The sum total of an individual's beliefs about his or her own personal attributes.
What is self-concept?
100
Our self image is based on how others respond to us.
Who is Cooley?
100
What object was used to come to a conclusion that there is a relationship between mood and culture?
What is a pen?
100
The scientific study of how individuals think, feel and behave in a social context.
What is Social Psychology?
100
A testable prediction about the conditions under which an event will occur.
What is a Hypothesis?
200
Factors external to the individual that serves to explain why they do a particular job. For example: salary, rewards, grades
What is extrinsic motivation?
200
Demonstrated that there is a change in people's behavior caused by the awareness of being studied.
Who is Elton Mayo?
200
North Americans and Europeans have an independent view of the self whereas Asians, Africans and South Americans hold an interdependent view of the self.
What is Individualism and Collectivism?
200
"I am a bad mom".
What is self-esteem?
200
Measurement or manipulation of a conceptual variable.
What is operational definition?
300
Self knowledge that is gained by looking inward at one's own thoughts and feelings.
What is Introspection?
300
Demonstrated how willing people are to conform to an obviously wrong majority in the Line Experiment.
Who is Solomon Asch?
300
Different cultures use facial expressions, hand gestures, eye contact and other cues to reveal their feelings.
What is body language/nonverbal behavior?
300
The process by which we try to shape what other people think of us and what we think of ourselves.
What is self-presentation?
300
A method of assigning participants to the various conditions of an experiment so that each participant in the experiment has an equal chance of being in any of the groups.
What is random assignment?
400
A general term for the processes by which people come to understand one another.
What is Social Perception?
400
We make social comparisons when we are unsure about our abilities and opinions.
Who is Leon Festinger?
400
These six basic emotions are universally decoded or recognized.
What are anger, happiness, sadness, surprise, fear and disgust?
400
The match or mismatch between how we see ourselves (real self) and how we want to see ourselves (ideal self).
What is self-discrepancy?
400
Sudhir Venkatesh's book "Gang Leader for a Day" is based on data collected using the ________ research method.
What is Observation?
500
A process by which people explain the causes of somebody else's behavior. The causes could be personal or situational.
What is Attribution?
500
Behavior is a function of the interaction between the person and the environment also known as the Interactionist perspective; was also famous for his leadership studies.
Who is Kurt Lewin?
500
The extent to which results obtained under one set of circumstances would also occur in a different set of circumstances (i.e culture).
What is External Validity?
500
"I am so anxious and nervous and stressed...I am pretty certain I am going to fail this test."
What is self-handicapping?
500
The absolute value of the number indicates the strength of the relationship between two variables and the sign indicates the direction of the relationship.