In 1967 social psychologist Stanley Milgram performed an experiment using the regular mail, and sociologist Duncan Watts replicated it using e-mail in 2003 . Participants were given a message and the name, address, and occupation of the person who should receive it. The participant could only send the message to a first-name acquaintance, who would send it to a first-name acquaintance and so on
until it reached the "target person" in another country. Milgram and Watts both found that the average number of intermediaries before the letter or e-mail reached its intended destination was
a. six.
b. 10.
c. 15.
d. 22.
A
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a. an item characteristic curve. b. a discrimination index. c. a test characteristic curve. d. the optimum difficulty.
A social psychologist is conducting a study to see the effects of social media interaction on an individual's mood. Which important question of social psychology does this study seek to explore?
A. Are we shaped more by biological factors of environmental factors? B. Is personality or environment more influential? C. Are people basically good or basically evil? D. How do media outlets shape our thoughts and behaviors?
According to Leon Festinger, which of the following fills needs for social comparison?
a. group membership b. social conformity c. social power d. prejudice
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b. they travel at too slow a speed. c. they are too abundant at the earth's surface to be useful in vision. d. long wavelengths penetrate objects instead of being reflected from them.