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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

25 Questions6 MinutesCreated by ThinkingMind42

Where and in what year did modern social psychology begin?

United States 1960s

Germany 1920s

Russia 1940s

United States 1920s

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

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

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

Which of the following is the most important research method in science?

Systematic experimentation

Nonsystematic experimentation

Systematic discourse analysis

Systematic representation

"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

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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