CFT 150 Week 1 Materials UNLV – Study Guide, Notes & Practice Questions
What kind of experiment was Schachter's experiment an example of? - correct answer
✔✔Hypothesis: will people with higher levels of anxiety want more social affiliation?
IV: participants' anxiety levels
DV: preference to affiliate with others
Methods: subjects told they would be in a study on the physiological effects of electric shock
and would receive a series of shocks
Control group: participants told that the shocks would be mild and painless (low anxiety)
Experimental group: participants were told the shocks would be painful (high anxiety)
Results: increased anxiety led to increased affiliation by nearly 2 fold
What kind of experiment was Matsumoto's and Willingham's experiment an example of? -
correct answer ✔✔Hypothesis: whether facial expressions that go with spontaneous emotions
are innate
IV: blind vs sighted athletes
DV: facial expressions after winning or losing the competition
Correlational study/naturalistic observation (olympic athletes)
, Results: facial expressions of sighted and blind athletes are indistinguishable
What kind of experiment was Henriks son et al's study an example of? - correct answer
✔✔Hypothesis: Are there some characteristics that are similar between people who take their
own lives in Finland?
Variety of case studies
Mental illness is a contributing factor
What kind of experiment was Schmitt's experiment an example of? - correct answer
✔✔Hypothesis: are there gender differences in desire for sexual variety between various
cultures?
survey methodology example
What are the problems with self-help books? - correct answer ✔✔dominated by psychobabble
place emphasis on sales rather than scientific soundness
don't provide explicit directions about how to change your behavior (too broad)
encourage a remarkably self-centered, narcissistic approach to life
What is an experiment? - correct answer ✔✔If two groups are alike except for the variation
created by the manipulation of the independent variable, then any differences between the two
groups dependent variable must be due to this manipulation
What kind of experiment was Schachter's experiment an example of? - correct answer
✔✔Hypothesis: will people with higher levels of anxiety want more social affiliation?
IV: participants' anxiety levels
DV: preference to affiliate with others
Methods: subjects told they would be in a study on the physiological effects of electric shock
and would receive a series of shocks
Control group: participants told that the shocks would be mild and painless (low anxiety)
Experimental group: participants were told the shocks would be painful (high anxiety)
Results: increased anxiety led to increased affiliation by nearly 2 fold
What kind of experiment was Matsumoto's and Willingham's experiment an example of? -
correct answer ✔✔Hypothesis: whether facial expressions that go with spontaneous emotions
are innate
IV: blind vs sighted athletes
DV: facial expressions after winning or losing the competition
Correlational study/naturalistic observation (olympic athletes)
, Results: facial expressions of sighted and blind athletes are indistinguishable
What kind of experiment was Henriks son et al's study an example of? - correct answer
✔✔Hypothesis: Are there some characteristics that are similar between people who take their
own lives in Finland?
Variety of case studies
Mental illness is a contributing factor
What kind of experiment was Schmitt's experiment an example of? - correct answer
✔✔Hypothesis: are there gender differences in desire for sexual variety between various
cultures?
survey methodology example
What are the problems with self-help books? - correct answer ✔✔dominated by psychobabble
place emphasis on sales rather than scientific soundness
don't provide explicit directions about how to change your behavior (too broad)
encourage a remarkably self-centered, narcissistic approach to life
What is an experiment? - correct answer ✔✔If two groups are alike except for the variation
created by the manipulation of the independent variable, then any differences between the two
groups dependent variable must be due to this manipulation
