PSYC 3221 EXAM 1 Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) Social Psychology - Correct Answers ✅Scientific study of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, especially in relation to other people.Tripplett's Experiment - Correct Answers ✅Studied race time with other cyclists vs. the clock Presence of others releases competitive instinct, enhancing performance Tested hypothesis using a competition machine Time faster with another person Ringelmann's Work - Correct Answers ✅Studied social dynamics of tug-o-war Measured amount of effort exerted by each person As group size increased, individual effort decreased "social loafing" What was the theoretical divide among psychologists in the 1950s and 1960s - Correct Answers ✅Behaviorism explains behavior in terms of learning principles, no reference to inner states Freudian psychoanalysis by looking deep into the unconcious ABC triad - Correct Answers ✅Affect - how people feel Behavior - what people do 1 / 2
PSYC 3221 EXAM 1 Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) Cognition - what people think about How does the subject matter of social psychology relate to the subject matter of other scientific disciplines? - Correct Answers ✅Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Science,and Sociology Independent Variable - Correct Answers ✅Manipulated by researcher in a true experiment, proposed cause Dependent Variable - Correct Answers ✅Observable behavior or response, effect What is the purpose of operational definitions? - Correct Answers ✅Used to define variables and how they will be measured in the study
ex: sexual arousal = writing about sexually arousing event
risk taking = choosing hit option in blackjack Quasi Experiment - Correct Answers ✅Different levels of IV but no random assignment Can infer cause and effect but not conclusively Lab Experiments - Correct Answers ✅Controlled settings Participants only see and hear intended stimuli
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