the study of the real or imagined influence of other people
What is social psychology
100
The three main research designs in social psychology.
What are observational, correlational, and experimental
100
_______ involves quick, relatively effortless processing that can be difficult to stop; ________ involves more slowed, intentional processing that is often reason-based
What are automatic thinking and controlled thinking (two "modes" of social cognition)
100
________ is to express an emotion; _______ is to interpret an emotion that is being expressed
What are encoding and decoding
100
This theory says that when we form an attribution about the cause of a behavior, we engage in a systematic thinking process where we notice any patterns between causal factors and the occurrence of a behavior
What is the covariation model (where "covaries" references how behavior changes across time, place, etc.)
200
This concept illustrates the inaccurate conclusion someone might make when saying "The people who committed suicide at Jonestown were all mentally ill"
What is the fundamental attribution error
200
Researchers plot several data points on a scatter-plot graph. They have found that as time watching TV increases, so does violent behavior. What type of correlation is this?
What is a positive correlation (note that we can determine direction, but not strength, of the correlation with the information provided)
200
These mental short-cuts help us make sense of our social world, often filling in gaps when we don't have all of the information we need (such as in new situations)
What are schemas
200
A listing of at least three nonverbal cues
What are facial expressions, tone of voice, body position, gaze, use of touch, movements, and gestures
200
Taylor and Fiske's (1975) research, with two actors and six observers, suggests that people will name the "dominant" speaker in the conversation as the person whom they can see when witnessing a verbal exchange. This concept is ________.
What is perceptual salience
300
The two central motives that influence the ways that we construe, or interpret, the world
What is the need to feel good; and the need to be accurate
300
This process helps to ensure that researchers study a specific behavior with a sample of research participants that, overall, accurately represent the larger population.
What is random selection
300
The three categories of schemas, according to your textbook authors
What are chronic, current goal, and recent experience (see pages 56-57 for more info)
300
"There's no crying! There's no crying in baseball" These famous words from the movie A League of Their Own are an example of this concept.
What are display rules (dictating which emotions can be shown, by whom, and to what extent)
300
A person with this medical diagnosis will have difficulty forming new memories and be unable to consistently rely on mental schemas
What is Korsakoff's Syndrome
400
Liberman and colleagues (2004) found that both cooperative people and competitive people were likely to change their cooperative strategy based on ___________, which established a social norm for expected behavior.
What is the name of the game they were playing.
400
A researcher is interested in seeing if mood varies based on the hour of the day. She captures hundreds of Facebook posts and tweets from Twitter and analyzes them for emotional content-- positive, neutral, and negative. What research method is this researcher using?
What is the observational method (more specifically, archival analysis-- using written records to "see" or capture behavior)
400
Tversky and Kahnemann's (1974) research suggests that most people think that there are more words that begin with R than there are words that have R as the third letter. This is an example of __________.
What is the availability heuristic
400
The six emotions that are generally accepted as identifiable cross-culturally; however, affect blending that affect our ability to recognize them
What are anger, sadness, happiness, surprise, disgust, and fear
400
Inspired by Isen and Levin (1972), you decide to give participants free tickets to an uplifting movie. You have a confederate drop papers in front of people who just got out of the movie and people who are just walking by who have not seen the uplifting movie movie for free. You want to see if the participants help pick up the dropped papers. What type of research design have you developed?
What is an experimental design (where seeing the uplifting movie is the IV and picking up the papers is the DV)
500
This concept suggests that a person who undergoes an unpleasant process to get into a group is likely to report that they like being a part of it.
What is suffering and self-justification.
500
______ is a process whereby research participants are made aware of the nature of the study they're agreeing to be a part of; a researcher conducting this study has likely submitted a research proposal to ________ for approval before interacting with potential participants.
What are informed consent and the Institutional Review Board
500
This type of thinking can be described as one in which people focus on the overall context, particularly the ways in which objects relate to each other-- you may find that it's more common in Asian cultures than in American culture.
What is holistic thinking (which contrasts with an analytic thinking style)
500
In a relatively happy marriage, a partner will likely make ______ _______ about their partner's positive behaviors. Furthermore, the "father" of this type of research is considered to be ______ ______.
What is an internal attribution; who is Fritz Heider
500
Name two disciplines or fields that are related to social psychology. Then, provide the mathematical formula that explains a person's social behavior, according to Chapter 1.
What are personality psychology and sociology; Behavior is a function of the person and the environment/situation, represented as: B = f(P,E)