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Health Psychology explores the psychological factors that influence health, illness, and healthcare. The course examines how behavior, cognition, and emotion affect physical well-being and how individuals cope with illness and stress. Students learn about the interplay between psychological processes and biological mechanisms, the impact of lifestyle choices on health, and the role of psychological interventions in disease prevention and treatment. Topics include health behavior change, stress and coping, pain management, patient-provider communication, and adaptation to chronic illness, with an emphasis on evidence-based research and practical applications in clinical and community health settings.
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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) The authors of Chapter 1 ("Defining the Field of Applied Social Psychology")state that applied social psychology requires a broad approach.By broad approach,they do NOT recognize which of the following?
A) The field is relevant to virtually all areas of life.
B) The field is mostly relevant to persons characterized by having a more "social" interpersonal style.
C) The field requires a variety of research methods.
D) The field must adopt an interdisciplinary orientation.
Answer: B
Q2) Although social psychologists focus primarily on how social influences affect people,they also seek to understand the interaction between social influences and ______.
A) temperature patterns
B) animal behavior
C) physics experiments
D) individual differences
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Social Psychological Theory
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a function of a theory?
A) to guide intervention
B) to provide organization
C) to aid in education
D) to give direction in research
Answer: C
Q2) The theory of planned behavior allows researchers to better understand why some people download music illegally and then figure out ways to curb that behavior.This serves which function of a theory?
A) description
B) organization
C) direction
D) intervention
Answer: D
Q3) Aronson updated Festinger's theory of dissonance by suggesting that dissonance may arise from any situation in which there is an inconsistency between self-concept and awareness of one's behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Research Methods in Applied Social Psychology
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Q1) Descriptive research is a qualitative research methodology in which researchers describe the characteristics of the population or phenomenon in question.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) What is meant by qualitative research methods? Name two types of qualitative research methods.
Answer: Qualitative research is the name given to a form of inquiry that focuses more on textual rather than numerical analysis.As defined by Creswell (2009),qualitative research represents the "means for exploring and understanding the meaning individuals or groups ascribe to a social or human problem" (p.4).There are six main approaches to qualitative research; these include grounded theory,content analysis,narrative research,phenomenological research,ethnographic research,and case study.
Q3) Mixed-method studies tend to produce studies that are weaker than what can be achieved by relying on one method exclusively.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Intervention and Evaluation
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Q1) When Sherif (1966)set out the rationale for why conflict between groups of boys would be reduced through cooperating in the attainment of superordinate goals,he was articulating a(n)______.
A) intervention hypothesis
B) intervention theory
C) program logic model
D) strategy plan
Q2) Which is true of the eating disorder program designed by Stice and his colleagues (e.g.,Stice et al.,2008)?
A) Participants were young women who met the criteria of having some form of eating disorder.
B) The program activities focused on undermining the thin ideal.
C) The key program activities involved exposure to persuasive messages (e.g., presented by live and video role models).
D) The program activities endorsed the beauty aspect of the thin ideal.
Q3) As highlighted in the text,the path from social psychological knowledge to influencing social policy is seldom straightforward.Describe two factors that preclude the direct use of knowledge in policy decision making.
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Chapter 5: Applying Social Psychology to Clinical and Counseling Psychology
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Q1) 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
Q2) Richard is very concerned about how other people perceive him.He goes to great lengths ensuring that he projects the right impression.It is likely that Richard has ______.
A) low self-monitoring
B) high self-presentational motivation
C) social anxiety
D) low self-efficacy
Q3) The learned helplessness model of depression was later changed to the attributional reformulation of the learned helplessness theory of depression.Describe how the attributional reformulation improves upon the learned helplessness model,and outline what the theory purports.
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Chapter 6: Applying Social Psychology to Sports Teams
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Q1) Based on research by Eys,Patterson,Loughead,and Carron (2006),the text outlines four main principles of team goal setting.List these principles,and outline the stages.
Q2) A team member who claims,"This team doesn't try hard enough to win,and I'm not happy about it," would be discussing which form of cohesion?
A) attraction to group-task
B) group integration-social
C) attraction to group-social D) group integration-task
Q3) Anecdotal and research evidence suggests that teams low in cohesion perform better than teams high in cohesion.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The text discusses four main characteristics of cohesion.Name all four,and describe two in detail.
Q5) Examples of social factors that influence cohesion are group size,leadership style,and member roles.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Applying Social Psychology to the Media
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Q1) Agenda setting refers to the idea that the media can shape what issues we think about or what issues we think are important.
A)True
B)False
Q2) With respect to the media,framing refers to
A) the angle of a story, or how it is presented
B) the stories that immediately precede and follow a target story
C) things such as the font size and placement of a story, which make it more or less attractive to readers
D) ensuring that a story has a distinct beginning, middle, and end that promote a particular agenda
Q3) Which of the following scenarios would likely produce the highest voter turnout?
A) The incumbent runs a negative campaign highlighting the undesirable characteristics of the challenger.
B) The challenger runs a negative campaign highlighting the undesirable characteristics of the incumbent.
C) Both candidates run negative campaigns.
D) Neither candidate runs a negative campaign .
Q4) Identify five effects of long-term exposure to nonviolent pornography.
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Chapter 8: Applying Social Psychology to Health
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Q1) Research has examined how involved the parents of adolescent girls are in their daughters' education and the relationship between this involvement and the girls' use of contraceptives.This research suggests that the more involved the parents are,
A) the more likely the girls are to get pregnant, because they resent their parents' involvement
B) the less likely the girls are to use contraceptives, because of peer pressure to have unprotected sex
C) the less likely the girls are to discuss contraceptive use with their boyfriends
D) the more likely the girls are to use contraceptives
Q2) Cues to action are events or messages that act as triggers to get people to adopt healthy behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the fear-victimization paradox,the people who are most fearful are actually are more likely to be victimized.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Applying Social Psychology to Education
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Q1) Distinguish between bullying and cyberbullying,and list three negative effects of bullying.
Q2) Which of the following is one of the social psychological explanations for cyberbullying?
A) poor verbal skills
B) the minimization of negative consequences for the bully
C) heightened status from advertising the bullying act on social media
D) cognitive dissonance
Q3) Research reveals that students will be more intrinsically motivated and be more engaged in learning when the classroom environment has which of the following characteristics?
A) many external incentives and is not too controlling
B) many external incentives and learning is teacher-directed
C) few external incentives and learning is self-directed
D) few external incentives and learning is teacher-directed
Q4) Explain what is meant by peer-assisted learning,and describe two approaches of such learning.
Q5) Explain the premise of achievement goal theory.
Q6) Describe Festinger's social comparison theory.
Q7) Explain what is meant by the term self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Chapter 10: Applying Social Psychology to Organizations
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Q1) Research by Emrich,Brower,Feldman,and Garland (2001)has found that leaders who use more image-based rhetoric are regarded as ______.
A) more charismatic
B) more powerful
C) less timid
D) more independent
Q2) Which alternative best characterizes the degree to which normative and informational influence affect the decision processes of virtual groups?
A) Both normative and informational influence are less influential in the decision making of virtual groups.
B) Normative influence increases and informational influence decreases when groups make decisions in virtual environments.
C) Normative influence decreases and informational influence increases when groups make decisions in virtual environments.
D) The degree to which the two forms of influence affect decision making in virtual groups is likely affected by other variables, such as the degree of anonymity of participants and the virtuality of the medium.
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Chapter 11: Applying Social Psychology to the Criminal Justice System
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Q1) The chapter on applying social psychology to the criminal justice system described that rather than focusing exclusively on the personal characteristics of the individual offender,other environmental or situational factors may be at work.Describe two situational factors that may be considered determinants of criminal activity.
Q2) In their research on the socialization of antisocial behavior in teenagers,Dishion,Spracklen,Andrews,and Patterson (1996)
A) observed the interaction among groups of three to four boys as they played various games
B) found that the way the delinquent group showed approval of talk about antisocial acts was through laughter
C) found an association between demonstrations of rule-breaking behavior at ages 17 and 18 and criminal activity in adulthood
D) found an association between demonstrations of rule-breaking behavior from ages 3 to 18 and criminal activity in adulthood
Q3) What is meant by bystander effect? Explain the link between bystander effect and diffusion of responsibility.
Q4) Explain what is meant by the cross-race effect.
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Chapter 12: Applying Social Psychology to the Community
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Q1) One of the approaches in community psychology involves an ecological perspective.An ecological perspective entails examining
A) the effect of landscape on human functioning
B) the fit between people and their environments
C) how people are affected by their interaction with animals
D) how humans overcome challenges associated with natural environments
Q2) 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
Q3) Which of the following is true?
A) Activist research is not always participatory research.
B) Activist research is always participatory research.
C) Participatory research is always survey research.
D) Field research is always activist research.
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) Social design places an emphasis on the needs and requirements of people,as opposed to more technical and stylistic considerations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In his 1968 article in Science,Hardin was pessimistic about humans being able to avoid the tragedy of the commons,the complete collapse of the planet's resource system.Robert Gifford,the author of Chapter 13 ("Environment")concludes that the evidence from existing intervention research ______ Hardin's bleak outlook.
A) is, for the most part, consistent with B) is currently inconclusive regarding C) shows promise with respect to helping to counter D) clearly disputes the tenability of
Q3) According to the text,what is probably the most important goal of social design?
A) satisfy building users
B) change the behavior of building users
C) create settings that match occupants' needs and activities
D) enhance the building users' personal control
Q4) Explain what is meant by matching,and differentiate between alpha matching and beta matching.
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Chapter 14: Applying Social Psychology to Diversity
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Q1) The term sexism specifically refers to bias against women based on their sex.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ______ is to attitudes as ______ is to behavior.
A) Creativity; innovation
B) Discrimination; prejudice
C) Innovation; discrimination
D) Prejudice; discrimination
Q3) Realistic group conflict theory would suggest that reducing conflict between groups would be best achieved by
A) promoting honest discussion
B) changing the perception that one group has more of a desired resource than another
C) introducing common goals
D) ensuring greater contact among group members
Q4) When an issue is simple and insignificant,avoidance is the most effective way of managing conflict.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the theory of relative deprivation.
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Chapter 15: Applying Social Psychology to Personal Relationships
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Q1) Identify three factors that influence relationship formation and satisfaction.
Q2) In helping to encourage readers to overcome fear of rejection and to convey interest in an attractive person,the authors of Chapter 15 ("Personal Relationships")reviewed the study by Vorauer and Ratner (1996).In that study,participants had to imagine meeting an attractive person and having the interaction end with neither of them communicating interest in seeing the other again.Participants explained the failure to communicate interest by blaming
A) both their own inaction and the other person's inaction on a lack of interest
B) both their own inaction and the other person's inaction on a fear of rejection
C) their own inaction on a lack of interest and the other person's inaction on a fear of rejection
D) their own inaction on a fear of rejection and the other person's inaction on a lack of interest
Q3) Proximity and familiarity are two key social psychological concepts related to attraction.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain what is meant by infantile separation distress.
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Chapter 16: Applying Social Psychology to the Classroom
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT true regarding Elliot and Church's (2003)study of self-handicapping?
A) Self-handicapping was positively correlated with fear of failure.
B) Self-handicapping was negatively correlated with need for achievement.
C) Students who scored higher on self-handicapping tended to be more afraid of failing, but they had lower drive for accomplishment.
D) Self-handicapping was associated with lower exam scores but higher GPAs.
Q2) According to the principle of ______,we tend to classify other people into groups on the basis of certain social characteristics.
A) social learning
B) social categorization
C) self-handicapping
D) self-serving bias
Q3) The major reason that people self-handicap seems to be to
A) motivate themselves to work harder
B) project a competent image to others
C) be able to assign the responsibility for failure to internal causes
D) protect their self-images
Q4) Identify three types of errors that result from self-perception.
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Chapter 17: Applying Social Psychology to the Good Life: Balancing Optimism and Pessimism
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Q1) Which is NOT one of the four broad themes that Hart and Sasso (2011)identify as defining the subject matter of positive psychology?
A) goodwill and altruistic concern
B) subjective happiness and life satisfaction
C) developmental processes of self-actualization and personal growth
D) resilience and positive coping under adverse conditions
Q2) Which of the following is NOT true about what Krueger and Funder (2004)noted about social psychology research?
A) The majority of the most seminal (most important) studies in social psychology focus on positive phenomena.
B) Social psychological research is likely to lead us to believe that the power of the situation typically leads people to engage in negative, less-than-ideal behavior.
C) Some of the most seminal (most important) studies in social psychology focus on negative phenomena.
D) The seemingly irrational behavior often elicited in social psychological research settings, may, over the long-term, produce adaptive and effective social behavior.
Q3) Differentiate between problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping.
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