Focuses on individual’s own needs or motives…
ways in which specific situations and social relationships can create and arouse needs and motives.
What are motivational theories?
100
Two types of research.
What are correlational and experimental?
100
Warm/Cold are examples of what kind of traits?
What are central traits?
100
We are more likely to attribute a person’s behavior to their personality traits than the situation they’re in.
What is fundamental
attribution error?
100
The fact that people tend to pay
more attention to things that
stand out rather than things
in the background
What is the figure-ground principle?
200
Focuses on individual’s own needs or motives…
ways in which specific situations and social relationships can create and arouse needs and motives.
What are learning theories?
200
In experimental research, the two
types of samples
What are random and representative?
200
One type of information we use in judging a person.
What are roles, physical cues, or salience?
200
The area of psychology concerned
with when and how people
ask “why” questions?
What is Attribution theory?
200
When a perceiver’s false
expectations about another
person cause that person to
act the way the perceiver
thinks they will.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
300
A person’s behavior depends on the way
he/she perceives social situation.
What are cognitive theories?
300
A problem in correlational research
when both variables could be the
cause of each other.
What is the reverse-causality problem?
300
Having an idea in mind about what a college course will be like is an example of a….
What is a schema?
300
This is weighted more heavily when
making judgements.
What is negative information?
300
When shown pictures of an attractive person and then a less attractive person, the reason people rate the less attractive person unfavorably is due to the idea of...
What is a contrast effect?
400
Main dfference between cognitive and
learning theories.
What is Cognitive theories focus on current
perceptions.
400
In experimental research, the factor controlled by researcher.
What is the independent variable?
400
Using the context in which behavior occurs to infer whether
the behavior is because of the situation or if
that is just what the person is really like
What is Correspondence Inference Theory?
400
When we we judge the likelihood of an event based on how well it seems to match, or represent, a typical member of a category
What is the representative hueristic?
400
When shown pictures of an attractive person and a less attractive person at the same time, the reason people rate the less attractive person favorably is due to...
What is the assimilation effect?
500
Individualism and Collectivism have to do with which type of social psychology theory?
What is sociocultural theory?
500
If the experimenter nods and smiles at their subject, this could be an example of....
What is experimenter bias?
500
In order for something to be
the cause of a behavior, it must
be present when the behavior
occurs and absent when it
does not.
What is Covariation Theory?
500
Estimating frequency by the ease with which examples come to mind.
What is the
availability hueristic?
500
The reason you might focus on the fact that your boss is flexible and understanding, but not on how attractive he or she is.