Invitation to Social Psychology
This is the definition of social psychology
What is the scientific study of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations!
Our beliefs about others' reactions to us
What is reflected self-appraisals
When people act in ways that conflict with their private beliefs due to a concern for the social consequences
What is pluralistic ignorance
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?
The way things are is the way things should be
What is the naturalistic fallacy.
These are five methods that can be used in social psychology
What are: observational research, archival research, surveys, experimental research, and correlational research
This psychologist who is the author of Principles of Psychology
Who is William James?
Four out of five dentists say that using this toothpaste will reduce cavities VERSUS 20% of dentists say that using this toothpaste will not reduce cavities
What is positive versus negative framing?
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 the sociometer hypothesis?
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.
How one will behave to achieve a goal under particular circumstances
What is implementation intentions
Taking in all relevant information from the outside world
What is bottom-up processing?
A primary characteristic of correlational research that prohibits us from making causal conclusions
What is self-selection?
Telling participants about the research goals after the study
What is debriefing?
This is how interdependent cultures define self-esteem
What is they do not? They are motivated to improvement and commitment to collectivist goals.
This is the difference between when primacy and recency events tend to occur.
What is when the information is ambiguous (primacy effect) versus what is what more readily comes to mind (recency effect)?
The Acme Selling Inventory very accurately predicts who will be better at selling cars. This measure is said to
What is have high measurement validity?
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...(HINT -- not causation)
What is internal validity
This theory says that our self-esteems rises and falls with successes and failures in the domains we have staked our self-worth
What is contingencies of self-worth
Judging the probability of some event by how readily pertinent instances come to mind.
What is the availability heuristic?
Objects are perceived through active usually, nonconscious interpretation of what the object represents
What is Gestalt psychology?