ANS: D REF: What Is Social Psychology? OBJ: 2
KEY: Applied
36. Which of the following research questions does not involve the interaction of social and cognitive psychology?
| a. | What situational factors influence whether someone interprets an event as an emergency and then makes a decision to offer help to a stranger? |
| b. | How does injury to a particular part of the brain influence the ability to form new memories? |
| c. | How does a threat to self-esteem influence people’s ability to pay attention to complex stimuli? |
| d. | How do stereotypes influence our memory of social interactions? |
ANS: B REF: What Is Social Psychology? OBJ: 2
KEY: Conceptual
37. Antoine investigates the extent to which depressed individuals have difficulty forming accurate memories of social interactions, particularly when those interactions are stressful. His research is best described as being at the intersection of
| a. | personality, cognitive, and clinical psychology. |
| b. | cognitive, social, and personality psychology. |
| c. | social, clinical, and cognitive psychology. |
| d. | clinical, personality, and social psychology. |
ANS: C REF: What Is Social Psychology? OBJ: 2
KEY: Applied
38. It could be argued that social psychology supplements common sense about human behavior in all of the following ways except that
| a. | social psychology tests commonsense assumptions using scientific methods. |
| b. | social psychology addresses many of the same issues about which people have intuitions. |
| c. | social psychological theories are as broad in scope as common sense. |
| d. | social psychological findings tend to support most intuitive beliefs about human behavior. |
ANS: D REF: What Is Social Psychology? OBJ: 2
KEY: Conceptual
39. Social psychological research is a necessary endeavor because our commonsense intuitions