SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 10TH EDITION BY
KASSIN UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ social cognition.
Answer: the study of how we perceive, remember, and interpret
information about ourselves and others
◉ Behavioral genetics.
Answer: a subfield of psychology that examines the role of genes on
behavior
◉ evolutionary psychology.
Answer: Subfield of psychology that uses the principles of evolution
to understand human behavior
◉ cross-cultural research.
Answer: research designed to compare and contrast people of
different cultures
◉ multicultural research.
,Answer: research designed to examine racial and ethnic groups
within cultures
◉ Culture.
Answer: A system of enduring meanings, beliefs, values,
assumptions, institutions, and practices shared by a large group of
people and transmitted from one generation to the next
◉ interactionist perspective.
Answer: an emphasis on how both an individual's personality and
environmental characteristics influence behavior
◉ open science.
Answer: a movement to make research materials, methods,
hypotheses, and data more transparent, accessible, and easily
shared with researchers from other labs
◉ social cognition.
Answer: the study of how people perceive, remember, and interpret
information about themselves and others
◉ social neuroscience.
Answer: the study of the relationship between neural and social
processes
, ◉ applied research.
Answer: research whose goal is to make applications to the world
and contribute to the solution of social problems
◉ basic research.
Answer: research whose goal is to increase the understanding of
human behavior, often by testing hypotheses based on a theory
◉ bogus pipeline technique.
Answer: a procedure in which research participants are (falsely) led
to believe that their responses will be verified by an infallible lie
detector
◉ Confederates.
Answer: accomplice of an experimenter who, in dealing with the real
participants in an experiment, acts as if he or she is also a
participant
◉ Confound.
Answer: a factor other than the independent variable that varies
between the conditions of an experiment, thereby calling into
question what caused any effects on the dependent variable
KASSIN UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ social cognition.
Answer: the study of how we perceive, remember, and interpret
information about ourselves and others
◉ Behavioral genetics.
Answer: a subfield of psychology that examines the role of genes on
behavior
◉ evolutionary psychology.
Answer: Subfield of psychology that uses the principles of evolution
to understand human behavior
◉ cross-cultural research.
Answer: research designed to compare and contrast people of
different cultures
◉ multicultural research.
,Answer: research designed to examine racial and ethnic groups
within cultures
◉ Culture.
Answer: A system of enduring meanings, beliefs, values,
assumptions, institutions, and practices shared by a large group of
people and transmitted from one generation to the next
◉ interactionist perspective.
Answer: an emphasis on how both an individual's personality and
environmental characteristics influence behavior
◉ open science.
Answer: a movement to make research materials, methods,
hypotheses, and data more transparent, accessible, and easily
shared with researchers from other labs
◉ social cognition.
Answer: the study of how people perceive, remember, and interpret
information about themselves and others
◉ social neuroscience.
Answer: the study of the relationship between neural and social
processes
, ◉ applied research.
Answer: research whose goal is to make applications to the world
and contribute to the solution of social problems
◉ basic research.
Answer: research whose goal is to increase the understanding of
human behavior, often by testing hypotheses based on a theory
◉ bogus pipeline technique.
Answer: a procedure in which research participants are (falsely) led
to believe that their responses will be verified by an infallible lie
detector
◉ Confederates.
Answer: accomplice of an experimenter who, in dealing with the real
participants in an experiment, acts as if he or she is also a
participant
◉ Confound.
Answer: a factor other than the independent variable that varies
between the conditions of an experiment, thereby calling into
question what caused any effects on the dependent variable
