Social Psych Chapter 1 (Part 2)

What definition defines a theoretical term in a way that allows it to be manipulated or measured?

Conceptual Definition

Operational Definition

Research Definition

Constructional Definition

A non-critical acceptance of science as the only way to arrive at true knowledge: science as religion...what term does this statement describe?

Systematic review

Positivism

Experimentation

Social Psychology

The types of concepts, mechanisms and language used to explain a phenomenon is known as:

Level of explanation

Level of exploration

Levels of exploitation

Level of understanding

What term describes: A theoretical approach that explains ‘useful’ psychological traits, such as memory, perception or language, as adaptations through natural selection?

Evolutionary social psychology

Evolutionary sociopsychology

Evolutionary sociologylogy

Evolutionary psychology

Set of interrelated concepts and principles concerning which theories or types of theory are appropriate. This statement describes:

Theories

A set of theories

Metatheory

Theoretical sets

Internal validity is also known as experimental realism.

True

False

Subject effects are effects that are not spontaneous, owing to demand characteristics and/ or participants wishing to please the experimenter.

True

False

Which theorist speaks to social facilitation?

Norman Tripplett

Fritz Heider

B.F. Skinner

Leon Festinger

In field experiments, we have more control over extraneous variables.

True

False

The tendency to seek, interpret and create information that verifies existing explanations for the cause of an event is known as:

Confirmation effect

Confirmation bias

Experimenter bias

Subject bias

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