Foundations of Social Psychology
This field studies how individuals think, feel, and behave in social contexts.
What is social psychology?
What is a hypothesis?
This term refers to the shared beliefs, values, and norms which exist within a group.
What is culture?
This term refers to an organized network of beliefs about oneself.
What is a self-schema?
This term refers to the finding that a belief in treatment effectiveness can cause actual improvement.
What is the placebo effect?
These three components represent the "ABC Triad".
What are affect, behavior, and cognition?
This term refers to a quantitative measure of a particular social construct.
What is an operational definition?
This term refers to a culture's rules about when and how to show emotions.
What are display rules?
This term describes the portion of an individual's self-schema which is active in the present moment.
What is the working self-concept?
This tendency causes individuals to ignore future benefits in favor of more immediate rewards.
What is temporal discounting?
This principle states behavior is shaped by both personal and situational factors.
What is interactionism?
This term refers to how well a measure can accurately measure its intended construct.
What is validity?
This psychologist emphasized that humans develop within the context of culture and social interactions.
Who was Lev Vygotsky?
This bias refers to the tendency for individuals to seek information which confirms one’s self-concept.
What is self-verification?
This occurs when an individual fails to notice if their choice is later changed to something they did not choose.
What is choice blindness?
Studying this phenomenon examines how an individual's beliefs and expectations can (often inadvertently) cause the expected outcome to occur.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
This relationship would exist between two variables who have an inverse relationship with one another (e.g., if one variable increases, the other decreases).
What is a negative correlation?
This "error" involves the mistaken belief that differences from a norm imply inferiority.
What is the difference-equals-deficit error?
This theory proposes that individuals will make comparisons between their actual self and their ideal and ought selves in order to identify inconsistencies.
What is self-discrepancy theory?
This term refers to the tendency for individuals to continue an investment due to effort already spent, even if the benefits are diminished.
What is the sunk-cost fallacy?
This bias causes individuals to often assume natural selection is about improving on a species - something which is not always the case.
What is the naturalistic fallacy?
This term refers to how knowledge of the research's goal can bias a participant's behavior in a research study.
What are demand characteristics?
This theory proposes that humans who are reminded about or compelled to think about death will experience anxiety, which can be alleviated through cultural worldviews.
What is Terror Management Theory?
This phenomenon refers to the tendency for individuals to overestimate how much others notice you.
What is the spotlight effect?
This bias refers to the tendency to choose the default option due to cognitive ease.
What is the status-quo bias?