ANS: D REF: Social Psychology in a New Century: What Is Trending Today?
OBJ: 6 KEY: Factual
123. Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding the relationship between the Internet and contemporary social psychology research?
| a. | The Internet facilitates collaboration among researchers, but is also, in and of itself, a provocative topic for empirical inquiry. |
| b. | The Internet has increased the number of different variables that can be studied at one time, but at the same time has led to an unfortunate increase in the cost of running psychological studies. |
| c. | The Internet allows researchers to combat the artificiality of laboratory experiments, and increases the demographic diversity of the participant sample used in most studies. |
| d. | The Internet is still years away from having a significant impact on the nature and topics of research in social psychology. |
ANS: A REF: Social Psychology in a New Century: What Is Trending Today?
OBJ: 6 KEY: Conceptual
124. Which of the following is not a new technology mentioned in your text as being used in social psychological research?
| a. | ERP |
| b. | fMRI |
| c. | TMS |
| d. | EEG |
ANS: D REF: Social Psychology in a New Century: What Is Trending Today?
OBJ: 6 MSC: Factual
125. The ability to communicate and collaborate with other social psychologists through the Internet has produced
| a. | an increase in the number of social psychologists learning new languages. |
| b. | the internationalization of social psychology. |
| c. | controversy within the field about what type of training is appropriate. |
| d. | research on the integration of biological and social processes. |
ANS: B REF: Social Psychology in a New Century: What Is Trending Today?
OBJ: 6 KEY: Factual
ESSAY
1. How does social psychology differ from each of the following: (a) sociology, (b) the other subdisciplines of psychology, and (c) the approach taken by a journalist who examines the social behaviors of various individuals?