Behavior Change Interventions
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Course Introduction
Behavior Change Interventions explores the theories, principles, and practical applications of strategies designed to influence health-related and other behaviors at the individual, community, and organizational levels. The course examines evidence-based frameworks such as the Health Belief Model, Theory of Planned Behavior, and Social Cognitive Theory, focusing on how these can be used to design, implement, and evaluate interventions. Students will learn how to assess target populations, develop intervention materials, drive engagement, and adapt interventions for diverse contexts. The course also addresses challenges in implementation, ethical considerations, and methods for measuring intervention effectiveness, preparing students to contribute meaningfully to public health, community programming, and related fields.
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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) According to Kenrick and Funder (1988),personal characteristics are thought to exert a greater effect on behavior in which of the following situations?
A) "weak" situations
B) "strong" situations
C) "moderate" situations
D) "unfamiliar" situations
Answer: A
Q2) The fundamental attribution error refers to the tendency for people to account for the behavior of others by
A) de-emphasizing the role of both dispositional and situational determinants
B) emphasizing the role of both dispositional and situational determinants
C) de-emphasizing the role of dispositional determinants and emphasizing the role of situational determinants
D) emphasizing the role of dispositional determinants and de-emphasizing the role of situational determinants
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Social Psychological Theory
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Q1) In the theory of reasoned action and theory of planned behavior,behavioral intention refers to
A) what a person thinks will be the likely outcome of a behavior
B) a person's attitude toward a certain behavior and subjective norms
C) whether or not someone intends to engage in a certain behavior
D) attitude strength
Answer: C
Q2) Salespeople who employ the low-ball technique are taking advantage of the implications of ______.
A) postdecisional dissonance
B) insufficient justification
C) effort justification
D) bad taste
Answer: A
Q3) The first step of the scientific process is ______.
A) creating a hypothesis
B) developing a theory
C) observation
D) designing a research study
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Research Methods in Applied Social Psychology
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Q1) The use of ______ groups is a common feature of quasi-experiments.
A) pre-assigned
B) equivalent
C) correlational
D) extraneous
Answer: A
Q2) Which research design involves manipulation of variables?
A) descriptive
B) correlational
C) quasi-experimental
D) surveys
Answer: C
Q3) Gathering data from a 50-year-old census report is an example of what category of observation,as reported in the text?
A) historical
B) retrospective
C) indirect
D) external
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Intervention and Evaluation
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Q1) Building on the idea that intentional exposure to a weak strain of a virus can protect people from the virus,McAlister,Perry,and Maccoby (1980)applied ______ to help students to ______.
A) inoculation theory; resist social pressures to smoke
B) inoculation theory; improve their in-class conduct
C) cognitive dissonance theory; resist social pressures to smoke
D) cognitive dissonance theory; improve their in-class conduct
Q2) Research by de Visser and colleagues (2015)on reducing alcohol consumption demonstrated that when it comes to intervention and evaluation,qualitative research methods
A) are of no value
B) must be mixed with quantitative research methods to be useful
C) can provide insights not available through quantitative methods
D) are inappropriate because they have nothing to do with the applied goals of intervention or evaluation
Q3) Name the two broad types of interventions,and distinguish between them.
Q4) Name and describe the two main types of program evaluation.
Q5) All interventions have to operate within constraints.Describe three main constraints faced by program developers.
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Chapter 5: Applying Social Psychology to Clinical and Counseling Psychology
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Q1) 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
Q2) Qualitative research is an ideal method to understand the experience of psychological illness as it privileges the meanings that individuals or groups ascribe to a social or human problem.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Based on the material discussed in Chapter 5 ("Clinical and Counseling"),which of the following would be most likely to help someone suffering from social anxiety overcome his or her social fears?
A) talking about his or her problems with a trained professional
B) social skills training
C) visualizing being calm in social situations
D) using a punching bag
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Chapter 6: Applying Social Psychology to Sports Teams
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Q1) Two important principles of team goal setting are (1)selecting the team goals and (2)evaluating,providing feedback,and reevaluating the team goals for effectiveness.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is synonymous with collective efficacy?
A) team success
B) team confidence
C) team winning streak
D) team cohesion
Q3) Effective communication among teams is often understood within the framework of social exchange theory.Describe this theory,and list two key characteristics in a social exchange interaction.
Q4) The authors of Chapter 6 ("Sports")suggest that the difficulties encountered by the rowing team profiled in the opening vignette were due primarily to issues related to
A) role clarity
B) role performance
C) role ambiguity
D) role acceptance
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Chapter 7: Applying Social Psychology to the Media
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Q1) 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
Q2) What conclusion can we legitimately draw from research on the relationship between watching TV violence and people's perception of how hostile the world is?
A) Perceptions of a hostile world lead people to stay indoors and watch more TV, including violent programs.
B) Watching TV violence leads people to conclude that the world is more hostile.
C) Watching TV violence and perceptions of hostility are not causally related.
D) Perceptions of hostility and watching TV violence are both influenced by a third variable.
Q3) In explaining the effects that media violence has on individuals,researchers have coined what is called cultivation theory.What is cultivation theory?
Q4) The text describes two main types of frames.Describe both in detail.
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Chapter 8: Applying Social Psychology to Health
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Q1) ______ encompasses abilities such as reading and understanding health information,communicating effectively with health care professionals,and being able to follow medical instructions.
A) Health literacy
B) Critical health avoidance
C) Health promotion
D) Health prevention
Q2) Selfefficacy refers to our perception of whether or not we actually have the skills or resources to carry out a behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Health psychology appeared in the ______ and took hold in the ______.
A) 1820s; 1870s
B) 1890s; 1970s
C) 1970s; 1980s
D) 1900s; 2000s
Q4) Define the term social support,and describe two forms of support cited in the text.
Q5) Describe the three types of health prevention outlined in the health chapter.
Q6) Differentiate between health promotion and health prevention.
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Chapter 9: Applying Social Psychology to Education
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Q1) As outlined in the text,integrated regulation occurs when individuals integrate both internal and external information into a coherent set of values,goals,and priorities,and these become a part of the self.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to ______ theory,we infer our own attitudes and beliefs based on observing our own actions.
A) self-perception
B) self-handicapping
C) social comparison
D) social learning
Q3) With respect to its effect on word identification and reading comprehension performance among students with reading disabilities,what effect has peer tutoring demonstrated compared with traditional remedial reading exercises?
A) Peer tutoring is less effective because it is less structured.
B) Peer tutoring is more effective because it allows for practice and feedback.
C) Peer tutoring is about as effective as the traditional exercises.
D) The research is inconclusive.
Q4) Describe Festinger's social comparison theory.
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Chapter 10: Applying Social Psychology to Organizations
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a technique that leaders use to be persuasive?
A) rhetorical devices
B) amplify values
C) raising the volume of their voice
D) loss language
Q2) Perceptual biases refer to errors that distort the perception process and thus lead to faulty judgments.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is NOT true with regard to the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance?
A) There is likely a bidirectional causal relationship between job satisfaction and performance.
B) Job satisfaction is more strongly related to job performance for less conscientious employees than for conscientious employees.
C) The causal effects between job satisfaction and performance may be mediated by other variables such as positive affect.
D) There is no correlation between job satisfaction and job performance.
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Chapter 11: Applying Social Psychology to the Criminal Justice System
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Q1) A therapeutic community can be distinguished from other therapeutic approaches by its emphasis on ______ as the primary vehicle for promoting social and psychological change.
A) social psychological factors
B) the community
C) the transition to the home environment
D) the inmate-therapist relationship
Q2) Which of the following is NOT true?
A) In Canada and the United States, criminal trials are conducted according to the adversarial model of the legal system.
B) In Canada and the United States, juries can be composed of either six or 12 members.
C) In Williams v. Florida (1970), the United States Supreme Court ruled that six- and 12-person juries are functionally equivalent.
D) The results of Asch's (1951) early conformity research suggested that six- and 12-person juries are not functionally equivalent.
Q3) What is meant by bystander effect? Explain the link between bystander effect and diffusion of responsibility.
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Chapter 12: Applying Social Psychology to the Community
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Q1) Community psychology focuses on the relationship between individuals and communities by integrating research and action.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Explain what is meant by the term intersectionality.
Q3) Stimulus overload refers to a condition in which the nervous system becomes overwhelmed to the point that one cannot simultaneously respond to everything in the environment.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Research on the effect of participating in online groups,such as support groups and health communities,suggests that overall,such groups
A) have little effect on participants
B) are only beneficial for people from disadvantaged groups
C) have positive effects on participants
D) are only effective if participants are official members of the group
Q5) 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) In Schultz's 1998 intervention research on getting people to recycle,a main part of the procedure involved communicating with residents of homes using green door hangers.Participants in which experimental condition showed an increase in recycling relative to the baseline?
A) information
B) group feedback
C) plea
D) observers
Q2) The members of your school's student union want to hold a dance.You are in favor of the dance but are reluctant to help plan it because you don't think enough students will get involved and believe the event will be a failure.What type of social dilemma do you face?
A) public goods problem
B) resource contingency trap
C) social trap
D) resource dilemma
Q3) Identify two ways in which environmental psychologists work to improve the physical environment,and describe how they are helpful.
Q4) Distinguish between technical design and social design.
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Chapter 14: Applying Social Psychology to Diversity
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Q1) During a business meeting,Peter tells Mary that she looks good in the suit she is wearing.According to Glick and Fiske (1996)this could be interpreted as ______.
A) hostile sexism
B) benevolent sexism
C) ambivalent sexism
D) racist sexism
Q2) Which is true?
A) Axioms refer to ideas that individuals, as a group, think are unclear.
B) Axioms are explicit cultural statements of how the world operates that are taught to others in a society.
C) Axioms are implicit beliefs about how the world works and concern beliefs about oneself, the social and physical environment, or the spiritual world.
D) Axioms are specific beliefs about one's position in this world.
Q3) Conflict may occur when people or groups have ______ interests.
A) competitive
B) uncooperative
C) similar
D) constructive
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Chapter 15: Applying Social Psychology to Personal Relationships
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Q1) Identify three attachment styles associated with infants.
Q2) Identify and describe two factors that influence attraction.
Q3) Identify the four patterns of adult attachment identified in the text,and describe characteristics of each.
Q4) The most likely explanation for the fact that Andrew King's two best friends in the second grade are Brandon Johnson and Cory LaFlair resides in the ______.
A) proximity effect
B) familiarity effect
C) perception that they are similar to him
D) teacher expectancy effect
Q5) As reported in Chapter 15 ("Personal Relationships"),one of the results of the T-shirt study by Gross (1983)was that the printed material on the T-shirts seemed to undermine the selection influence of ______.
A) physical attractiveness
B) attachment styles
C) familiarity
D) personal traits
Q6) Explain the role of the primacy effect in physical attractiveness.
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Q7) Explain the physical attractiveness stereotype.
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Chapter 16: Applying Social Psychology to the Classroom
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Q1) Identify three types of errors that result from self-perception.
Q2) Which is NOT true of Coren's (1993)study of attributions and motivations for lecturing on a specific topic?
A) Coren's research supports the notion that students do not believe that faculty members believe everything they teach.
B) Coren found that students made negative attributions about professors who lectured that genetic factors could explain some racial differences in IQ scores.
C) Coren found that sex differences could be due to genetic factors.
D) Coren's research supports the notion that students think that faculty members believe everything they teach.
Q3) Which statement is true of the fundamental attribution error?
A) People believe that they are less prone to making the fundamental error than other people.
B) People believe that they are more prone to making the fundamental error than other people.
C) Our peers tend to take situational factors into account more than we do.
D) We tend to take environmental factors into account more than our peers do.
Q4) Explain what is meant by cognitive errors,and list two types.
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Chapter 17: Applying Social Psychology to the Good Life: Balancing Optimism and Pessimism
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Q1) Describe the learned optimism theory by Seligman (2011).
Q2) Barry becomes very upset when the high school nurse informs him that his body mass index shows that he borders on being obese.Barry explains to the nurse that the reason for being overweight is that he has grown up in a home in which meals routinely consist of very large portions of high calorie foods.Barry's explanation entails which set of attributions?
A) internal, stable, global
B) internal, unstable, specific
C) external, unstable, global
D) external, stable, specific
Q3) The authors of Chapter 17 ("Applying Social Psychology to the Good Life")use the term ______ to pertain to the study of the relevance of social psychology to understanding positive well-being.
A) positive psychology
B) practical social psychology
C) remedial social psychology
D) positive social psychology
Q4) Describe,in detail,what is meant by balance as tempered view and balance as contextual sensitivity.
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