History
Kurt ______ is sometimes know as "the father of social psychology."
Lewin
The social __________ is the people with whom we interact with everyday.
The assumption that human nature, including much of our social behavior, is determined largely by our evolutionary past.
Evolutionary Adaptation
cognition that relates to social activities and that helps us understand and predict the behavior or ourselves and others.
Social Cognition
This measures the relationship between two variables.
correlation
Social Psychologists gave their opinions in the 1954 ________________ court case that helped end racial segregation in U.S. public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
The ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving that are shared by group members and perceived by them as appropriate.
Social Norms
The extent to which having a given characteristic helps the individual organism to survive and to reproduce at a higher rate than do other members of the species who do not have the characteristic.
Fitness
Affect
Independent Variable
Leon Festinger refined the experimental approach to studying behavior and developed the theory of cognitive _________
dissonance.
Cultural norms, common in western societies, that focus primarily on self-enhancement and independence.
Individualism
The motivation to protect and enhance the self and the people who are psychologically close to us.
self-concern
Emotions
The variable that is measured after the manipulations have occurred.
Dependent Variable
In the 21st century social psychology has been expanded into area of social ____________, which is the study of how our social behavior both influences and is influenced by the activities of our brain.
neuroscience
These norms indicate that people would be more fundamentally connected with others and thus are more oriented toward interdependence.
Collectivism
The motivations to affiliate with, accept, and be accepted by others.
other-concern
A knowledge representation that includes information about a person or group.
Schema
The manipulation of a given situation or experience for two or more groups of individuals who are initially created to be equivalent, followed by a measurement of the effect of that experience.
Experiment
The Stanford ________________ conducted by Philip Zimbardo in the 1960s demonstrated the powerful role of the social situation on human behavior.
Prison Experiment
Social influence
Those whom we view as being similar and important to us and with whom we share close social connections.
ingroup
The sharing of goods, services, emotions, and other social outcomes.
Social Exchange
Factorial design