Invitation to Social Psychology
Methods in Social Psychology
The Social Self
Social Cognition
Potpourrii
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This is the definition of social psychology
What is the scientific study of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations!
100
Predicting an answer before finding out the correct answer, you avoid this
What is hindsight bias
100
These four agents are considered primary socializing agents:
What is family, peers, mass media, and school
100
This is why we study social cognitions (3 reasons)
What are: predictions for future events--to understand social judgments and how they influence behaviors --- and because social judgments are often wrong
100
This is the type of comparison used when we try to boost our self esteem by making us feel better. Example, choosing to run with a partner who is slightly slower than you
What is downward social comparison
200
This is the explanation that Philip Zimbardo gave Jon Stewart in the video we watched in class explaining the abuses that were taking place at the time in Afghanistan...
What is the Lucifer Effect. Also accept, negative influences of groups and authority figures.
200
These are five methods to use in social psychology
What are: observational research, archival research, surveys, experimental research, and correlational research
200
This psychologist who is also the author of Principles of Psychology divided social self into three types. These types are
What is individual, relational, and collective selves
200
This is one reason that first hand information is often misleading
What is ... our personal experiences may be unrepresentative (also accept pluralistic ignorance)
200
This is also called, an idea that maintains self esteem is an internal, subjective index or a marker of the extent to which a person is included on looked upon favorably by others
What is sociometer hypothesis
300
This is the definition of Fundamental Attribution Error
What is....our failure to recognize the importance of a situational influence on behavior, and over emphasize dispositional tratis
300
This is the difference between a hypothesis and theory
What is....the hypothesis is a prediction of what will happen, and your theory is related ideas that help to describe the world (or your hypothesis) in some way.
300
This form of self understanding comes from the Greek term "Know Thyself"
What is Introspection
300
This is how second hand information can be misleading?
What is -- Create bias because they want to foster specific ideas (ideological distortion) Bad News Bias Asymmetries between positive and negative information
300
This type of culture places little or no value on self esteem
What is interdependent (will also accept collectivistic)
400
This is how social psychologists understand stereotypes...
What is ...schemas that we have about people. We judge people based on the schemas we have about different contexts.
400
If a researcher wants to analyze social behaviors as documented in past records, they will be using this type of research method
What is archival research
400
This is how evolution may have contributed to gender differences
What is ...independent views of self may advantage males in acts like social competition in hunting, while interdependent views of self may advantage females in acts related to maintaining social bonds and care giving.
400
This is why order effects like primacy and recency effect influence our judgements
What is ...its easier to pay attention to the first and last things or we may not remember what was not consistent with our first expectations.
400
These are benefits of positive self illusions
What is reducing negative moods fosters social bonds by making people more outgoing promotes goal persistence
500
This man is the father of social psychology
Who is...Kurt Lewin
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If I say that in your experimental research, you have confidence that only the manipulated variable could have produced your study's results, you have this...
What is internal validity
500
This theory says that we define our selves in terms of multiple domains that are distinct from one another.
What is self complexity theory
500
Provide an example of Spin Framing
What is (Hostess will judge if the example is correct)
500
These are lessons learned from Stanley Milgram's classical learning experiment
What is (hostess judges response)
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