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james0929 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Consider a study in which researchers created groups of relatively prejudiced and unprejudiced high school students and asked them to respond to issues concerning racial attitudes, both before and after discussion of these issues. Following the group discussions, you would expect that

a. both groups would become more prejudiced.
b. both groups would become less prejudiced.
c. those who were relatively unprejudiced would become less prejudiced and those who were relativelyprejudice d would become more prejudiced.
d. those who were relatively unprejudiced would become more prejudiced and those who were relativelyprejudice d would become less prejudiced.

Question 2

One major difference between research in social psychology and research in other fields such as chemistry is that

a. social psychologists are less likely to rely on empirical observation to draw conclusions.
b. many people have intuitive opinions about the questions that social psychologists study empirically.
c. in social psychology, researchers are less concerned with theories and more concerned with data.
d. social psychology is less of a science than many other fields.