ANS: C REF: A Brief History of Social Psychology
OBJ: 4 KEY: Factual
81. Social psychology in the period from the middle 1970s through the 1990s can best be described as a time of
| a. | confidence and crisis. |
| b. | social activism. |
| c. | pluralism. |
| d. | interactionism. |
ANS: C REF: A Brief History of Social Psychology
OBJ: 4 KEY: Factual
82. When Taka is teaching his social psychology class, he emphasizes that the field must encompass a range of research techniques and cultural perspectives if it is to flourish. Taka’s emphasis reflects a(n)
| a. | contextualist orientation. |
| b. | empirical approach. |
| c. | “hot” approach to studying social behavior. |
| d. | pluralistic orientation. |
ANS: D REF: A Brief History of Social Psychology
OBJ: 4 KEY: Applied
83. A pluralistic approach to social psychology
| a. | encourages research outside of controlled settings. |
| b. | emphasizes the motivational more than the cognitive underpinnings of behavior. |
| c. | has been supplanted by other approaches in the past 30 years. |
| d. | limits the kinds of topics that social psychologists can study. |
ANS: A REF: A Brief History of Social Psychology
OBJ: 4 KEY: Conceptual
84. Pluralism in social psychology can be seen in all of the following areas except the
| a. | procedures used to secure government funding. |
| b. | integration of “hot” and “cold” perspectives. |
| c. | methods social psychologists use to study behavior. |
| d. | inclusion of various cultural perspectives. |