Essential Social Psychology 4th Edition Crisp

Essential Social Psychology 4th Edition Crisp Test Bank

Chapter 1: History, methods and approaches

• Who helped lay the foundations for modern social psychology?
• Gordon Allport
• Henri Tajfel
• Richard Crisp
• Auguste Comte

Ans: D

• The first social psychology experiment is thought to have been conducted by

______.

• Henri Tajfel
• Gustav LeBon
• Norman Triplett
• Stanley Milgram

Ans: C

• When were the first textbooks of social psychology published?
• 1700s
• 1800s
• 1900s
• 2000s

Ans: B

• LaPierre’s 1934 attitudes study showed that ______.
• attitudes do not always predict emotions
• attitudes always predict behaviour
• attitude always predicts emotions 1 / 4

• attitudes do not always predict behaviour

Ans: D

• Allport’s The Nature of Prejudice proposed ______.
• the Contact Hypothesis
• the Minimal Group Paradigm
• the Theory of Planned Behaviour
• the Common Ingroup Identity Model

Ans: A

• Which of the following are types of data examined by social psychologists?
• quantitative data
• qualitative data
• archival
• all of these

Ans: D

• Which of the following are research methodologies used by social psychologists?
• response time methods
• interviews
• neuroscience
• all of these

Ans: D

• Archival data involves testing hypothesis by ______.
• looking at existing data
• reading newspapers
• conducting interviews
• conducting surveys

Ans: A

• A correlational study involves ______. 2 / 4

• manipulating a variable and seeing if it affects a dependent measure
• reading newspapers
• measuring two variables and seeing if they are related
• conducting interviews

Ans: C

• Which one of the following qualifies as an experiment?
• an interview
• archival research
• a study in which multiple attitude measures are taken
• a study in which two groups receive different instructions

Ans: D

An experiment involves manipulating one variable, which we call the independent variable, and then seeing whether this has an effect on a second variable, which we refer to as the dependent variable.

• ______ are conscious, deliberative and controllable, and are usually captured by

traditional measures in which participants report how positive or negative their attitudes, feelings or stereotypes are towards members of another group.

• Explicit attitudes
• Implicit attitudes
• Dependent attitudes
• Surveys

Ans: A

• ______ are attitudes that are unintentionally activated by the mere presence

(actual or symbolic) of an attitude object.

• Explicit attitudes
• Implicit attitudes
• Dependent attitudes
• Surveys

Ans: B 3 / 4

• Implicit attitudes are thought to develop through ______.
• reasoned action
• spontaneous action
• repeated pairings
• spontaneous pairings

Ans: C

• A technique used to measure implicit attitudes is ______.
• the MGP
• the ITA
• the MTP
• the IAT

Ans: D

• An experiment must include ______.
• a table and chairs
• a computer
• a questionnaire
• none of these

Ans: D

• Experiments are high on internal validity because ______.
• the conditions can be replicated by other experimenters
• they involve an independent as well as dependent variable
• they involve numeric observations that can be statistically analysed
• they are carried out inside laboratories

Ans: D

• Experiments lack ______ .
• internal validity
• confounding variables
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