Chapter 1 - Intro.
Which research method measures and records behaviors, thoughts, and feelings in their natural state?
What are descriptive methods?
What is considered to be a relatively long-lasting feeling that is diffuse and not directed toward particular targets?
What is a mood?
How many core processes are there in social cognition?
What is four. (attention, interpretation, judgement, and memory)
Which perspective suggests that social interactions can be thought of as a play with actors, settings, and scripts?
What is the dramaturgical perspective?
The ability of a behavior or cognitive process to operate without conscious guidance once it is put into motion is known as what?
What is automaticity?
Which theoretical perspective of social psychology holds that people's mental processes are related to their social experiences?
What is the social cognitive perspective?
Knowledge of a specific episode, event, or individual that constitutes an example of a category is what?
What is an exemplar?
What social phenomena occurs when an initially inaccurate expectation leads to actions that cause the expectation to come true?
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
What is basking in the reflected glory?
What is socialization?
What experimental technique is utilized by experimenters to ensure that participants have an equal probability of being in any of the different conditions of an experiment?
What is random assignment?
Members from this type of culture tend to prioritize group harmony and collectivist actions.
What is a collectivist (interdependent) culture?
What is the covariation model?
Making excuses and staging performances are strategies for what type of self-presentation image?
What is self-promotion? (or appearing competent)
People differ in their desire to perform effectively either because of intrinsic reasons such as gaining mastery or because of extrinsic reasons such as appearing competent. The desire to perform effectively is known as what?
What is competence motivation?
Bert punches Derrick after he makes a provocative joke about Bert's mother. Which of the five fundamental motives would explain Bert's actions?
What is the fundamental motive to defend ourselves and others we value?
The process by which people observe their own behavior to infer their own internal characteristics is known as what?
What is the self-perception process
In line at a supermarket, Becky sees a woman start screaming at the checkout employee. If Becky thinks that this woman has an aggressive disposition and underestimates any situational factors, then Becky would likely be committing what social phenomena?
What is the fundamental attribution error?
What are two strategies of ingratiation?
What is expressing liking for others, creating similarity, making ourselves physically attractive, and projecting modest?
What are the three cognitive simplification strategies that we use to conserve mental effort?
What are expectations, dispositional inferences, and cognitive heuristics?
What are the four major theoretical perspectives of social psychology?
What are the sociocultural, evolutionary, social learning, and social cognitive perspectives?
An adolescent believes that drinking alcohol should only be reserved for special occasions. This adolescent's belief about alcohol reflects what type of social norm?
What is an injunctive norm?
Billy is asked whether there are more dogs or cats in the U.S. He can quickly think of more examples of cats than dogs because there are lots of cats in his neighborhood. If Billy estimates that there are more cats than dogs in the U.S. then he has used which cognitive heuristic?
What is the availability heuristic?
Lori wakes up one day with a gigantic zit on her forehead. Lori goes about her day, but believes that everyone has been staring at her pimple. Lori's overestimate that everyone is looking at her because of her pimple is an example of which social phenomena?
What is the spotlight effect?
Ricky is conducting a study to the test the effects of caffeine on sleep. Ricky manipulates the amount of caffeine each participants receives and records the number of hours they sleep at night. What is the dependent variable in this experiment?
What is the number of hours slept (or length of time spent sleeping)