The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another
Social Psychology
100
Studies that can establish cause/effect
experimental
100
Active self-presentation of a person aiming to enhance his image in the eyes of others
impression management
100
The process of developing initial views of others
impression formation
100
Conducted the Stanford Prison Study
Zimbardo
200
The influence that others have on our beliefs, feelings, and behavior
Social influence
200
A testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events is
hypothesis
200
because there is one good thing about a person, this means that everything about them is good.
Halo effect
200
In his research on primacy, Asch found that participants rated the person ________ when the positive words were listed first.
more positively
200
Did an experiment on warm/cold traits and found that some traits have more of an impact on forming an impression
Asch
300
Overestimate our power of prediction once we know the outcome of the event.
Hindsight Bias
300
Studies the naturally occurring relationships among variables
Correlational Research
300
We tend to think that probability is increased because vivid examples easily come to mind.
Availability Heuristic
300
According to ___, primacy of information effects impression formation because first items create an initial impression that is used to interpret later information.
Interpretive Set
300
Found that race stereotypes can lead people to claim to see
a weapon where there is none
Payne
400
Allows us to observe events that would be too risky, dangerous or unethical to create
naturalistic observation
400
when an experimental situation is realistic and has absorbed its participants it is said to have ________
experimenter realism
400
simple rules that reduce mental effort and allow us to make decisions more quickly
Heuristics
400
What heuristic is used to estimate the likelihood of an event based on how well it fits with your expectations of a model for that event?
representative heuristic
400
Put 2 groups of 12 boys in bunks to live together and saw that the boys became very close to each other and rivals with the other group.
Sherif
500
When undergoing initiation to gain membership, people who go though a sever initiation to join a group like that group ______ then those who go through a mild initiation or none at all.
more
500
An experimenter manipulates what variable?
Independent
500
According to ___, primacy of information effects impression formation because later items receive less attention so it has less impact on judgement.
Attention Decrement
500
having expectations about behavior and then acting in some way, usually unknowingly, to carry out that behavior
self-fulfilling prophecy
500
created circumstances in which participants made judgments under conditions in which the physical reality was absolutely clear--but the rest of a group reported that they saw that reality differently