Ch 1

Question 1

definition of social psychology

Answer 1

social psychology:
the scientific study of the ways in which people’s thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors are influenced by the real or implied presence of other people

Question 2

hindsight bias:

Answer 2

our tendency (usually erroneous) to overestimate our powers of prediction
once we know the outcome of a given event

Question 3

exact replication

Answer 3

(also called “direct replication”). In this form, a scientist attempts to exactly recreate the scientific methods used in conditions of an earlier study to determine whether the results come out the same.

Question 4

conceptual replication

Answer 4

This occurs when—instead of an exact replication, which reproduces the methods of the earlier study as closely as possible—a scientist tries to confirm the previous findings using a different set of specific methods that test the same idea.

Question 5

research design, Observational method

Answer 5

 Observing people, thoroughly
recording measurements or
impressions

Question 6

research design, Archival Analysis

Answer 6

 Examining the accumulated
documents (archives) of a
culture
 Diaries, novels, magazines,
social media, internet use

Question 7

research design, The Correlational Method

Answer 7

Assessing the relationship

between two variables

Question 8

research design, The Experimental Method:

Answer 8

Allows causal inferences

Question 9

Independent Variable

Answer 9

The variable changed or varied to
see if it has an effect on another
variable

Question 10

Dependent Variable

Answer 10

The variable measured to see if it’s

influenced by the IV

Question 11

Generalizability Across Situations

Answer 11

The extent that we can generalize from experimental situations to real-life situations

Question 12

Psychological Realism

Answer 12

How similar psychological processes triggered in an experiment are to everyday life

Question 13

Cover Story

Answer 13

Disguised version of the study’s true purpose