is the role of folk wisdom in social psychology?
a. It is unrelated.
b. It provides many ideas or hypotheses for scientific investigation.
c. It has been completely disproven by scientific research.
d. It tends to be more accurate and useful than social psychological research.
Answer: B
Difficulty: 2
Page(s) in Text: 4-5
Topic: What Is Social Psychology?
Skill: Conceptual
21. Why is a scientific approach preferable to reliance on folk wisdom and common sense?
a. Common sense approaches focus on the situation and not on personality.
b. Nothing useful can be learned from journalists, philosophers, or social critics.
c. Science has tested and debunked most folk wisdom.
d. Folk wisdom and common sense are filled with contradictions.
Answer: D
Difficulty: 2
Page(s) in Text: 4-5
Topic: What Is Social Psychology?
Skill: Conceptual
22. Assil has an educated guess about the social behavior of teenagers when their high school team wins the football game. That means that she has a(n) ______ about how the teens behave.
a. construal
b. hypothesis
c. Gestalt
d. explicit value
Answer: B
Difficulty: 2
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Topic: What Is Social Psychology?
Skill: APPLICATION
23. Amber and Jules are friends but differ in how neat they keep their rooms. According to personality psychologists, the distinction between the friends can be referred to as a(n)
a. hypothesis.
b. social influence.