PSY403 Midterm Quiz Merged

PSY403

Assessments for Mids

1. When we talk about individual level explanation, that can affect human social behavior, we are referring to: (Childhood experiences, and family history)
2. “How can society reduce stereotyping and discrimination”, is a question related to the studies of: (Prejudice)
3. Which of the following can be considered as the main element of definition of Social Psychology? (Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors of individual)
4. When we talk about schemas, we refer to: (Mental model that people hold)
5. While talking about the role of mediating variables, beliefs comprise of: (Cognitive information)
6. Which of the following is the scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave toward other people and how individual’s thoughts, feelings, & behaviors are affected by other people? (Social Psychology)
7. Which of the following stable dispositions influence broad domain of behavior? (Personality traits)
8. “How does jury decide guilt or innocence”, can be a question of the researchers investigating: (Social cognition)
9. Which of the following variable’s effect indicate that one must slip inside the skin of individual in order to understand individual’s thoughts, feelings and behavior? (Mediating variables)
10. Which one of the following statements best refers to the phenomenon of interpersonal attraction? (“Why do people desire to make friends with one and not the others”)
11. Which of the following theories posit that peoples’ thoughts and actions are motivated by a desire to maintain cognitive consistentency? (Cognitive Dissonance Theory)
12. Who suggested that the larger social psychology is employed in both psychological social psychology, and sociological social psychology? (Edward Jones)
13. Which of the following method is employed by Sociological Social Psychology as the primary research method? (Observational and the correlational studies followed by experimentation)
14. The core interest of Sociological Social Psychology is in individual differences, while social psychology is focused upon: (The impact of culture on social behavior)
15. The core interest of social psychology is to study the impact of culture on social behavior, while sociological social psychology’s is becoming increasingly interested in: (Individual differences)
16. The role of social psychologist is not very diverse in Pakistan and they are mainly working in: (Universities and NGOs)
17. Sociological Social Psychology mainly focuses upon: (Group/society)
18. While making friends or falling in love, we are attracted to the people having same trait as ours, it can be referred to: (Birds of a feather flock together)
19. Which of the following method is employed by Psychological Social Psychology as the primary research method? (Experimentation followed by correlational studies and observation)
20. Which of the following simply aims to increase knowledge about social behavior and knowledge for knowledge's sake? (Basic research)
21. Previous research and real world, both serve best for the selection of: (The research question)
22. Which of the following method consists of a set of procedures used to gather, analyze, and interpret information in a way that reduces error and leads to dependable generalizations? (Experimentation)
23. The presumed cause must occur before the presumed effect, is a phenomenon referred to as: (Time-order relationship)
24. Well-planning, control for errors, internal and external consistency and replicability are characteristics of: (Empirical research)
25. Books, research articles, electronic databases, e.g., PsycINFO, etc. and unpublished material, can all be considered as: (Sources of literature)
26. While conducting research, social psychologists generally investigate topics that: (Have relevance to their own lives and culture)
27. Which of the following is designed to increase the understanding of and solutions to real world problems by using current social psychological knowledge? (Applied Research)
28. Which of the following rely on empirical procedures, rather than intuition, and attempt to control those factors believed responsible for a phenomenon? (Scientific method)
29. Which of the following is specific proposition or expectation about the nature of things derived from a theory? (Hypotheses)
30. Which of the following consists of all the members of an identifiable group from which a sample is drawn? (Population)
31. Which of the following is a group of people who are selected to participate in a study? (Sample)
32. When we say that whether a theory can reliably predict behavior or not, we are referring to its: (Predictive accuracy)
33. “Individuals who watch a great deal of TV violence during childhood will be more physically aggressive in adulthood than individual who watch little TV violence”, this statement can be: (A hypothesis)
34. “Exposure to a lot of TV violence is detrimental to children’s social development’, this statement can be: (A theory)
35. The things which can be varied and measured in the research are called: (Variables)
36. If a theory only contains the principles or concepts necessary to explain the phenomenon in question, it means that a theory is: (Economical)
37. The notion that there should not be any logical inconsistencies or unexplained coincidences among any of the theoretical ideas in a theory, refers to its: (Internal coherence)
38. Which of the following is an organized system of ideas that seeks to explain why two or more events are related. (A theory)
39. Which of the following is very precise description of how the variables have been quantified so that they can be measured? (Operational definition)
40. Which of the following involves selecting respondents primarily on the basis of their availability and willingness to respond, like newspaper interviews of people on the streets? (Accidental sampling)
41. Which of the following is non-experimental design geared towards describing phenomena. e.g., a qualitative study of the environment in an intensive care unit? (Descriptive investigations)
42. Which of the following is useful to measure important subjective states, e.g., attitudes, emotions, and perceptions? (Self-reports)
43. Which of the following exists in a non-numeric form? (Qualitative data)
44. Court records and newspaper are parts of: (Archival information)
45. Which of the following is a scientific method involves systematic qualitative and/or quantitative descriptions of behavior? (Observational research)
46. Which of the following is combination of independent and dependent group designs, hence