1: Intro To Social Psychology

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Social neuroscience

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An interdisciplinary field that explores the neural bases of social and emotional processes and behaviors, and how they affect our brain and biology

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Culture

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Enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes,and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next

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Social representations

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Society’s widely held ideas and values, including assumptions and cultural ideologies. Our social representations help us make sense of our world

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Hindsight bias

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The “I knew it all along” phenomenon

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Theory

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Integrated set of principles that explain and predict observes events

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Hypothesis

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Testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events

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Field research

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Research done in natural real life settings outside the lab

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Correlational research

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The study of the naturally occurring relationships among variables

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Experimental research

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Studies that seek clues to cause effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors (independent variables) while controlling others (holding them constant)

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Random sampling

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Survey procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion

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Framing

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Way a question or issue is posed, influences people’s decisions and opinions

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Independent variable

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Experimental factor that is manipulated

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Dependent variable

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Variable being measured so called because it may depend on manipulation a of the independent variable

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Random assignment

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Assigning participants to the conditions of an experiment such that all persons have the same chance of being in a given condition

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Mundane realism

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Degree to which an experiment is superficially similar to everyday situations

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Experimental realism

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Degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants

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Deception

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In research, an effect by which participants are misinformed or misled about the study’s methods and purposes

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Demand characteristics

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Cues in an experiment that tell the participant what behavior is expected

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Informed consent

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An ethical principle requiring that research participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate

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Debriefing

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Post experimental explanation of a study to the participants. This discloses any deception and often queries participants regarding their understandings and feelings