SOP 3004 Exam 1 QUESTIONS N
ANSWERS GRADED A+
Study- Competitive vs Cooperative? (CH.1) - correct answer ✔✔- RA categorized people as
competitive or cooperative
- people are given choice to compete or cooperate
- name of the game was changed "Community Game" vs "Wall street game"
- personality didn't matter
-SITUATION MATTERS
What is a correlation? - correct answer ✔✔A relationship, association, link, or predictor
between two variables
What does Covary mean? - correct answer ✔✔
What type of covariance is depicted? - correct answer ✔✔negative relationship; one variable
increases, the other decreases
What type of relationship is depicted? - correct answer ✔✔There is no relationship.
What is Internal validity? - correct answer ✔✔How well you are testing what you say you are
testing?
What is external validity? - correct answer ✔✔how can your study be generalized to represent
people in real life?
, How do schemas effect what information we remember?:
Schema Activation Study - Cohen 1981 - correct answer ✔✔- participants shown woman having
dinner with her husband
- 1/2 told woman was a waitress
- 1/2 told woman was a librarian
- participants were biased towards recalling schema consistent info
What is Self Fulfilling Prophecy? - correct answer ✔✔-when people have an expectation about
what another person is like
> which influences how they act toward that person
> which causes that person to behave consistently with people's original expectations
> making the expectations come true
Self fulfilling prophecy study - Tanke - correct answer ✔✔- Men talking to female partner
- Men shown a fake picture of "her"
- 1/2 saw a pretested attractive face, 1/2 saw a pretested unattractive face
- men were more sociable to female partners they thought were prettier
- women talking to men who thought they were pretty thought the men were more sociably
- mens expectations influenced their behavior, which elicited schema-consistent responses
Halo effect - correct answer ✔✔thinking positively of something/ someone who is attractive
Priming - correct answer ✔✔process by which some schemas are brought to the forefront of
the mind
Priming Study - Higgins 1977 - correct answer ✔✔- Participants primed with semantic concepts
before reading something
ANSWERS GRADED A+
Study- Competitive vs Cooperative? (CH.1) - correct answer ✔✔- RA categorized people as
competitive or cooperative
- people are given choice to compete or cooperate
- name of the game was changed "Community Game" vs "Wall street game"
- personality didn't matter
-SITUATION MATTERS
What is a correlation? - correct answer ✔✔A relationship, association, link, or predictor
between two variables
What does Covary mean? - correct answer ✔✔
What type of covariance is depicted? - correct answer ✔✔negative relationship; one variable
increases, the other decreases
What type of relationship is depicted? - correct answer ✔✔There is no relationship.
What is Internal validity? - correct answer ✔✔How well you are testing what you say you are
testing?
What is external validity? - correct answer ✔✔how can your study be generalized to represent
people in real life?
, How do schemas effect what information we remember?:
Schema Activation Study - Cohen 1981 - correct answer ✔✔- participants shown woman having
dinner with her husband
- 1/2 told woman was a waitress
- 1/2 told woman was a librarian
- participants were biased towards recalling schema consistent info
What is Self Fulfilling Prophecy? - correct answer ✔✔-when people have an expectation about
what another person is like
> which influences how they act toward that person
> which causes that person to behave consistently with people's original expectations
> making the expectations come true
Self fulfilling prophecy study - Tanke - correct answer ✔✔- Men talking to female partner
- Men shown a fake picture of "her"
- 1/2 saw a pretested attractive face, 1/2 saw a pretested unattractive face
- men were more sociable to female partners they thought were prettier
- women talking to men who thought they were pretty thought the men were more sociably
- mens expectations influenced their behavior, which elicited schema-consistent responses
Halo effect - correct answer ✔✔thinking positively of something/ someone who is attractive
Priming - correct answer ✔✔process by which some schemas are brought to the forefront of
the mind
Priming Study - Higgins 1977 - correct answer ✔✔- Participants primed with semantic concepts
before reading something
