ANS: D REF: What Is Social Psychology? OBJ: 1
KEY: Factual
5. Social psychology differs from history and philosophy in its
| a. | attention to the scientific method. |
| b. | concern with human behavior. |
| c. | greater focus on cultural influences. |
| d. | more narrow and refined bandwidth of interest. |
ANS: A REF: What Is Social Psychology? OBJ: 1
KEY: Factual
6. Which of the following is not considered an important part of the scientific method?
| a. | Systematic observation |
| b. | Variable definition |
| c. | Intuition |
| d. | Measurement |
ANS: C REF: What Is Social Psychology? OBJ: 1
KEY: Conceptual
7. Anita wants to spend her career studying the factors that predict whether the members of a couple are satisfied with their marriage. If she chooses to do so as a social psychologist, it is likely that her pursuit will
| a. | focus more on people’s thoughts than on their actual behavior. |
| b. | emphasize the importance of different personality types, such as “fun-loving” and “open to new experiences.” |
| c. | examine couples rather than individuals as the unit of analysis. |
| d. | include systematic observation and measurement of couples. |
ANS: D REF: What Is Social Psychology? OBJ: 1
KEY: Applied
8. Mariano is interested in how the diversity of a group affects its performance. If Mariano is a social psychologist, it is unlikely that he will
| a. | conduct experiments that compare diverse and non-diverse groups. |
| b. | focus more on the details of recent Supreme Court rulings regarding affirmative action than examining the actual behavior of groups. |
| c. | be interested in the thoughts as well as behaviors of people within those groups. |
| d. | expect the perceived influence of diversity among the members of the groups to be as influential as the actual changes in performance caused by diverse demographics. |