introduction to social psychology

Rema knows she needs to go take the sunday class started by VES College . This means not meeting her friend on sundays , the only day she get to meet him .s. She wonders, will “absence make the heart go stronger” be true, or is “out of sight, out of mind” more applicable? This is an example of ________.

• feminine thinking

•    the unscientific nature of conventional wisdom

• pure jealousy and apprehensions

• sceintific problem solving

Scientific nature of Social Psychology is explained by its ___________

• values

• methods

• values and methods

• none of them

Your research on  gambling and drinking alcohol are found to be correlated at +.65. We can conclude that ________.

• gambling causes drinking

• drinking causes gambling

• people who  go to meet friends tend to drink less than others

• .gambling is probably related to drinking

•I design an experiment to find if caffeine increases ability to memorize nonsense Syllables . I give one group 1 cup of  coffee and the other group 2 cups of coffee . Here caffeine is the ______________variable

• •Independent

• •dependent

• Control

• Universal

Which statement is not true about survey method

• It is  economical

• Its time consuming

• It is a method used by Psychologist

• large number of responses gathered at the same time

In order to determine whether people have a strong or weak preference for the color of their refrigerator they purchase , a company wants to collect information from many of its past customers. If the number of past customers is very large, the company may want to consider using ________ method

• research

• naturalistic observation

• Survey

• experimentation

When research results are not consistent with a theory, the researcher’s next step usually involves ________.

• replacing the theory with a different one

• modifying the theory and collecting additional data

• modifying the results to be consistent with the theory

• all are correct

The evolutionary perspective on social behavior suggests that ________.

• we inherit tendencies or predispositions to behave in certain ways

• our behavior is not biologically determined and cannot be consciously known

• we inherit all social behaviors

• all social behaviours are caused by evolution

Which of the following study questions could absolutely NOT be explored using experimentation due to ethical reasons?

• Does the time of day influence our appetite for chocolate

• How effective are political ads in terms of influencing voters?

• How do individuals cope when their spouse dies?

• all of them

In  _______________method one variable is changed systematically & effects of these changes on  another variable( one /more) is carefully measured

• research

• survey

• observation

• Experimental