Chapter 1

Question 1

What is social psychology?

Answer 1

Scientific study of how we think, feel and behave influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others.

Question 2

What is the ABC of social psych?

Answer 2

Affect
Behaviour
Cognition

Question 3

What is the Zeigeist

Answer 3

The spirit of the times. The general intellectual, moral and cultural climate of an era.
Is there a war? Violence? How is the economy going? Who are the celebrities?
How does it impact social psych?

Question 4

What is social facilitation theory?

Answer 4

being around others helps you perform better

Question 5

What is Gestalt thinking?

Answer 5

Suggests that we take in info as a whole first and then as the sum of its parts (whole>sum of parts)

Question 6

Who is considered to be the father of social psych?

Answer 6

Kurt Lewin (1936-37)

Question 7

What is the formula that Kurt Lewin used to show that behaviours are a function of the person and the environment?

Answer 7

Behaviour = f(Person, Environment)

Question 8

What is social neuroscience?

Answer 8

how our social behaviour influences and is influenced by our brain activity

Question 9

What is evolutionary adaptation?

Answer 9

assumption that human nature is determined largely by our evolutionary past
protect ourselves and others (concern for those)

Question 10

What is the evolutionary value of social behaviour?

Answer 10

Most of the traits we have today - including social behaviour - come from our ancestors and were developed to help them survive - most of what makes us “human” is already in our DNA

Question 11

What is the self-concern?

Answer 11

desire to protect those that are close to us

Question 12

What is the other-concern?

Answer 12

desire to affiliate with, accept, and be accepted by others close to us

Question 13

What is kin selection?

Answer 13

strategies that favor the reproductive success of one’s relatives, sometimes even at the cost of the individual’s own survival

Question 14

What is kin?

Answer 14

People genetically related to us

Question 15

What is an ingroup?

Answer 15

those whom we view and being similar and important to us even if we do not share genes

Question 16

What is reciprocal altruism?

Answer 16

they will do the same for us - increases with people closer to us

Question 17

Where is other-concern at play except in our social circles?

Answer 17

• Communities (ex: at work)
• Meet a partner (being able to grow, meet other cultures)
• Expose to other cultures
• Morality, Compassion, Altruism are in our nature - aggression and hostility are the exception

Question 18

What is the Social Situation?

Answer 18

the people with whom we interact everyday

The social situation is often a stronger determinant of behaviour than our personality

Question 19

What is social influence?

Answer 19

the process of how people in our social situations influence our behaviour and how we influence theirs
We might modify who we really are in order to fit in with groups

Question 20

What is social support?

Answer 20

the comfort we receive from people around us (an example of the influence that others have on us)

Question 21

What are social norms?

Answer 21

The ways of thinking, feeling or behaving that are shared by group members and perceived by them as appropriate. We aren’t born knowing this, because social norms can vary between groups

Question 22

What is culture?

Answer 22

A group of people, normally living within a given geographical region, who share common set of social norms, including religious and family values and moral beliefs

Question 23

Are Western cultures more individualistic or collectivistic?

Answer 23

Individualist

Question 24

Are Eastern cultures more individualistic or collectivistic?

Answer 24

Collectivistic