Social Psychology Chapter 1
Social Psychology Challenge
Test your knowledge on the fascinating field of Social Psychology with our comprehensive quiz! Whether you are a student, teacher, or simply someone interested in human behavior, this quiz will help you explore key concepts and theories.
With 25 engaging questions, you will cover a wide range of topics including:
- Conformity and obedience
- Research methods
- Ethical considerations in psychological studies
- Historical milestones in psychology
Who came up with the theory on conformity?
Henri Tajfel
Leon Festinger
Stanley Milgram
Solomon Asch
Where and in what year did modern social psychology begin?
United States 1960s
Germany 1920s
Russia 1940s
United States 1920s
What did Stanley Milgram's experiment speak to?
Conformity
Adherence
Obedience
Communication
Which theorist wanted to find out the effect of real, imagined and implied presence of other people in relation to someone's performance on a task?
George Herbert Mead
Zimbardo
Norman Triplett
Fritz Heider
All of the following are examples of non-experimental methods except:
Correlational study
Laboratory experiment
Case study
Field studies
What ethical principles were violated in the tuskegee experiment? (Select all that apply)
Autonomy
Informed consent
Justice
Non-malificence
In what year was the American Psychological Association established?
1974
1972
1971
1975
Internal validity is also known as mundane realism?
True
False
FMRI is an abbreviation for:
Factorial Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Fractional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Fragmented Magnetic Resonance Imaging
What are the 3 overarching themes in social psychology?
Social influence, social perception and social interaction
Social isolation, social perception and social cognition
Social perception, social influence and social cognition
Social perception, social cognition and social influence
Field experiments have high internal validity?
True
False
A set of methods used to analyze texts is known as:
Archival Research
Statistical analysis
Systematic research
Discourse analysis
Individuals who attempt to explain behavior in terms of contextual factors and unobservable intervening constructs such as beliefs, feelings and motives are known as:
Neo-behaviourits
Radical behaviourits
Behaviourists
Neobehaviours
The father of positivism is
Fritz Heider
Aguste Comte
Steinthal
Norman Triplett
Which of the following methods creates artificial conditions?
Laboratory
Field experiments
Field studies
Case studies
Which of the following is the most important research method in science?
Systematic experimentation
Nonsystematic experimentation
Systematic discourse analysis
Systematic representation
What is the latest edition of the American Psychological Association?
2020
2007
2017
2002
"People are products of their location in the matrix of social categories and groups that make up society." Which theory does this statement describe?
Evolutionary
Collectivist
Sociocultural
Societal
Social psychology is in crisis because it is not overly reductionist (explain behaviour mainly in terms of individual psychology) but overly positivist.
True
False
Identify the non-experimental research method that would be used to study mass murderers
Case study
Correlational study
Field study
Surveys
What bias are case studies likely to suffer from?
Research bias
Experimenter bias
Outcome bias
Subject bias
A degree of deception is unnecessary in a study.
True
False
Theorists that believe that behaviour can be explained and predicted in terms of reinforcement schedules are known as
Neo-behaviourists
Radical behaviourists
Cognitive theorits
Social theorists
Two or more independent variables may covary in such a way that it is impossible to know which has caused the effect. What term is used to describe this?
Confounding
Extraneal
Counteracting
Controlling
The practice of explaining a phenomenon with the language and concepts of a lower level of analysis is known as:
Reductorism
Reductionarism
Revitalism
Reductionism
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