Chapter 1 (Midterms) Flashcards
Scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another; science that studies the influences of our situations, with special attention to how we view and affect one another.
Social Psychology
When did social psychology assume its current form?
1930
Big ideas in social psychology (social thinking) (3)
1.We construct our social
reality
2.Our social intuitions are
powerful, sometimes perilous
3.Attitudes shape, and are
shaped by, behavior
Big ideas in social psychology (social influences) (2)
4.Social influences shape
behavior
5.Dispositions shape
behavior
Big ideas in social psychology (social relations) (2)
- Social behavior is also
biological behavior - Feelings and actions toward
people are sometimes
negative (prejudiced,
aggressive) and sometimes
positive (helpful, loving)
Social psychologist Hazel Markus (2005) sums it up:
“People are, above all, malleable.”
People’s personal convictions about what is desirable and how people ought to behave
Values
The enduring behaviors, ideas,
attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.
Culture
A society’s widely held ideas and values, including assumptions and cultural
ideologies; help us make sense of our world.
Social representations
4 examples of value judgments
DEFINING THE GOOD LIFE
PROFESSIONAL ADVICE
FORMING CONCEPTS
LABELING
The tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one’s ability to have foreseen how
something turned out; also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.
Hindsight bias
An integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events.
Theory
A testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events.
Hypothesis
Research done in natural, real-life settings outside the laboratory.
Field research
The study of the naturally occurring relationships among variables.
Correlational research
Studies that seek clues to cause–effect relationships by manipulating one or more
factors (independent variables) while controlling others (holding them constant).
Experimental research