PSYCH 3325 MIDTERM EXAM (OSU) NEWEST 2026
ACTUAL EXAM TEST BANK| PSYCH 3325
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
MIDTERM REVIEW WITH COMPLETE 350 REAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS/ ALREADY GRADED A+ (MOST RECENT!!)
You are conducting research on how personal religious beliefs are
related to attitudes towards regulations aimed at slowing climate change.
According to the text, your next step is to _____.
a. state a testable hypothesis
b. identify the statistical tests
c. develop operational definitions
d. review the research literature - Correct Answer - a
Dr. Mangus studies how socioeconomic status is related to political
attitudes. She believes that it is not just an individual's current
socioeconomic status is important, but how that status has changed over
time. She therefore creates a series of questions that enable her to
categorize how an individual's status has changed over time. In doing so,
she has created a(n) _____.
a. within-subjects design
b. a control method
c. dependent variable
d. operational definition - Correct Answer - d
pg. 1
,Dr. Leifson is reading a research article on beliefs about aggression but
questions whether the instrument really measures what is claims to
measure. Dr. Leifson is questioning the instrument's _____.
a. test-retest reliability
b. significance
c. construct validity
d. assignment - Correct Answer - c
You want to learn more about what it is like to conduct research and
decide to participate in a research study. You arrive at a research facility
where you are given paperwork that gives you information about the
study's procedures. You recognize that you have been given a _____.
a. release document
b. demand characteristics form
c. consent form
d. survey document - Correct Answer - c
Dr. Aguilar wants to study how persuasive public service ads are
regarding getting COVID vaccinations. She believes that the
persuasiveness of the ads may vary depending on whether the person
viewing them knows someone who died from COVID. Obviously, she
cannot randomly assign people to groups and then arrange for the friends
or family members of one group to die from COVID. Her research is
therefore most likely to involve which design?
a. basic
b. experimental
c. quasi-experimental
d. meta-analytic - Correct Answer - c
pg. 2
,Dr. Watson just completed a study on how self-esteem is influenced by
social media is very confident that changes in the independent variable
(presentation of various memes) caused changes in the dependent
variable (self-esteem). Such a study is said to have _____.
a. external validity
b. construct validity
c. face validity
d. internal validity - Correct Answer - d
Dr. Volkov is reading a study on the effectiveness of graphic images on
persuading people to not text while driving. The research was conducted
with college students, but he is interested in whether the findings will
hold for 15-year-olds to 16-year-olds who are in the process of learning
to drive. Dr. Volkov is concerned about _____.
a. construct validity
b. face validity
c. internal validity
d. external validity - Correct Answer - d
Dr. Ferriter is interested in the attitudes of college students about student
loans. Dr. Ferriter wants to generalize her results to the entire current
student body and would be best served by a random sample of students
who _____.
a. have part-time jobs
b. receive student loans
c. apply for financial aid
d. are currently enrolled - Correct Answer - d
pg. 3
, One of the crucial issues in science is whether the results of an
experiment can be repeated by another experimenter or at a different
time. This issue is referred to as _____.
a. plagiarism
b. replication
c. research fraud
d. HARKing - Correct Answer - b
In the scientific method, the hypothesis is formulated BEFORE the data
are collected, but sometimes the hypothesis gets readjusted to better fit
the results, in a type of hindsight bias known as _____.
a. HARKing
b. plagiarism
c. research fraud
d. replication - Correct Answer - a
To understand the psyche, how people act, and why people act the way
they do, psychologists turn to _____.
a. learning and instinct
b. thoughts and feelings
c. genotypes and phenotypes
d. nature and culture - Correct Answer - d
Extremist groups are able to recruit new members despite the risks often
associated with those groups, ranging from social ostracism to
imprisonment to serious injury or death. Which type of factor accounts
for this phenomenon?
pg. 4
ACTUAL EXAM TEST BANK| PSYCH 3325
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
MIDTERM REVIEW WITH COMPLETE 350 REAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS/ ALREADY GRADED A+ (MOST RECENT!!)
You are conducting research on how personal religious beliefs are
related to attitudes towards regulations aimed at slowing climate change.
According to the text, your next step is to _____.
a. state a testable hypothesis
b. identify the statistical tests
c. develop operational definitions
d. review the research literature - Correct Answer - a
Dr. Mangus studies how socioeconomic status is related to political
attitudes. She believes that it is not just an individual's current
socioeconomic status is important, but how that status has changed over
time. She therefore creates a series of questions that enable her to
categorize how an individual's status has changed over time. In doing so,
she has created a(n) _____.
a. within-subjects design
b. a control method
c. dependent variable
d. operational definition - Correct Answer - d
pg. 1
,Dr. Leifson is reading a research article on beliefs about aggression but
questions whether the instrument really measures what is claims to
measure. Dr. Leifson is questioning the instrument's _____.
a. test-retest reliability
b. significance
c. construct validity
d. assignment - Correct Answer - c
You want to learn more about what it is like to conduct research and
decide to participate in a research study. You arrive at a research facility
where you are given paperwork that gives you information about the
study's procedures. You recognize that you have been given a _____.
a. release document
b. demand characteristics form
c. consent form
d. survey document - Correct Answer - c
Dr. Aguilar wants to study how persuasive public service ads are
regarding getting COVID vaccinations. She believes that the
persuasiveness of the ads may vary depending on whether the person
viewing them knows someone who died from COVID. Obviously, she
cannot randomly assign people to groups and then arrange for the friends
or family members of one group to die from COVID. Her research is
therefore most likely to involve which design?
a. basic
b. experimental
c. quasi-experimental
d. meta-analytic - Correct Answer - c
pg. 2
,Dr. Watson just completed a study on how self-esteem is influenced by
social media is very confident that changes in the independent variable
(presentation of various memes) caused changes in the dependent
variable (self-esteem). Such a study is said to have _____.
a. external validity
b. construct validity
c. face validity
d. internal validity - Correct Answer - d
Dr. Volkov is reading a study on the effectiveness of graphic images on
persuading people to not text while driving. The research was conducted
with college students, but he is interested in whether the findings will
hold for 15-year-olds to 16-year-olds who are in the process of learning
to drive. Dr. Volkov is concerned about _____.
a. construct validity
b. face validity
c. internal validity
d. external validity - Correct Answer - d
Dr. Ferriter is interested in the attitudes of college students about student
loans. Dr. Ferriter wants to generalize her results to the entire current
student body and would be best served by a random sample of students
who _____.
a. have part-time jobs
b. receive student loans
c. apply for financial aid
d. are currently enrolled - Correct Answer - d
pg. 3
, One of the crucial issues in science is whether the results of an
experiment can be repeated by another experimenter or at a different
time. This issue is referred to as _____.
a. plagiarism
b. replication
c. research fraud
d. HARKing - Correct Answer - b
In the scientific method, the hypothesis is formulated BEFORE the data
are collected, but sometimes the hypothesis gets readjusted to better fit
the results, in a type of hindsight bias known as _____.
a. HARKing
b. plagiarism
c. research fraud
d. replication - Correct Answer - a
To understand the psyche, how people act, and why people act the way
they do, psychologists turn to _____.
a. learning and instinct
b. thoughts and feelings
c. genotypes and phenotypes
d. nature and culture - Correct Answer - d
Extremist groups are able to recruit new members despite the risks often
associated with those groups, ranging from social ostracism to
imprisonment to serious injury or death. Which type of factor accounts
for this phenomenon?
pg. 4
