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Community Psychology explores the relationships between individuals and their communities, focusing on how social, cultural, economic, and environmental factors impact well-being. This course examines theories, research, and interventions aimed at promoting psychological health and empowerment at a community level. Students will learn about prevention strategies, community organizing, advocacy, and policy development, as well as approaches for addressing social issues such as inequality, discrimination, and social justice. Emphasis is placed on participatory methods and collaboration with diverse community stakeholders to create positive change.
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Applied Social Psychology 3rd Edition by Jamie A. Gruman
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Chapter 1: Defining the Field of Applied Social Psychology
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Q1) Understanding social psychological phenomena involves the attainment of several goals.Which is NOT one of them?
A) prediction
B) explanation
C) theory verification
D) description
Answer: C
Q2) Social psychologists devote primary attention to the role of the social context or situational factors in understanding and explaining the complexities of human social behavior; as a result,taking into account other relevant perspectives is deemed ineffective and unnecessary.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which is true with respect to scientific understanding?
A) Explanation is synonymous with establishing cause and effect.
B) Simple description is one type of understanding.
C) Biased prediction is a type of understanding.
D) Explaining why something occurs is unimportant.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Social Psychological Theory
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Q1) The ______ of a theory refers to the number of different human behaviors that the theory attempts to explain.
A) range
B) scope
C) parsimony
D) depth
Answer: B
Q2) Social psychological theories differ from each other in terms of ______.
A) scope and range
B) range and relevance
C) relevance and generalizability
D) generalizability and scope
Answer: A
Q3) The theory of planned behavior was developed based on the theory of reasoned action.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Research Methods in Applied Social Psychology
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Q1) All good research begins with a ______ that is often translated into a(n)______.
A) question; hypothesis
B) question; operational definition
C) variable; question
D) variable; hypothesis
Answer: A
Q2) In their research article on video games and social behavior,Gentile et al. (2009)reported a study in which Singaporean children's exposure to prosocial video games was positively correlated with an index of their tendency to display prosocial behavior.The researchers concluded that the results were consistent with the notion that A) prosocial behavior does not lead to increases in prosocial video game playing B) experience playing prosocial video games leads to increases in prosocial behavior
C) a correlation exists
D) there is no relation between prosocial behavior and experience playing prosocial video games
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Intervention and Evaluation
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Q1) Suppose that you are designing a program to get grade school boys to make more use of recreational activities at a neighborhood community center.You take steps to deal with the problem of reactance.Which of the following most clearly addresses reactance?
A) You tell kids the doors of the center are open everyday of the week, and they can come by anytime they like.
B) You ensure that the activities at the center are age appropriate.
C) You advise the kids to come together with their friends.
D) You tell kids that there are some high school boys at the center who help to organize activities and spend time with the younger kids.
Q2) The authors of Chapter 4 ("Intervention and Evaluation")note that intervention design is
A) a collaborative process
B) always led by a researcher
C) incomplete unless qualitative research methods are employed
D) not constrained by legal considerations
Q3) The process of designing and implementing an intervention follows four steps.Name and describe these four steps.
Q4) Name and describe the two main types of program evaluation.
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Chapter 5: Applying Social Psychology to Clinical and Counseling Psychology
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Q1) For a long time,Bob regularly approached his boss to offer what he thought were useful suggestions regarding ways to improve the department in which he worked.However,Bob's boss always ignored him and Bob eventually stopped offering suggestions.One day,Bob's boss moved to a new company,and Bob found himself with a new boss.However,Bob continued to never offer any suggestions.Which psychological phenomenon best helps to account for Bob's behavior?
A) bystander effect
B) helplessness
C) social anxiety
D) self-presentational motivation
Q2) In the qualitative study by Smith and Rhodes (2015),participants were asked to describe what it was like being depressed.The researchers interviewed seven people about their experience of being depressed and looked for commonalities in their experiences.This form of research is an example of ______.
A) grounded theory
B) case study
C) phenomenology
D) survey research
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Chapter 6: Applying Social Psychology to Sports Teams
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Q1) Which of the following is the most accurate statement regarding team communication and performance?
A) Team communication is not related to performance.
B) Task communication is not related to team performance.
C) Social communication is related to team performance.
D) Social communication is not related to team performance.
Q2) Research suggests that social cohesion may be more important than task cohesion with respect to team performance.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Eccles and Tenenbaum (2007),an alternative way of conceptualizing intrateam communication in sport is as a ______.
A) social outcome
B) social cognitive exchange
C) social performance
D) social evaluation
Q4) Research on sports teams suggests that team goal setting plays a key role in performance outcomes.Three types of goal orientation are noted in the text.Name and describe two types.
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Chapter 7: Applying Social Psychology to the Media
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Q1) In relation to violent TV programs and movies,the cathartic effect refers to the process by which people relieve their stress and aggressive impulses from watching violence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What conclusion can we legitimately draw from research on the relationship between watching TV violence and people's perception of how hostile the world is?
A) Perceptions of a hostile world lead people to stay indoors and watch more TV, including violent programs.
B) Watching TV violence leads people to conclude that the world is more hostile.
C) Watching TV violence and perceptions of hostility are not causally related.
D) Perceptions of hostility and watching TV violence are both influenced by a third variable.
Q3) When we say that a behavior is overdetermined,we mean that
A) there is nothing someone can do to prevent that behavior
B) the behavior has been well practiced, to the point of being almost automatic
C) an excessive amount of thought went into planning it
D) the behavior is influenced by many different factors
Q4) The text describes two main types of frames.Describe both in detail.
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Chapter 8: Applying Social Psychology to Health
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Q1) Informational appeals are based on the idea that people will be more likely to pay attention to a message and to subsequently act to change their health behavior if their related fears are activated.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Health promotion and ______ share the goal of keeping people free of disease.
A) primary prevention
B) secondary prevention
C) tertiary prevention
D) public health
Q3) Explain the theory of planned behavior,and list the components of the model.
Q4) Health psychology appeared in the ______ and took hold in the ______.
A) 1820s; 1870s
B) 1890s; 1970s
C) 1970s; 1980s
D) 1900s; 2000s
Q5) Differentiate between the biomedical model and the biopsychosocial model.
Q6) Differentiate between health literacy and critical health literacy.
Q7) Define the term social support,and describe two forms of support cited in the text.
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Chapter 9: Applying Social Psychology to Education
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Q1) Which of the following is a recommended tactic for teachers to use if they want to foster greater intrinsic motivation among their students?
A) Give students more time for independent work.
B) Spend more time giving instructions to students.
C) Avoid feedback that focuses on improving students' mastery of tasks.
D) Give timely feedback regarding whether students have made their deadlines.
Q2) Which of the following is most accurate?
A) African American students are more likely to respond to teachers' overestimates of their abilities.
B) European American students are unaffected by their teachers estimates of their abilities.
C) African American students are equally likely to respond to teachers' overestimates or underestimates of their abilities.
D) African American students are more likely to respond to teachers' underestimates of their abilities.
Q3) Differentiate between self-handicapping and procrastination.
Q4) What is meant by self-serving strategies? Give an example of a type of self-serving strategy.
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Chapter 10: Applying Social Psychology to Organizations
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Q1) A halo effect occurs when people perceive others who are like themselves more favorably than they do others who are dissimilar.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the ______ perspective of communication,the locus of communication is the channel.
A) interpretative symbolic
B) mechanistic
C) nonverbal behavior
D) psychological
Q3) Selective perception is defined as the process of interpreting information about how we view others and ourselves.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Perceptual biases refer to errors that distort the perception process and thus lead to faulty judgments.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain what is meant by the term groupthink.
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Chapter 11: Applying Social Psychology to the Criminal Justice System
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Q1) If a juror's views about a case have been biased by media coverage,the bias most closely reflects ______ prejudice.
A) interest
B) normative C) generic
D) specific
Q2) Jurors,like everyone else,are not impartial.Name the four types of bias faced by jurors,and explain two in depth.
Q3) Which is true with respect to the prison system?
A) The vast majority of people serving time serve their sentences in the community rather than in prison.
B) During the last 40 years or so, there has been a shift away from goals and philosophy that emphasize punishment to those that emphasize rehabilitation.
C) Research indicates that in general, incarceration is effective in reducing the risk of recidivism.
D) During the last 10 years or so, there has been a shift away from goals and philosophy that emphasize punishment to those that emphasize rehabilitation.
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Chapter 12: Applying Social Psychology to the Community
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the values and approaches endorsed by community psychology?
A) empirical grounding
B) wellness and prevention
C) social activism
D) transtheoretical model
Q2) Community psychology focuses on the relationship between individuals and communities by integrating research and action.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Community psychology stresses that the problems of living that people have are largely produced by ______.
A) disadvantaged circumstances
B) biological issues
C) psychopathology
D) social learning difficulties
Q4) With community psychology,groups need research to take action.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Applying Social Psychology to the Environment
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Q1) Which of the following is likely to occur in research using grounded theory analysis?
A) Participants speak about the reasons for their decisions as they engage in a task.
B) The researcher examines a new theory by centering (i.e., grounding) it in established theories.
C) The research focuses on the discourses drawn on by the participants.
D) Participants challenge the researcher on questions asked.
Q2) Steg and Vlek (2009)delineate four steps to take in the process of promoting pro-environment behavior change and inducing pro-environment behavior.Describe these steps.
Q3) Defensible space theory posits that certain physical design features influence the likely occurrence of crime and feelings of security.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The social dilemma is sometimes called the commons dilemma.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the premise of the equity theory.
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Chapter 14: Applying Social Psychology to Diversity
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Q1) Research on reducing stereotypes has shown that teaching children to de-categorize results in
A) increases in prejudice
B) increases in prejudice but decreases in stereotypes
C) more positive perceptions of diverse ethnic groups
D) less positive perceptions of diverse ethnic groups
Q2) In the research conducted by Swim and Hyers (1999),women were more likely to react verbally to sexist comments when other women were absent.Swim and Hyers explained this phenomenon by drawing upon which of the following social psychological concepts or theories?
A) attribution theory
B) social learning theory
C) diffusion of responsibility
D) priming effect
Q3) Idiocentric is the term given to someone who will tend to do what is seen as best for the group,even if it means giving up personal goals.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain what is meant by diversity.
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Chapter 15: Applying Social Psychology to Personal Relationships
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Q1) Schachter (1959)conducted a classic experiment in which participants anticipated they soon would receive electric shocks.This experiment suggested that high fear A) increased the participants' liking for each other B) decreased the participants' liking for each other C) increased the participants' tendencies to affiliate D) decreased the participants' tendencies to affiliate
Q2) Suppose you view yourself as a 6 on a 10-point scale of physical attractiveness.Research suggests that in selecting a long-term partner,you most likely would choose a person who is a(n)______.
A) 4
B) 6
C) 8
D) 10
Q3) Separation distress refers to attention focused on the lost other and extreme discomfort at that person's inaccessibility.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain what is meant by infantile separation distress.
Q5) Explain the role of proximity and familiarity in establishing relationships.
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Chapter 16: Applying Social Psychology to the Classroom
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Q1) Out-group homogeneity bias refers to the tendency to perceive more variability among members of an out-group than among members of the in-group.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In an experiment by Lepper,Greene,and Nisbett (1973),children drew pictures with markers.Some were given an expected award after they drew their pictures,some were given an unexpected award after they drew their pictures,and some received no award.In follow-up sessions 1 to 2 weeks later,which group(s)spent the lowest amount of time drawing pictures?
A) those who got the expected award
B) those who got the unexpected award
C) those who got no award
D) all groups spent an equal amount of time drawing pictures
Q3) What effect does anger have on the in-group/out-group bias?
A) Anger produces negative attitudes toward the out-group.
B) Anger has no effect on attitudes toward the out-group.
C) Anger produces positive attitudes toward the out-group.
D) Anger produces positive attitudes toward the in-group.
Q4) Differentiate between individualism and collectivism.
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Chapter 17: Applying Social Psychology to the Good Life: Balancing Optimism and Pessimism
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Q1) In the field of positive psychology,self-help techniques that are aimed at helping people to upgrade their well-being are referred to as ______.
A) positive psychology coaching
B) life strategies coaching
C) behavioral retraining
D) well-being boosting
Q2) Optimism has been found to facilitate social,psychological,and physical adjustment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which is true? Synder describes agency thinking as
A) a blending of willpower and commitment
B) knowing what steps are needed to achieve one's goals
C) seeing many workable routes to one's problem
D) a blending of willpower and a sense of mastery
Q4) Research suggests that having excessively high levels of optimism
A) is beneficial for romantic relationships
B) can be detrimental to psychological and physical health
C) is beneficial for psychological health only
D) is beneficial for physical health only
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