PSY 340 - Exam 1 Questions and Answers Latest Update 2025 Graded A+
which of the following questions is a behaviorist most likely to ask? - Answers what are the external
rewards in this situation
according to the authors of your text, when Darwin developed evolutionary theory, it was aimed at
explaining how - Answers animals adapt to their social environment
a researcher interested in testing a ____________ hypothesis would be most likely to conduct an
experiment - Answers causal
Professor Yarnofsky wonders whether recent acts of airline terrorism have made the public more fearful
of airline flight. He secures records of the amount of flight insurance that people have purchased via
machines at the airport, and compares the records of insurance purchases before the last hijacking to
purchases after the last hijacking. Professor Yarnofsky has employed a(n) ________ research method. -
Answers archival
a self-fulfilling prophecy is like a(n) _________ you want to come true. - Answers hypothesis
Reasoning based on the ease with which we can bring something to mind involves the use of the
________________ heuristic. - Answers availability
After seeing the movie Fargo, Craig firmly believes that Minnesotans and North Dakotans are the
goofiest people in the United States. You believe that Minnesotans and North Dakotans are no goofier
than people any place else, and you would like to get Craig to change his judgment. To do this, you
might - Answers ask him to consider the opposite point of view
At the grocery store, mothers often keep children busy by letting them "drive" the cart. Little do the
children realize that the steering wheel they are playing with does not control anything. This example
demonstrates our sometimes misplaced sense of control over - Answers free will and our own behavior
research on people's use of the covariation model in making attributions suggests that people are less
likely to use _________ information than Kelley's model predicts - Answers consensus
Because the knowledge that we are mortal and that bad things can happen to us is very difficult to
accept, we often make ___________ attributions - Answers defensive
what is social psychology - Answers -scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to
one another
-the goal is to uncover/discover universal laws of human behavior, which is why cross-culture research is
often essential
social psychology's relatives - Answers sociology
anthropology
, economics
neuroscience/ biology
clinical psych
cognitive psych
developmental psych
personaliy psych
how social psych differs from its relative sciences - Answers -different levels of analysis
-main focus of social psych is "why" answers
-level of analysis= the main focus of research
-the main level of analysis for social psych is to seek and identify universal properties of human nature
that make everyone susceptible to social influence regardless of social class or culture
T/F people in a sad mood are less likely to help others than are people in a neutral mood - Answers false
T/F if 10 people are all telling you the same thing you are more likely to conform publicly to their opinion
than if just 5 people are telling you the same thing - Answers false
T/F the greater the cohesiveness or solidarity of a group, the better its decisions will be - Answers false
T/F physically attractive people are usually seen as less intelligent than physically unattractive people -
Answers false
T/F promising and delivering rewards to people for doing an enjoyable activity will, in the long run, make
hem enjoy the activity less - Answers false
Hindsight bias - Answers the tendency to exaggerate one's ability to have foreseen an outcome after
learning about it
proverbial and anecdotal knowledge - Answers can support almost any claim
Social psych uses _____________________________- to answer questions about human nature -
Answers the scientific method
through cafeully designed experiments, social psych are able to _______________________ - Answers
distinguish between 'common sense' and the truth
theory - Answers integrated principles that explain and predict observed events
hypothesis - Answers testable predictions that allow theories to be tested
which of the following questions is a behaviorist most likely to ask? - Answers what are the external
rewards in this situation
according to the authors of your text, when Darwin developed evolutionary theory, it was aimed at
explaining how - Answers animals adapt to their social environment
a researcher interested in testing a ____________ hypothesis would be most likely to conduct an
experiment - Answers causal
Professor Yarnofsky wonders whether recent acts of airline terrorism have made the public more fearful
of airline flight. He secures records of the amount of flight insurance that people have purchased via
machines at the airport, and compares the records of insurance purchases before the last hijacking to
purchases after the last hijacking. Professor Yarnofsky has employed a(n) ________ research method. -
Answers archival
a self-fulfilling prophecy is like a(n) _________ you want to come true. - Answers hypothesis
Reasoning based on the ease with which we can bring something to mind involves the use of the
________________ heuristic. - Answers availability
After seeing the movie Fargo, Craig firmly believes that Minnesotans and North Dakotans are the
goofiest people in the United States. You believe that Minnesotans and North Dakotans are no goofier
than people any place else, and you would like to get Craig to change his judgment. To do this, you
might - Answers ask him to consider the opposite point of view
At the grocery store, mothers often keep children busy by letting them "drive" the cart. Little do the
children realize that the steering wheel they are playing with does not control anything. This example
demonstrates our sometimes misplaced sense of control over - Answers free will and our own behavior
research on people's use of the covariation model in making attributions suggests that people are less
likely to use _________ information than Kelley's model predicts - Answers consensus
Because the knowledge that we are mortal and that bad things can happen to us is very difficult to
accept, we often make ___________ attributions - Answers defensive
what is social psychology - Answers -scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to
one another
-the goal is to uncover/discover universal laws of human behavior, which is why cross-culture research is
often essential
social psychology's relatives - Answers sociology
anthropology
, economics
neuroscience/ biology
clinical psych
cognitive psych
developmental psych
personaliy psych
how social psych differs from its relative sciences - Answers -different levels of analysis
-main focus of social psych is "why" answers
-level of analysis= the main focus of research
-the main level of analysis for social psych is to seek and identify universal properties of human nature
that make everyone susceptible to social influence regardless of social class or culture
T/F people in a sad mood are less likely to help others than are people in a neutral mood - Answers false
T/F if 10 people are all telling you the same thing you are more likely to conform publicly to their opinion
than if just 5 people are telling you the same thing - Answers false
T/F the greater the cohesiveness or solidarity of a group, the better its decisions will be - Answers false
T/F physically attractive people are usually seen as less intelligent than physically unattractive people -
Answers false
T/F promising and delivering rewards to people for doing an enjoyable activity will, in the long run, make
hem enjoy the activity less - Answers false
Hindsight bias - Answers the tendency to exaggerate one's ability to have foreseen an outcome after
learning about it
proverbial and anecdotal knowledge - Answers can support almost any claim
Social psych uses _____________________________- to answer questions about human nature -
Answers the scientific method
through cafeully designed experiments, social psych are able to _______________________ - Answers
distinguish between 'common sense' and the truth
theory - Answers integrated principles that explain and predict observed events
hypothesis - Answers testable predictions that allow theories to be tested
