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Chapter 1 Flashcards

1
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social psychology

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scientific study of how people think about, influence and relate to one another

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social thinking

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perceive ourselves, judgements, attitudes

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social influence

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culture, persuasion, groups

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social relations

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prejudice, aggression, helping

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big ideas

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we react differently because we think differently

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social influences shape our behavior

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locality, education levels, subscribed media, culture

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internal forces

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inner attitudes about specific situations

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how does social psychology apply to every day life

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how to know ourselves better, implications for human health, implications for judicial procedures, influencing behaviors

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9
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is social psychology imply common sense?

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problem with it- invoked after we knew facts

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hindsight bias

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i knew it all along phenomenon

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research methods

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forming and testing a hypothesis

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hypothesis

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testable - allows us to test theories

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theory

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integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed event

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correlation research

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detecting natural associations - naturally occurring relationships among variables ex. location, fields

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positive correlation

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moving in the same direction

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negative

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one goes up, other goes down

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correlation and causation

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allows us to predict but not tell whether changing one variable will cause changes - do not equal each other

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survey research

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random sample, unrepresentative samples, order of questions

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anchoring bias

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wording of questions, framing

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experimental research

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cause-effect relationship

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control

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manipulating variables

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independent variable

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factor that researcher manipulates

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dependent variable

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variable being measured

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debriefing

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discloses any deception

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informed consent

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research participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate

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confidentiality

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private

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spotlight effect

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seeing ourselves center stage, thus overestimating the extent to which others’ attention is aimed at us

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illusion of transparency

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illusion that our concealed emotions lean out and can be easily read by others

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self-concept

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what we know and believe about ourselves “who am i?”

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self- schema

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beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant information

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what determines our self concept

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roles we play, social identities, comparisons we make with others, how people judge us, surrounding culture

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the roles we play

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new roles begin as playacting then become reality

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social comparisons

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we compare ourselves with others and consider how they differ

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individualism

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concept of giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals and defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather group identifications

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example

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becoming an adult means moving out of your parents house

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collectivism

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giving priority to the goals of one’s group

37
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planning fallacy

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tendency to underestimate how long it will take to compete a task

38
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impact bias

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overestimating the enduring impact of emotion-causing events

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self esteem

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person’s overall evaluation or sense of self-wroth

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self efficacy

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how competent we feel on a task - lead sis to set challenging goals and to permit

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what is the nature and motivating power of self-esteem?

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our overall self-evaluation or sense of self-worth

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trade off of low VS high self esteem

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dark side- narcissism

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locus of control

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extent to which people perceive outcomes a sinter ally controllable by their own efforts and actions or as externally controlled by chance or outside forces

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self serving bias

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tendency to perceive oneself favorably

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areas in which we think

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ethics, professional competence, virtues, intelligence, parental support, health, driving

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unrealistic optimism

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is on the rise, illusory optimism increases our vulnerability

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defensive pessimism

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adaptive value of anticipating and harnessing one’s anxiety to motivate effective action

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false consensus effect

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tendency to overestimate the community of one’s opinions

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adaptive

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protests people form depression

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maladaptive

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groups serving bias

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self presentation

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wanting to present a desired image both to an external audience and to an internal audience

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impression management

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tendency to act like social chameleons

53
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priming

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activating particular associations in memory

54
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perceiving and interpreting information

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Kulechov effect

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