Psychological and Other Perspectives on Public Opinion
100
It is a variable that is assumed to depend or be caused by another variable
What is a dependent variable?
100
It is the name of the board on the High Point campus charged with judging whether research studies involving people are ethical or not. It functions as a "human subjects advocates" within the research context
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
100
Properly conducted lab experiments are generally more likely to provide this type of validity rather than external validity.
What is internal validity?
100
It is the type of representation (in which the representative follows as closely as possible the wishes of his or her constituents) that we associated with James Madison.
What is delegate (representation)?
100
The types are: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience.
What are the Big Five Personality types?
200
It is the type of logic of inquiry in which theory is derived from specific observations.
What is inductive?
200
It is the report that established ethical guidelines for human subjects research,including the key principles of respect for persons (autonomy), beneficence, and justice
What is the Belmont Report?
200
It is a group in an experimental study that does not receive the stimulus or treatment given to at least one other group.
What is a control group?
200
It is a random sample that can be used to generalize about a population from which it is drawn. A random digit dial poll (in which numbers have an equal likelihood of bring chosen) is an example of this. An opt-in, online survey is not an example of this.
What is a probability sample?
200
They socially shared beliefs about particular groups that are accepted by many people (even though they may not apply to all the people in those groups and they may be negative).
What are stereotypes?
300
They are broad worldviews or general frameworks through which we seek to understand the social world.
What are paradigms?
300
It is the study we discussed in which students were assigned roles of prisoners and guards in order to see how those roles shaped their behavior.
What is the Stanford (Zimbardo) Prison Study?
300
It is the type of experiment we said involve an intervention in the "real world" to study effects. Such randomized experiments require us to define a population and and outcome variable as well as provide a treatment for one or more groups of randomly selected participants.
What is a field experiment?
300
This Italian political official and adviser thought that people were so obsessed with their immediate desires and comforts that they could not govern themselves. But he knew that public opinion could be a very powerful force.
Who was Niccolo Machiavelli?
300
If descriptive norms are about what people commonly do (if we look around and observe), then this is what you call norms about what people think OUGHT to be done in social situations.
What are injunctive norms?
400
It is a theory in international relations theory/research that says that democratic governments are less likely to go to war with other democracies than to go to war with non-democracies.
What is democratic peace theory?
400
It is the code established as the result of sometimes deadly experiments on prisoners during World War II.
What is the Nuremberg Code?
400
This means a longitudinal study in which data is collected from precisely the same set of people (not just same population) at several points in time.
What is a panel study?
400
Declines in the number of people with landline telephones presented this type of problem for public opinion pollsters. Calling both cell phones and landlines can help address this problem.
What is a coverage problem?
400
It is the kind of conditioning that Pavlov's dog had. Pavlov had a dog that salivated when he rang a bell because the dog associated the bell with being served food. The dog had been trained to do this.
What is classical conditioning?
500
It is an approach to theory construction (logic of inquiry) that begins with a general theory, derives hypotheses from it and then tests them.
What is deductive?
500
They are the three levels at which research projects might be reviewed by an IRB
What are exempt, expedited, and full board review?
500
This experiment involved a group of people cooperating with the research group posing as other participants in the study to convince a real participant to conform to their incorrect answers about a series of lines. (It was an experiment about conformity.)
What is the Asch experiment?
500
The Literary Digest Poll (which used snail mail to lists of people all over the United States) failed to predict the winner of the 1936 presidential election. (It was FDR.) But this pollster predicted it correctly.
Who is George Gallup (of the Gallup Poll)??
500
It is the Wisconsin College that each year puts our a First Year Mindset List.