Social Psych
A social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when there are other people present.
What is BYSTANDER EFFECT?
A type of probability sampling where everyone in the entire target population has an equal chance of being selected.
What is a RANDOM SAMPLE?
The statement of procedures the researcher is going to use in order to measure a specific variable.
What is an OPERATIONAL DEFINITION?
In 1997, researcher Steven Spencer discovered that equally intelligent women performed worse on a challenging math test than did men. However, if before the test, women were first led to believe that women typically perform as well as men on the test, women's scores were similar to the scores of the men. (what is this an example of)
What is a STEROTYPE THREAT?
A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
What is HE WAS BALD?
The tendency for people to under-emphasize situational explanations for an individual's observed behavior while over-emphasizing dispositional and personality-based explanations for their behavior.
What is FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR?
A precise, testable statement of what the researcher(s) predict will be the outcome of the study.
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
A measure of the variability of a set of scores or values within a group, indicating how narrowly or broadly they deviate from the mean.
What is STANDARD DEVIATION?
A political rally escalates people's emotions about an issue, causing a number of them to form a mob and vandalize local businesses. (what is this an example of)
What is DEINDIVIDUATION?
What month of the year has 28 days?
What is ALL OF THEM?
A compliance tactic that aims at getting a person to agree to a large request by having them agree to a modest request first.
What is the FOOT-IN-THE-DOOR-PHENOMENON?
A term referring to the repetition of a research study, generally with different situations and different subjects, to determine if the basic findings of the original study can be applied to other participants and circumstances.
What is REPLICATION?
Making reasoned judgments that are logical and well-thought out. It is a way of thinking in which you don't simply accept all arguments and conclusions you are exposed to but rather have an attitude involving questioning such arguments and conclusions.
What is CRITICAL THINKING?
You and your friends are throwing around a baseball in the house when it hits one of your mom's vases. Since you don't want to get in trouble, you blame it on your brother who was upstairs in his room. He ends up getting grounded and you get away with breaking the vase. (what is this an example of)
What is SCAPEGOAT THEORY?
What goes up but never comes down?
What is AGE?
A type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group.
What is CONFORMITY?
An experimental procedure in which neither the participant nor the experimenter are aware of which group (i.e., experimental or control) each participant belongs to.
What is a DOUBLE-BLIND PROCEDURE?
Term used by research psychologists to indicate whether or not the difference between groups can be attributed to chance or if the difference is likely the result of experimental influences.
What is a STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE?
Two neighbors are having an argument about some disruptive neighborhood problem. In this case, both neighbors may see themselves as the good and reasonable one while the other is disruptive and argumentative. Two groups at war may both simultaneously view themselves as the just, moral heroes in the scenario while viewing the others are amoral, cruel, and evil. (what is this an example of)
What is MIRROR-IMAGE PERCEPTIONS?
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
What are FOOTPRINTS?
A phenomenon in which people strive for consensus within a group.
What is GROUPTHINK?
Name the 4 parts of ethics to consider in an experiment.
What is CONSENT, SAFETY, CONFIDENTIALITY, DEBREIFING?
The perception of a relationship where none exists.
What is an ILLUSORY CORRELATION?
You're watching tv when you see a popular athlete that you're a big fan of is advertising new athletic shoes. Once the ad is over, you look online for those shoes and buy them since you saw your favorite athlete saying how great they were. (what is this an example of).
What is PERIPHERAL ROUTE PERSUASION?
What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; that which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?
What is NOTHING?