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1. Oliver tells Kate that his dad took a second job at the mall over the holiday
season. Oliver's dad has a long white beard, a round belly, and a jolly laugh, so Kate guesses that he worked as a mall Santa. Kate is probably relying on which of the following in making this judgment?: Representativeness
2. Imagine that Ben and Eva are Honours students who are both collecting data
in the lab for a project examining the correlation between fruit consumption and IQ among UBC students. Ben has a busy schedule this term, so he can only run 5 people per week through the study, whereas Eva runs 20 people per week. They know the average IQ among UBC students is 125. At the end of the first week though, one of the Honours students finds that the average IQ among their own participants was 140, while the other Honours student finds that the average IQ among their participants was 123. Their friend Jake has never taken a psychology class, and just for fun, they ask him to guess the results. Based on this week's reading, what is most likely to be true?: Ben's participants had an average IQ of 140
3. Think back to the study by Kelly in which a guest professor gave a lecture. This
study most clearly illustrates which of the following ideas?: The importance of subjective construal
4. Imagine that your classmate tells you that they did this week's reading before
watching the videos, and they found the reading confusing. You remind them of Dr. Dunn's recommendation to do the reading AFTER watching the videos. What example or study should you remind them about to support this recom- mendation?: The example of recalling a set of instructions with or without seeing a picture of a washing machine
5. Your friends Lin and Kia are math majors who usually spend about an hour
working on problem sets. They are each enrolled in different sections of the same large math class. They have the same professor and the same assign-
ments, but they have different TA's. Lin's TA tells all of his students that they should spend about 30 minutes on each problem set. Kia's TA tells all of her students that they should spend about 2 hours on each problem set. As a result, Lin typically spends 45 minutes on each problem set, while Kia spends 90 minutes. What study/example should you tell your friends about to explain why
the upcoming midterm. In class today, the professor warned them that the midterm will be very difficult. Josh sends a sarcastic text message to the whole study group afterward, saying "I'm sure this exam will be easy as pie." Based on their research on email, Kruger and colleagues would probably make which of the following predictions:: Josh will overestimate his own ability to convey his sarcasm via text.
11. Imagine that four UBC professors get together to decide how to better meet
the needs of students. Dr. Norton has experience teaching 1st years and 3nd years, Dr. Carney and Dr. Cuddy both have experience teaching 2nd years and 3rd years, and Dr. Cho has experience teaching students at all levels. Based on research covered in this module, whose needs will be likely to get discussed the most?: 3rd years
12. When in-person classes first resumed after the pandemic, we formed 308
teams based on mask-related preferences. So, some teams consisted entirely of people who wanted to be part of a group where everyone would wear masks ("masked teams"), while other teams consisted entirely of people where no one wanted to wear a mask ("unmasked teams"). We asked everyone in the class to rate their attitudes toward wearing masks on the first and last day of class. Let's say we found that people on "masked teams" exhibited an increase in their attitudes about the value of wearing masks, while those on the unmasked teams exhibited a decrease. This finding would be most consistent with what other study or hypothetical example you learned about this week?: The hypothetical example in which friends were trying to decide whether to go to Whistler or Tofino.
13. Let's say that once your team starts working on your term paper, each of you
has a very different idea about the overall direction to take in the paper. Which of the following recommendations would Joaquin Navajas, Mariano Sigman, and their colleagues be most likely to offer based on their 2018 research?: The team should spend time together discussing each member's ideas before making a decision about the best one to pursue.
14. An important theme of this course is that science is a conversation; in
reading the articles for this course, you should notice how scientists use past research as a "springboard" to launch their own research idea. That is, in a typical scientific article, the authors identify what past research has shown
15. Avni just moved to Vancouver and started a new job. She's heard that her
boss Carina is very businesslike and doesn't like to waste time getting to know employees. So, during her first meeting with Carina, Avni doesn't share anything about herself or her family, and when Carina asks how she and her family are liking Vancouver, Avni gives a very brief answer and immediately asks a question about the job. So, Carina doesn't ask any more questions about Avni's personal life for the rest of the meeting. Which of the following studies is most relevant to understanding Carina's behavior during the meeting?: Rosenthal's study in which teachers were told some students would bloom
16. Alison conducts an experiment on self-control that has 3 conditions, as part
of her Honours project. She analyzes her data and finds a small difference between conditions with a p of .08. She is disappointed that she didn't find a significant difference, so her friends (who are also psych majors) make some suggestions to try to help. Which of these suggestions could increase the likelihood that she will obtain a false-positive result?: All of the above
17. One of the most important changes that has happened in the field to combat
p-hacking is pre-registration. Pre-registration might be thought of as a way for researchers to overcome a potential self-control failure (i.e., the temptation to p-hack). Duckworth et al (2018) would probably classify pre-registration as a form of...: Commitment device
18. In his TEDx talk, Dan Ariely argues that self-control can be enhanced through
reward substitution, which he applied to completing his treatment regimen for Hepatitis C. Which of the following studies is designed to test the same idea, that reward substitution promotes self-control?: Chocolate lovers who are planning to take the LSAT (for admission to law school) are all invited to weekly study sessions. Half of them are provided with chocolate at the study sessions and asked not to each chocolate during the rest of the week. Meanwhile, the others are given celery at the study sessions. The researchers measure how many study sessions each participant attends over the course of the
semester.
19. Simmons et al (2011) note that "The example shown in Figure 2 contradicts
the often-espoused yet erroneous intuition that if an effect is significant with a small sample size than it would necessarily be significant with a larger one." This intuition that we can trust findings based on small samples (as much as
friend most likely drawing on, in making this novel prediction?: Mike Norton's research on online dating
23. Imagine that shortly after Finkel et al's (2013) article was published, you saw
a bunch of people sharing the results of the study on Twitter/X. Of course, you know that on social media, many people who post about an article haven't actually read it carefully. Which of the following tweets was probably written
by someone who did NOT really read the article?: Neither @Barry75 nor @CanaKing read the article.
24. Which of the following is a limitation of Finkel et al's (2013) study?: b. They included
only heterosexual couples.
25. In this week's reading, Latane and Darley (1968) reported that, "Despite the
obvious and powerful inhibiting effect of other bystanders, subjects almost invariably claimed that they had paid little or no attention to the reactions of the other people in the room" (p. 220). Imagine that your roommate (who is not taking 308) reads this section of the paper and is puzzled by this discrepancy. What other study that you've learned about in a previous module would be most relevant to tell your roommate about to help them understand this discrepancy?: Nisbett & Wilson's study in which participants rated how much they liked pairs of pantyhose
26. Imagine there is a new mapping app for drivers called WatchOut, which al-
lows drivers to easily indicate any hazard they see on the road, such as a pile of fallen rocks on the highway. Whenever any member records a driving hazard on the app, all other members of WatchOut automatically see the hazard appear on their map, too. You just accepted a job at WatchOut. You propose adding a small icon that indicates whether or not each hazard has been reported to the police yet. What should you tell your boss about to convince her that your idea could save lives?: Darley & Latane's study in which someone had an apparent epileptic seizure
27. Kruger et al (2005) argue that when people write an email, they use their own
interpretation of their message as a starting point in judging how other people will interpret their message, creating a systematic bias. This idea builds most closely on which of the following studies you've learned about this semester?- : Englich et al's study of German judges sentencing a shoplifter
28. You belong to a lab that is studying prosocial behaviour. You are interested
the large lab room to sign consent forms, and then put each of them in their own individual lab rooms to complete questionnaires; while the participants complete questionnaires, the confederate would scream in the hallway. Whose idea should you and your friend use?: You should take Allie's suggestion and your friend should take Tomoko's suggestion.
29. Think back to the Simpsons episode you analyzed in terms of cognitive
dissonance theory, and focus on Lisa Simpson. Lisa's experience was most similar to the experience of participants in which of the following experimental conditions? (Be sure to think about this conceptually, in terms of the theory, not in terms of the surface details.): Participants who received $20 to tell a lie in Festinger & Carlsmith's study
30. Christie and Debbie share custody of their 11 year-old daughter Ella, who
just got her first smartphone and has been spending a lot of time on it. Christie wants Ella to put her phone away during dinner, and she wants Ella to stick with this desired behavior even on nights when Christie isn't around. Christie knows you've been taking social psychology, so she asks you for advice about whether and how to punish Ella for using the phone at dinner on nights when she is with Ella. Based on Festinger's article that you read this week, what would you recommend that Christie do?: Tell Ella that if she uses her phone during dinner, she will have to do the dishes afterward, which is the mildest form of punishment that will get Ella to put the phone away during dinners with Christie.
31. To encourage people to buy electric vehicles (EVs), the government now
offers a subsidy to help condo buildings in Vancouver install electric vehicle chargers (which makes owning an EV much more feasible). A large apartment building on Main Street just had chargers installed, so many residents are considering replacing their gas guzzlers with EVs. A few blocks away, another building on 16th avenue is planning to have chargers installed in 5 - 7 years. Meanwhile, as another way of encouraging EV purchases, the city govern-
ment plans to distribute flyers about the advantages of buying EV's in all the buildings that have expressed interest in installing chargers at any point. The government hires you for your expertise on the Elaboration Likelihood Model. Based on this model, what would you recommend the government do in order
condition they were in at Science World, students' scores 2 weeks after the trip will be similar to their classmates' average level of bias as measured 2 weeks before the trip.
36. Vuletich and Payne's (2019) study provides direct evidence for which of the
following causal conclusions?: d) None of the above
37. You have been hired as consultant to assist with the merger of two engi-
neering companies. The two companies have been fierce competitors in the past, and employees of each company have some negative stereotypes about employees of the other company. Your goal is to reduce these stereotypes and help the two groups get along. Drawing on research examining how contact can reduce stereotypes/prejudice between groups, it is essential to do all of the following EXCEPT:: d) Ensure that employees from each company have many more positive interactions than negative interactions with employees from the other company.
38. As you know, an important theme of this course is that science is a con-
versation. Imagine that you have a new friend who is a psychology major on exchange from another university. He tells you that he's always been taught to think of science as a list of facts that he needs to learn and memorize. You try to explain the idea that "science is a conversation," but he doesn't really get it, so you decide to show him this idea in action by sharing one video and one reading from this course with him. What would be best to share in order to show him this idea in action?: b) This week's lecture video on authority and norms (with Dr. Schaller) and this week's reading by Dominic Packer
39. Think about the standard (i.e., baseline) condition of Stanley Milgram's fa-
mous experiment. Dr. Mark Schaller argued that participants faced a conflict between two norms: (1) don't hurt people and (2) obey authority. In the context of Milgram's standard condition, the first norm is and the second norm is .: b) An injunctive norm; an injunctive norm
40. Mark Schaller and Dominic Packer each provide their own perspectives on
Milgram's classic research. What aspect of Dr. Schaller's interpretation do you think Dominic Packer would argue against?: a) "Don't hurt people" was an important social norm driving participants' behaviour.
while most students at the University of Toronto are not wearing masks. You are deciding whether to make current descriptive norms or injunctive norms salient in your campaign on these campuses. What would Cialdini (2003) be most likely to predict?: b) At Toronto, messages emphasizing injunctive norms will be more ettective than messages emphasizing descriptive norms.
42. Susan is running for student body president of her high school against a
popular athlete named Jim. The election will be held at an assembly after school using secret ballots, so students have to decide whether to bother sticking around to attend the assembly, as well as whether to vote for Susan or Jim. Susan has been thinking a lot about various sources of conformity pressure in her school, which could affect her classmates' choices. Based on your expertise from this module, is likely to play an essential role in shaping students' choices about whether to attend the assembly, and is likely to play an essential role in whether to vote for Susan vs. Jim.: a) normative social influence; informational social influence
43. When in-person classes first resumed after the pandemic, we formed 308
teams based on mask-related preferences. So, some teams consisted entirely of people who wanted to be part of a group where everyone would wear masks ("masked teams"), while other teams consisted entirely of people where no one wanted to wear a mask ("unmasked teams"). We asked everyone in the class to rate their attitudes toward wearing masks on the first and last day of class. Let's say we found that people on "masked teams" exhibited an increase in their attitudes about the value of wearing masks, while those on the unmasked teams exhibited a decrease. This finding would be most consistent with what other study or hypothetical example you learned about this week?:
