Social Psych

Most social psychological studies use participants from which continent?

• Asia

• Australia

• North America

• South America

What type of participants do most social psychologists use in their studies?

• Children

• College students

• Senior citizens

• White rats

What concept allows science to be self-correcting over time

• Correlation

• Generalizability

• Random assignment

• Replication

Compared to adults in the general population, college students ____

• Are more extraverted

• Are more introverted

• Have less crystallized self-concepts

• Have more crystallized self-concepts

(2) The Finding that kids who watch violent TV programs become more aggressive as adults than do kids who watch nonviolent TV programs can be explained in terms of _____ influences

• Biological

• Genetic

• Hormonal

• Societal

(2) Suppose that a new baby girl was born with no teeth. Unfortunately, because she had great difficulty eating, she died of starvation before she could have any children. Thus, the trait of having no teeth was not perserved for future generations. This process is called

• Natural Selection

• Nuture

• Praxis

• None of the Above

What term refers to a new gene or combination of genes?

• Mutation

• Natural Selection

• Reproduction

• Survival

Some species have bigger brains than other species. What do big-brained species primarily use their brains for

• Eating better foods

• Roaming over larger territories

• Having larger and more complex social structures

• All of the Above

Humans are best described as ___

• cultural animals

• social animals

• both cultural and social animals

• neither cultural or social animals

(2) In social psych the "nature versus nuture" debate ___

• is alive and well

• has largely died out; most social psychologists maintain that human behavior is shaped mostly by social forces

• has largely died out; most social psychologists maintain that human behavior is shaped mostly by genetic forces

• has been reframed; the debate new concerns how nature and nurture interact with one another and influence one another