ANS: B REF: What Is Social Psychology? OBJ: 2
KEY: Applied
24. Brad is a social psychologist. Marion is a sociologist. Which of the following research questions is most likely of interest to both of them?
| a. | How do societal and immediate factors influence racial differences in academic achievement? |
| b. | How does positive and negative feedback impact conceptions of the self? |
| c. | Do different socioeconomic groups express different political attitudes? |
| d. | Can an authority figure influence people to act in ways that they normally would not? |
ANS: A REF: What Is Social Psychology? OBJ: 2
KEY: Applied
25. Which of the following statements concerning social psychology and sociology is false?
| a. | Sociologists tend to study societal level variables, whereas social psychologists focus on more specific and immediate variables. |
| b. | Social psychology studies human behavior at the level of the individual, whereas sociology studies human behavior at the group level. |
| c. | Social psychologists and sociologists often study the same issues and publish in the same journals. |
| d. | Sociologists are more likely than social psychologists to rely on experimentation to study human behavior. |
ANS: D REF: What Is Social Psychology? OBJ: 2
KEY: Conceptual
26. When comparing social psychology to sociology, a major difference is the
| a. | target populations studied. |
| b. | number of variables explored. |
| c. | focus on the individual or the group. |
| d. | emphasis on how social context affects behavior. |
ANS: C REF: What Is Social Psychology? OBJ: 2
KEY: Conceptual
27. Marilyn is interested in whether schizophrenic individuals tend to interpret verbal feedback from others as negative even if it is positive. It might be said that Marilyn is doing research at the intersection of social psychology and
| a. | evolutionary psychology. |
| b. | sociology. |
| c. | personality psychology. |
| d. | clinical psychology. |