The tendency for people to be overconfident about whether they could have predicted a given outcome.
(two words)
What is HINDSIGHT BIAS (the I-knew-it-all-along effect)
100
In experimental research, an indication that the results of a measure can be consistently repeated.
What is RELIABILITY
100
The type of culture in which the an individual's self-construal is one which is fundamentally connected to other people.
What is COLLECTIVISTIC (Interdependent) Culture
100
A stress hormone that can have many adverse effects on the body.
What is CORTISOL
100
In research, an indication that an assessment device actually measures what it claims to measure.
What is VALIDITY
200
The common tendency for people to attribute the behaviors of others to dispositional factors, rather than taking situational factors into account.
(three words)
What is the FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR
200
The type of research in which an investigator gathers descriptive data but tries not to perturb the environment.
What is OBSERVATIONAL research
200
The tendency to engage in self-defeating behavior in order to have an excuse ready should one perform poorly or fail.
What is SELF-HANDICAPPING
200
The tendency to think about some stressful event repeatedly, which has been shown to have a negative impact on health outcomes and recovery from illness.
What is RUMINATION
200
A critical component of ALL true experiments in which participants are divided into experimental and control conditions.
(two words)
What is RANDOM ASSIGNMENT
300
The assumption that biology is destiny, or in other words, that the way things ARE is the way they SHOULD be.
(two words)
What is the NATURALISTIC FALLACY
300
The type of experiment with the highest level of external validity.
What is a FIELD experiment/study
300
The desire to maintain, increase, or protect positive views of the self.
What is SELF-ENHANCEMENT
300
A situational factor that can act as a buffer against stress and related negative outcomes, which has been found to be correlated with overall positive health.
(two words)
What is SOCIAL SUPPORT
300
In the reading by Heine, Kitayama, et al. (2001), the type of participants (ethnic background) that persisted more after FAILURE, rather than success.
What are JAPANESE participants
400
A culture in which people tend to think of themselves as distinct social entities, having attributes that exist in the absence of any connection to others.
What is INDIVIDUALISTIC (Independent) Culture
400
In experimental research, confidence that only the manipulated variable could have produced the results.
(two words)
What is INTERNAL VALIDITY
400
A theory of the self that holds that people are motivated to view themselves in a favorable light and that they do so through reflection and social comparison.
(three words)
What is the SELF-EVALUATION MAINTENANCE (SEM) Model
400
A coping technique to deal with rumination, in which an individual focuses on his or her feelings from the perspective of a detached observer.
What is SELF-DISTANCING
400
The INDEPENDENT variable in Darley & Batson's (1973) "Good Samaritan" study which determined whether or not seminary students would act altruistically to help another in need.
What is being made to HURRY from one building to another, or not
500
The ability to recognize that other people have beliefs and desires.
(three words)
What is THEORY OF MIND
500
In psychological research, the p-value that indicates to a researcher that the results of the experiment only have a 1% probability of being due to chance (i.e., statistical significance).
What is p = .01
500
According to Self-Discrepancy Theory, discrepancies between the actual and ___ self give rise to agitation-related emotions.
What is OUGHT
500
The system (axis) in the brain which reacts to stressful events.
(three words)
What is the HYPOTHALAMIC PITUITARY ADRENAL (HPA) Axis
500
**BONUS Question- You will not receive any point deductions for an incorrect answer!! :)
What is the concentration of my Graduate program at NYU?
(TWO areas)