Social Psychology 9th Edition by Saul Kassin Test bank

except

a.	suggest possible solutions to everyday social concerns.
b.	acknowledge their role in artificially producing the results of their studies.
c.	consider the cultural context in which their findings were obtained.
d.	design ethical experimental contexts.

 
 
ANS:  A                   REF:   A Brief History of Social Psychology              
OBJ:   4                    KEY:  Applied
 
 
 
 
   78.   Arguably, the most famous research in social psychology focused on the situational factors influencing obedience to authority and was conducted by

a.	F. Allport.
b.	G. Allport
c.	Festinger.
d.	None of these

 
 
ANS:  D                   REF:   A Brief History of Social Psychology              
OBJ:   4                    KEY:  Factual
 
   79.   During the 1960s and 1970s, social psychologists who favored laboratory experiments rebuffed critics by arguing that

a.	critics’ concerns regarding experimenter bias were exaggerated and misplaced.
b.	it did not matter that some studies were unethical because the benefits of running these experiments outweighed the costs.
c.	experimental studies were easier to conduct than non-experimental studies.
d.	the theoretical principles being tested in the lab were widely applicable across eras and cultures.

 
 
ANS:  D                   REF:   A Brief History of Social Psychology              
OBJ:   4                    KEY:  Conceptual
 
   80.   Social psychologists reacted to critiques of the field in the 1960s and 1970s by doing all of the following except

a.	adopting more rigorous and formalized ethical standards.
b.	paying more attention to cross-cultural differences in cognition and behavior.
c.	denouncing experiments as unacceptably artificial.
d.	developing more stringent procedures to avoid the effects of experimenter bias.