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1. A presumed cause must occur before the presumed effect is known as what?________ ___________________________________________________Covariation of relationship
2. Which of the following is an organized system of ideas that seeks to explain why two or more events are related _______________________________________________________ theory
3. In an experiment when the researcher can identify a given person’s response but not to do so publicly ________________________________________________________ Confidentiality
4. Which of the following justified when each and every element has an equal chance of being included __________________________________________________ Probability samples
5. Which of the following is defined as a group of people who are selected to participate in a given study?________________________________________________________________ Sample
6. Which of the following hormones makes male more aggressive then females?__ Testosterone
7. Which of the following independent variable Federman (1994-1998) used in his research?____- __________________________________________________________________TV violence 8. Which of the

following is NOT a reason why a random sample is important?_____________

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10.

Which of the following is the abbreviation of the IRB? ______Institutional review boards

11.

“How do we know when someone is lying or telling truth” is an example of:_______________

12.

Who wrote the third book on social psychology? ________________________Floyd Allport

13.

Which one is not a characteristic of empirical research?______________ Not well planned

14.

Which of the following is not a data collection technique?____________________ Reliability 15. IQ is an

abbreviation of ___________________________________ Intelligence quotient

16.

Which of the following is not a step in the research process?__________ Subjective needs

17.

Well-planned, internally consistent and replicable are characteristics of which of the following?___________________________________________________ Empirical research

18.

In which year US government established Institutional Review boards for research involving human participants?________________________________________________________ 1974

19.

Which of the following research’s aim is to simply increase knowledge about social behavior, knowledge for knowledge's sake?____________________________________ Basic research

20.

Heredity & physiology, past experiences and current situational factors are included in which of the following levels?____________ _________________________Individual level explanations 21. Which of the following variable controlled by the researcher in an experiment?_______ _____________________________________________________________________Independent variable

22.

Which of the following best defines that a student is given candy and soft drinks along with words of praise for a superb performance?_____________________________ Reinforcement

23.

The process of selecting a subset of a population for a survey is known as what__ Sampling

24.

Which of the following are individual evaluative responses?____________________ Attitude

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26.

“whether early deprivation can cause a deterioration in IQ” is an example of which goal of research?___________________________________________________________ Prediction

27.

Which of the following sampling technique involves selecting respondents primarily on the basis of their availability and willingness to respond?_________________ Accidental sample

28.

Which of the following transient states of arousal that direct our behavior________ Emotions

29.

Social psychology is the scientific study of : _______________________________________

__________________________how people relate to and are changed by other people

30.

A possible topic studied by a social psychologist is : ___________________all of the above

31.

Which factor would a social psychologist emphasize in explaining why a person commits a

violent crime?__________________having recently experienced a frustrating

situation

32.

The belief that adult behavior can be traced to unresolved psychological conflicts from one's childhood is a hallmark of: _________________________________________gestalt

psychology

33.

Why might our informal observations of social life lead us to wrong conclusions? ____________________________________________________________________all of the above

34.

Although much of their research was conducted with rats and pigeons, _____________ believed that the same principles applied to humans. _________________________________behaviorists

35.

Which name is most associated with the theory of behaviorism? _____________B.F. Skinner

36.

Alana is thrown out of a basketball game because of her aggressive behavior. Which type of theorist would explain her behavior as a result of powerful inborn impulses or drives?

_________________________________________________________a psychoanalytic theorist

37.

Which type of theorist would argue that people perceive situations or events as "dynamic wholes"? ____________________________________________________a gestalt

psychologist

38.

Whenever Carlos asks a question in his psychology class, his professor nods her head and smiles at him in response. Carlos' frequent questions can be explained as a result of:

_____________________________________________________________________reinforcement

39.

You can experience greater apprehension when you realize that you are the object of other’s______.______________________________________________________________Attenti

on

40.

Virtual reality creates a virtual research environment using a ______Computer Simulation

41. _________ is a statistical technique to determine whether specific variable have

important effects across studies. __________________________________________________Meta analysis

42.

Relationship between two variables is described by the statistical measure known as _________. __________________________________________________Correlation Coefficient

43. ________ are structured sets of questions given to a group of people to measure their attitude,

beliefs and behavioral tendencies. ______________________________________________ Surveys

44. _______ observation is a form of observational method that investigates behavior in its natural

environment. _____________________________________________________________Naturalistic

45.

In Experimental Research manipulated variable is called __________. Independent

variable

46.

A theory is an organized form of ________._______________________________________

Ideas

47.

_______ is a group of people who are selected to participate in a given study _______Sample

48.

Frontal lobes are involved in the coordination of _______. ___________________Movements

49.

Leonard Berkowitz explains how ______________________ is often triggered by circumstances that arouse negative feelings. _______________________________________Hostile

aggression

50.

The most common treatment is punishment; ultimate punishment is _____________. ___Death

51.

______________ is a form of helping in which the ultimate goal of the helper is to increase one’s own welfare. ________________________________________________________Egoistic

helping 52.

________________debriefing with the participants indicated that some participants who did not intervene claimed that they were either unsure of what had occurred or did not think that the situation was very serious.__________________________________________Post experimental

53.

Two or more people, who interact with one another, share common goals, are somehow interdependent, and recognize that they belong to a ___________. _____________________Group

54.

_______________in individual output when performers’ efforts are pooled and so cannot be individually judged. ________________________________________Group-induced reduction

55.

Christina Demetriou and Andrew Silke established a _____________to determine whether people who visited to gain access to legal material will also try to gain access to illegal and pornographic material. _______________________________________________________Web site

56.

Diener indicates that the crucial cognitive factor in deindividuation is a lack of _______