SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2600 EXAM 1 2027 UPDATE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
Question 1.
The scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are
influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people
Correct Answer: social psychology
Question 2.
The tendency to overestimate ple's behavior is due and to underestimate
Correct Answer: the extent to which peo- fundamental attribution to internal,
dispositional factors error the role of situational factors
Question 3.
The conviction that we perceive things "as they really are," underestimating how much we
are interpreting or "spinning" what we see
Correct Answer: naive realism
Question 4.
The effect that the other people have or behavior
Correct Answer: words, actions, or mere presence of social influence on our
thoughts, feelings, attitudes,
Question 5.
How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people
select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions
Correct Answer: social cognition
Question 6.
A school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which
an object appears in people's minds rather than the objective, physical attributes of the
object
Correct Answer: gestalt psychology
Question 7.
The attempt to explain netic factors that have the principles of natural
, Correct Answer: social behavior in terms of ge- evolutionary psychology evolved
over time according to selection
Question 8.
The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world
Correct Answer: construal
Question 9.
A school of psychology human behavior, one ing properties of the
Correct Answer: maintaining that to understand behaviorism need only consider
the reinforcenvironment
Question 10.
People's evaluations of their own self-worth—that is, the extent to which they view
themselves as good, competent, and decent
Correct Answer: self-esteem
Question 11.
A description of the purpose of a study, given to participants, that is different from its true
purpose and is used to maintain psychological realism
Correct Answer: cover story
Question 12.
A way of ensuring that a sample of people is representative of a population by giving
everyone in the population an equal chance of being selected for the sample
Correct Answer: random selection
Question 13.
A process ensuring chance of taking part ment; through random be relatively certain
pants' personalities evenly across conditions
Correct Answer: that all participants have an equal random assignment to in any
condition of an experi- condition assignment, researchers can that differences in
the particior backgrounds are distributed
Question 14.
The trade-off between internal and external validity in conducting research; it is very
difficult to do one experiment that is both high in internal validity and generalizable to
other situations and people
SOLUTIONS
Question 1.
The scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are
influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people
Correct Answer: social psychology
Question 2.
The tendency to overestimate ple's behavior is due and to underestimate
Correct Answer: the extent to which peo- fundamental attribution to internal,
dispositional factors error the role of situational factors
Question 3.
The conviction that we perceive things "as they really are," underestimating how much we
are interpreting or "spinning" what we see
Correct Answer: naive realism
Question 4.
The effect that the other people have or behavior
Correct Answer: words, actions, or mere presence of social influence on our
thoughts, feelings, attitudes,
Question 5.
How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people
select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions
Correct Answer: social cognition
Question 6.
A school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which
an object appears in people's minds rather than the objective, physical attributes of the
object
Correct Answer: gestalt psychology
Question 7.
The attempt to explain netic factors that have the principles of natural
, Correct Answer: social behavior in terms of ge- evolutionary psychology evolved
over time according to selection
Question 8.
The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world
Correct Answer: construal
Question 9.
A school of psychology human behavior, one ing properties of the
Correct Answer: maintaining that to understand behaviorism need only consider
the reinforcenvironment
Question 10.
People's evaluations of their own self-worth—that is, the extent to which they view
themselves as good, competent, and decent
Correct Answer: self-esteem
Question 11.
A description of the purpose of a study, given to participants, that is different from its true
purpose and is used to maintain psychological realism
Correct Answer: cover story
Question 12.
A way of ensuring that a sample of people is representative of a population by giving
everyone in the population an equal chance of being selected for the sample
Correct Answer: random selection
Question 13.
A process ensuring chance of taking part ment; through random be relatively certain
pants' personalities evenly across conditions
Correct Answer: that all participants have an equal random assignment to in any
condition of an experi- condition assignment, researchers can that differences in
the particior backgrounds are distributed
Question 14.
The trade-off between internal and external validity in conducting research; it is very
difficult to do one experiment that is both high in internal validity and generalizable to
other situations and people
