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Current Issues in Social Psychology Flashcards

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What is social psychology according to Allport (1935, p.5)

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“The scientific investigation of how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others”

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Which is an Overt behaviour?

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A. Thoughts
B. Goals
C. Fighting
D. Feelings

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What did Folk Psychology determine in the late 1800s?

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The collective mind. A societal way of thinking eg. crowds

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What approach did Tarde establish in (1898)?

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The bottom -up approach
(the consideration of the individual)

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What are the main two strands of Social Psychology?

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Psychological and Sociological

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What is the origin of the Psychological strand?

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Logical empiricism

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What is the methodological approach to the psychological strand?

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Quantitative/ Hypothetic-deductive
e.g. experimental

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What is the origin of the Sociological strand?

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Social constructionist / humanistic

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What is the methodological approach to the sociological strand?

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Qualitative/ Indicative
e.g. discourse analysis

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What did Shove (2010) state?

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That society changes as a group/ whole
Psychologists and Sociologists shouldn’t work together.

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What did Durkheim state about social psychology?

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That social laws are determined by society as a collective.

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what was Whitmash, O’Neil and Lorenzoni (2010)’s response to Shove (2010)?

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Her models were over simplistic portrayals of society.

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Examples of Social Psychological Methods?

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Surveys, Interviews, Focus Groups

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What’s an issue with lab based experiment?

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low in external validity

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What’s a pro to using a lab based experiment

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high in internal validity
avoidance of confounding variables

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What’s a con to using field experiments?

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less control over variables
difficult to randomly assign participants

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What are demand characteristics?

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Where the participants are aware of the hypothesis (or think they are) and change their behaviour which is either consistent or inconsistent wit the hypothesis.

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What are the three Level 3 Strategies of the model developed by Corneille & Lush (2021)? (demand characteristics)

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Faking
Imagination
Phenomenological Control

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Faking (Corneille & Lush, 2021)

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Intentional and Conscious
No genuine experience

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Imagination (Corneille & Lush, 2021)

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Intentional and conscious
genuine experience

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Phenomenological Control (Corneille & Lus, 2021)

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Intentional and unconscious
Genuine Experience

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4 ways to avoid Demand characteristics?

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double blind studies
funnelled debrief
quasi controls
deception & distraction

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3 types of sensitivity (Tourangeau & Yan, 2007)

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Intrusiveness: topics perceived as private or taboo.
Threat of disclosure: costs of potential disclosure.
Social desirability: adhere to social norms.

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6 ways to deal with sensitive questioning

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anonymous research setting- no interviewer
have objective data
non-threading question wording
Assurance of confidentiality and data protection
bogus pipeline procedure
anonymous response techniques

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What are the 6 Ethics Guidelines according to the BPS (2014)?

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Risk- harmful procedures or long term effects on the participant
Consent- study info, written consent, option to withdraw
Confidentiality- anonymity, reporting, destruction of data
Advice
Deception - to assure natural behaviour
Debriefing - explanation, to leave the participant with out effects

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what 3 factors should a psychologist consider when adding deception to an experiment?

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that there are no other deceptive means within the experiment
the contribution of the experiment to science
the deception won’t cause harm

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What are examples of Neo-behaviourism?

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beliefs, feelings, motives.

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What two main studies did Behaviourism originate from?

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Classical Conditioning- Pavlov
Operant conditioning- Skinner

29
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What is the Gestalt theory?

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The sum is greater than its parts (Koffka, 1935)

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What is cognitive Psychology?

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the idea that we actively interpreted change our environment through our thinking.

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what is Social Cognition?

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how cognitive processes and representations are constructed and influence behaviour

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3 components of social cognition

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attitudes, dual process models, schemas

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What is evolutionary social psychology based on?

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our ancestral past of human development- Evolution and the Darwinian Theory

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What is the collectivist meta-theory?

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Our behaviour is dependent on a socially constructed group norm.

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What is the individualistic personality meta-theory?

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Our behaviour is dependent on our individual differences and characteristics

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What does the neuroscience and biochemistry meta-theory state?

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That our psychological processes occur in the brain, therefore must be associated with electro-chemical brain activity.

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What is a critique with Behaviourism?

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It exaggerates the extent to which people are passive to the situation

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What is a critique with Cognitive Psychology?

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may struggle to account for irrational or automatic behaviour

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What is a critique with Evolutionary approaches?

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Can it really account for the complexity of social behaviour?

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What is a critique with Individualistic personality?

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People behave differently in different situations

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What is a critique with the Collective?

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its difficult to predict which groups people might identify with

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What is a critique with Neuroscience and biochemistry?

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Does locating processes alone help us with understanding them?

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What is reductionism?

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Reducing the complexity of a situation to a lower means/ level

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What is an issue with Reductionism?

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It can leave the original question unanswered

45
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What is a benefit of reductionism?

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It breaks down the problem for analysis into smaller components

46
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What is Positivism?

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A non- critical acceptance of scientific method
study of humans- biased and not objective

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What is Hindsight Bias?

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The tendency for people to see a given outcome as “obvious” once the actual outcome becomes known

48
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What is data sharing?

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Depositing anonymised data sets in shared repositories.

49
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Two systems that have been implicated to avoid fraudulent data?

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  • Pre registration of studies (to indicate analyses in advance)
  • Statistical Developments (to detect the fraudulent data)
  • open access to published research

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