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Exam 1 - Ch 1 Flashcards

1
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what is social psychology

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scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, & behaviors are influenced by people

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2
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scientific explanation that connects and organizes existing observations and suggest fruitful paths for future research

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theories

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3
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what are the four major theoretical perspectives of social psychology

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sociocultural, evolutionary, social learning, and social cognitive

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4
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perspective that view that person’s prejudices, preferences, and political persuasiveness are affected by factors that work at the level of the group - nationality, social class, current historical trends

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sociocultural

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5
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rule or expectation for appropriate social behavior

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social norm

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6
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beliefs, customs, habits, language shared by a group of people

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culture

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7
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perspective where human social behavior is explained by physical and psychological predispositions that helped our ancestors survive

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evolutionary perspective

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8
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what drives the evolutionary perspective

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natural selection

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9
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what are adaptations in terms of natural selection

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changes made in order to survive

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10
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perspective where social behavior is driven by each individual’s past learning experiences

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social learning perspective

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perspective where people choose what events to pay attention to, what interpretations to make, how to store memories - interaction between inner experience and outside world

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social cognitive perspective

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12
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what are the 2 broad principles shared by different perspectives

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goal oriented and continual interaction

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13
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how is goal orientation related to social behavior

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idea that people interact w one another to achieve a goal or to satisfy an inner motivation

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14
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how is continual interaction related to social behavior

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idea of continual interaction between the individual and the situation

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15
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establish social ties, understand ourselves or others, gain and maintain status, defend ourselves and those we value, attract and retain mates: examples of?

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goals that drive our social behavior

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16
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what are some examples of features or characteristics a ‘person’ carries into a social situation

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height, sex, introverted/extroveted

17
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what does the ‘situation’ refer to

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the environmental or circumstances outside of the person

18
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what are the two categories used by psychologists to study social behavior

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descriptive and experimental

19
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method of measuring or recording behaviors, thoughts, feelings in their natural state

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descriptive

20
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method where there is a procedure for uncovering casual processes by manipulating a variable

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experimental

21
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naturalistic observation, case studies, archives, surveys, and psychological tests are all examples of what

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descriptive methods

22
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recording everyday behaviors as they infold in their natural setting

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naturalistic observations

23
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intensive examination of one individual or group

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case study

24
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examination of systematic data originally collected for other purposes

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archival method

25
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technique in which researcher asks people to report on their beliefs, feelings, or behaviors

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survey method

26
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instrument for assessing a person’s abilities, cognition, or motivations

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psychological tests

27
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true or false: reliability is to consistency to results while validity is correctly measuring what its supposed to

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true

28
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concept: extent to which two or more variables are associated w one another

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correlation

29
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what is correlation coefficient

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mathematical expression of the relationship bt two variables

30
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what is the range for correlation coefficients

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negative 1 to positive 1

31
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research method in which the research sets out to systematically manipulate one variable and holding others constant

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experiment

32
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true or false: internal validity has to do with the confidence of cause and effect

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true

33
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true or false: external validity has to do w generalized to public

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true

34
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what is demand characteristics

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expectations on how to behave

35
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true or false: social psychology is an interdisciplinary bridge-used to understand other areas in psychology

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true

36
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true or false: experimental methods are the only way to truly prove causation between variables

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true

37
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what are the ethical issues concerning social psychological research

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comprising the wellbeing of participants

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