The exploration of the interaction of an individual person and a given situation.
What is social psychology?
100
A general framework that allows us to make and test predictions.
What is theory?
100
Cognitive frameworks that help guide us to understand the world.
What are schemas?
100
The various beliefs you hold about yourself.
What is self concept?
100
What is the name of our textbook?
What is THINK Social Psychology?
200
The idea that when you are surrounded by others and are doing the same task then you perform better.
What is social facilitation?
200
The process of gathering evidence in specific ways.
What is research?
200
Schemas about people; assumes that all members of a group share some common features.
What is stereotyping?
200
Beliefs about aspects of your identity.
What is self-schema?
200
Mood at the time of learning is a retrieval cue.
What is mood dependent memory?
300
Three main areas of interest in social psychology.
What are social perception, social influence, and social interaction?
300
Can occur in a natural setting or controlled environment.
What is an observation?
300
Predictions that cause themselves to come true.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
300
Thinking about your own thoughts.
What is introspection?
300
The condition that is measured by the researcher.
What is an independent variable (IV)?
400
A perspective that focuses on the physical and biological predispositions that result in human survival.
What is evolutionary perspective?
400
Gathering information from existing records.
What are archival studies?
400
When making a critical decision, you put more thought into it.
What is control processing?
400
Theory of self-concept that explains how close we are to the person we want to be
What is self-discrepancy theory?
400
The condition that is measured by the researcher.
What is dependent variable (DV)?
500
A phenomena that occurs when individuals make less of an effort when attempting to achieve a particular goal than if they were attempting to achieve the goal on their own.
What is social loafing?
500
1) craft a research question
2) examine existing literature
3) form a testable hypothesis
4) select the best method to explore your research question
5) replication - repeating research to verify findings
What is a research process?
500
Mental short cuts.
What is Heuristics?
500
The kind of motivation we use by taking a certain action for the sake of enjoyment. This leads to greater pleasure.
What is intrinsic motivation?
500
Name the four types of heuristics.
What are availability heuristics, representative heuristics, anchoring and adjustment heuristics, and framing heuristics?