Two professors disagree about whether overall amount of time spent studying or student’s type of studying will improve their learning the most. They decide to each encourage their classrooms to do either more hours of studying or different types of studying. These professors both explain to their students which study method they are encouraging and tell them they’ll be collecting surveys throughout the semester to test this hypothesis. The professor who thinks type of studying matters the most also changes how her class is organized. She inadvertently devotes more attention and effort into her class and challenges her students to do more to further their own learning. Which of the following problems does this pose?

Two professors disagree about whether overall amount of time spent studying or student’s type of studying will improve their learning the most. They decide to each encourage their classrooms to do either more hours of studying or different types of studying. These professors both explain to their students which study method they are encouraging and tell them they’ll be collecting surveys throughout the semester to test this hypothesis. The professor who thinks type of studying matters the most also changes how her class is organized. She inadvertently devotes more attention and effort into her class and challenges her students to do more to further their own learning. Which of the following problems does this pose?

Two professors disagree about whether overall amount of time spent studying or student’s type of studying will improve their learning the most. They decide to each encourage their classrooms to do either more hours of studying or different types of studying. These professors both explain to their students which study method they are encouraging and tell them they’ll be collecting surveys throughout the semester to test this hypothesis. What potential problem could this cause?

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. Much research has been conducted on the so-called shooter task or shooter paradigm. (a) Describe the shooter task. (1 pt) (b) Describe the two dependent variables they test in these studies (1 pt). (c) What did they find when they compared regular participants to police officers on this task (for both of the dependent variables)? (2 pts)

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. (a) According to Peter Glick and Susan Fiske (2001), sexism can take two forms: benevolent and hostile sexism. Define both types of sexism. (2 pts) (b) List 2 ways that each type negatively impacts women or what negative effects are correlated with having high scores in each (2 pts)

Gabriela’s softball team is planning to steal their main competitor’s mascot. Gabriela will conform for many reasons EXCEPT [blank1]. First-year college students may be more susceptible than seniors to informational social influence because [blank2]. Imagine that you are attending a new high school and would like to make friends. On the first day of school, you observe that all of the students in your homeroom are crumpling paper into balls and throwing them on the floor. You begin to do the same. You conformed to the group’s behavior due to [blank3]. Teenagers are often more susceptible to influence attempts from peers than from their parents. This is because peers become more important to teenagers than their parents are. This example represents the influence of Bibb Latané’s (1981) concept of [blank4] on normative conformity.

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. (a) Describe an example of a microaggression. (1 pt) (b) Describe a classic emotion-based finding from dehumanization research. (1 pt) (c) Describe a newer, explicit way of measuring dehumanization. (1 pt) (d) What are 2 major consequences of dehumanization? (1 pt)

The primary advantage of experimental research over correlational research is that experiments:

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. Thinking about our recent debate on group diversity and its relationship to decision-making, (a) Describe two reasons why we may want the government to be required to make all their decision-making groups demographically diverse. (2 pts) (b) Describe two reasons why we may NOT want the government to be required to make all their decision-making groups demographically diverse. (2 pts) (c) According to researchers in business, what is the difference between surface and deep diversity? (2 pts) (d) What are two specific types of tasks that are most improved by having diverse team members? (2 pts)

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. (a) According to the research we discussed on  the overlap between political psychology and research on income inequality, describe how liberals and conservatives typically feel about income inequality. (2 pts) (b) Which group are more likely to have the very strong attitudes called moral mandates?  (1 pt) liberals conservatives both liberals and conservatives neither liberals nor conservatives (c) Over what period of time did research show citizens shifted their attitudes on an issue to align with their politicians’ (i.e., from the same party) views? (1 pt) One Month Six Months Three Years Ten Years