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Social Psychology 11th Edition by Saul
Kassin, Steven Fein and Hazel Markus
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. What Is Social Psychology?
Chapter 2. Doing Social Psychology Research.
Chapter 3. The Social Self.
Chapter 4. Perceiving Persons.
Chapter 5. Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination.
Chapter 6. Attitudes.
Chapter 7. Conformity.
Chapter 8. Group Processes.
Chapter 9. Attraction and Close Relationships.
Chapter 10. Helping Others.
Chapter 11. Aggression.
Chapter 12. Law.
Chapter 13. Business.
Chapter 14. Health.
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Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are technologies that
enable social psychologists to
a. record research participants’ true attitudes without their awareness.
b. present visual stimuli to research participants for 100th of a second.
c. see images of the brain as people think, feel, and behave.
d. induce a particular mood state in people.
2. When Taka is teaching his social psychology class, he emphasizes that the field must encompass a range of
research techniques and cultural perspectives if it is to flourish. Taka’s emphasis reflects a(n)
a. contextualist orientation.
b. empirical approach.
c. “hot” approach to studying social behavior.
d. pluralistic orientation.
3. Dr. White is using a recently developed technology to conduct research on how the brain responds to visual
images that are culturally familiar or unfamiliar. Which of the following tools might he employ in his laboratory?
a. Event-related potential (ERP)
b. Electrooculography (EOG)
c. X-ray images
d. Phrenology mapping (PM)
4. The research of Jonathan Haidt (2012, 2017) addresses the question of whether we can understand the
different concepts of morality that separate
a. atheists and religious individuals.
b. homosexual and heterosexual persons.
c. older adults and younger adults.
d. liberals and conservatives.
5. Floyd Allport’s social psychology textbook, published in 1924, is credited with
a. establishing the field’s emphasis on experimentation and the scientific method.
b. imbuing the field with a cross-cultural orientation.
c. introducing the major theories of social psychology.
d. bridging the “hot” and “cold” perspectives on behavior and cognition.
6. During the 1960s and 1970s, social psychologists who favored laboratory experiments rebuffed critics about the
limitations of laboratory work by arguing that
a. the theories being tested were historically and culturally abundant.
b. the benefits of running these experiments outweighed the costs even if some studies were unethical.
c. experimental studies were easier to conduct than nonexperimental studies.
d. the theoretical principles being tested in the lab were widely applicable across eras and cultures.
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7. Which of the following statements describes a central characteristic of social psychology?
a. Social psychology uses historical events as its primary source of data.
b. Social psychology assumes that thoughts and behaviors are influenced by other people.
c. Social psychology focuses more on the behavior of groups than on that of individuals.
d. Social psychology emphasizes the solitary nature of human behavior.
8. Which of the following statements regarding Kurt Lewin is most accurate?
a. His interactionist perspective argues that human behavior is mostly a function of situational pressures.
b. His push for practical research was met with great resistance in the early days of social psychology.
c. He was the first to test social psychological hypotheses in a scientific manner.
d. He conducted research on what kinds of leaders elicit the best work from group members.
9. Social psychology differs from history and philosophy in its
a. attention to the scientific method.
b. concern with human behavior.
c. greater focus on cultural influences.
d. more narrowly defined areas of interest.
10. Which of the following researchers observed that cyclists raced faster in the presence of others than when
racing against the clock?
a. Max Ringelmann
b. Norman Triplett
c. Floyd Allport
d. John Haharwood
11. On certain occasions, social psychologists study
a. how nationality influences people’s social behavior.
b. people’s thoughts or feelings about common sense.
c. people’s thoughts or feelings about nonsocial things.
d. how intuition influences scientific findings.
12. The role of natural selection processes in the development of social behavior is a primary concern in
a. behavioral genetics.
b. social cognition.
c. personality psychology.
d. evolutionary psychology.
13. Which of the following fields is most concerned with how the brain influences social behavior?
a. Evolutionary psychology
b. Social cognition
c. Social neuroscience
d. Behavioral genetics
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Social Psychology 11th Edition by Saul
Kassin, Steven Fein and Hazel Markus
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. What Is Social Psychology?
Chapter 2. Doing Social Psychology Research.
Chapter 3. The Social Self.
Chapter 4. Perceiving Persons.
Chapter 5. Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination.
Chapter 6. Attitudes.
Chapter 7. Conformity.
Chapter 8. Group Processes.
Chapter 9. Attraction and Close Relationships.
Chapter 10. Helping Others.
Chapter 11. Aggression.
Chapter 12. Law.
Chapter 13. Business.
Chapter 14. Health.
,Name: Class: Date:
Chap_01_11e
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are technologies that
enable social psychologists to
a. record research participants’ true attitudes without their awareness.
b. present visual stimuli to research participants for 100th of a second.
c. see images of the brain as people think, feel, and behave.
d. induce a particular mood state in people.
2. When Taka is teaching his social psychology class, he emphasizes that the field must encompass a range of
research techniques and cultural perspectives if it is to flourish. Taka’s emphasis reflects a(n)
a. contextualist orientation.
b. empirical approach.
c. “hot” approach to studying social behavior.
d. pluralistic orientation.
3. Dr. White is using a recently developed technology to conduct research on how the brain responds to visual
images that are culturally familiar or unfamiliar. Which of the following tools might he employ in his laboratory?
a. Event-related potential (ERP)
b. Electrooculography (EOG)
c. X-ray images
d. Phrenology mapping (PM)
4. The research of Jonathan Haidt (2012, 2017) addresses the question of whether we can understand the
different concepts of morality that separate
a. atheists and religious individuals.
b. homosexual and heterosexual persons.
c. older adults and younger adults.
d. liberals and conservatives.
5. Floyd Allport’s social psychology textbook, published in 1924, is credited with
a. establishing the field’s emphasis on experimentation and the scientific method.
b. imbuing the field with a cross-cultural orientation.
c. introducing the major theories of social psychology.
d. bridging the “hot” and “cold” perspectives on behavior and cognition.
6. During the 1960s and 1970s, social psychologists who favored laboratory experiments rebuffed critics about the
limitations of laboratory work by arguing that
a. the theories being tested were historically and culturally abundant.
b. the benefits of running these experiments outweighed the costs even if some studies were unethical.
c. experimental studies were easier to conduct than nonexperimental studies.
d. the theoretical principles being tested in the lab were widely applicable across eras and cultures.
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, Name: Class: Date:
Chap_01_11e
7. Which of the following statements describes a central characteristic of social psychology?
a. Social psychology uses historical events as its primary source of data.
b. Social psychology assumes that thoughts and behaviors are influenced by other people.
c. Social psychology focuses more on the behavior of groups than on that of individuals.
d. Social psychology emphasizes the solitary nature of human behavior.
8. Which of the following statements regarding Kurt Lewin is most accurate?
a. His interactionist perspective argues that human behavior is mostly a function of situational pressures.
b. His push for practical research was met with great resistance in the early days of social psychology.
c. He was the first to test social psychological hypotheses in a scientific manner.
d. He conducted research on what kinds of leaders elicit the best work from group members.
9. Social psychology differs from history and philosophy in its
a. attention to the scientific method.
b. concern with human behavior.
c. greater focus on cultural influences.
d. more narrowly defined areas of interest.
10. Which of the following researchers observed that cyclists raced faster in the presence of others than when
racing against the clock?
a. Max Ringelmann
b. Norman Triplett
c. Floyd Allport
d. John Haharwood
11. On certain occasions, social psychologists study
a. how nationality influences people’s social behavior.
b. people’s thoughts or feelings about common sense.
c. people’s thoughts or feelings about nonsocial things.
d. how intuition influences scientific findings.
12. The role of natural selection processes in the development of social behavior is a primary concern in
a. behavioral genetics.
b. social cognition.
c. personality psychology.
d. evolutionary psychology.
13. Which of the following fields is most concerned with how the brain influences social behavior?
a. Evolutionary psychology
b. Social cognition
c. Social neuroscience
d. Behavioral genetics
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