Chapter 1 Flashcards
An interdisciplinary subfield that focuses on how psychology - particularly social and cognitive psychology - relates to economic decision making.
Behavioural economics
A subfield of psychology that examines the role of genetic factors in behavior.
Behavioral genetics.
Research designed to compare and contrast people of different cultures.
Cross-cultural research
A system of enduring meaninigns, beliefs, values, assumptions, institutions, and practices shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.
Culture
A subfiled of psychology that uses the principles of evolution to understand human social behavior.
Evolutionary Psychology.
An emphasis on how both an individuals personality and environmental characteristics influence behavior.
Interactionist perspective.
Research designed to examine racial and ethnic groups within cultures.
Multicultural research.
A movement to make research materials, methods, hypotheses and data more transparent, accessible and easily shared with researchers from other labs.
Open science.
The study of how people perceive, remember, and interpret information about themselves and others.
Social cognition.
The study of the relationship between neural and social processes.
Social neuroscience.
The scientific study of how individuals think, feels, and behave in a social context.
Social Psychology.
_____________ _______________ is the scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context.
Social Psychology.
Early research by _________________ and Ringelmann established an eduring topic in social psychology: how the presence of others affects an individuals performance.
Triplett and Ringelmann
Social psychology began to flourish as the world needed explanations for what tragic event?
WWII
____________ _______________’s experiments in the 1960’s demonstracted individuals vulnerability to the destructive commands of authority.
Stanley Milgram’s
Individuals sometimes are faced with a conflict between two motivations that can affect cognitive processes - what are they?
Wanting to be right and wanting to feel good about onself.
A great deal of recent social psychological research has explored the ______________ versus the _______________ nature of a number of processes, such as stereotyping.
Automatic versus controllable.
True/ False: We have large brains in order to socialize.
True.
What makes social psychology different from artistic and humanistic endeavours?
It applies the scientific method of systematic observation, description, and measurement to the study of the human condition.
This phenomenon often causes people to question how social psychology is different from common sense, or traditional folk wisdom.
Knew it all along phenomenon.
With his focus on the interaction of individuals and their social context and its emphasis on the use of experimentation and the scientific method, this pioneer in social psychology helped establish social psychology as the discipline it is today.
Floyd Allport.
The first three textbooks in social psychology were written by whom?
William McDougall, Edward Ross, and Floyd Allport.
This dictators influence caused people around the world to become desperate for answers to social psychological questions about what causes violence, prejudice, genocide, conformity and obedience, and a host of other social problems and behaviour.
Adolf Hitler
This is the primary founder of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
Gordon Allport.
This man founded a creative theory based on the fundemental principle that behavior is a function of the interaction between the person and the environment.
Kurt Lewin
____________ ______________’s demonstration of how willing people are to conform to an obviously wrong majority amazes students even today.
Solomon Asch’s
This man introduced two important theories - one concerning how people try to learn about themselves by comparing themselves to other people and one about how people’s attitudes can be changed by their own behaviors.
Leon Festinger
This perspective, known as the __________ perspective emphasizes the role of cogntiion and deemphasized the role of emotion and motivation in explaining social psychological issues.
Cold perspective.
This perspective focuses on the emotion and motivation as determinants of our thoughts and actions.
Hot perspective.
