Intro

Question 1

what is the main difference between personality psych and social psych?

Answer 1

personality focuses on the person as the locus of explanation, while social focuses on the situation as the locus of explanation

Question 2

what does interactionism refer to? what is the formula for it?

Answer 2

the belief that thoughts, feelings and actions are products of the interactions between persons and situations, that both contribute…
x = f(P,S)

Question 3

what is conspecific?

Answer 3

things of the same species

Question 4

what does the term social pertain to?

Answer 4

other people

Question 5

what is the broad definition of social psych?

Answer 5

scientific study of human mind in the social context

Question 6

what does social content refer to?

Answer 6

other people as the content of psychological processes

Question 7

what are social processes?

Answer 7

other people as sources of influence on our T, F and B

Question 8

who theorised the crowd mind and when?

Answer 8

plato, 4 BC

Question 9

when did social psych as an empirical domain emerge?

Answer 9

late 19th century

Question 10

who created the first psych lab, and what did he focus on?

Answer 10

wundt, introspectionism

Question 11

who focused on behaviourism, and what is the primary focus of this approach? eg?

Answer 11

Watson and skinner

stimulus - response… pavlov’s dog

Question 12

when did psych (general) start to think of the mind as a computer? and what is the term for this?

Answer 12

1950’s/60’s

cognitive revolution

Question 13

what is the key focus of big data ?

Answer 13

the volume that can be obtained, and that fact that the data is naturally created, eg twitter posts

Question 14

what was an initial experiment/theory of social psych, and when did this take place?

Answer 14

social facilitation where people went faster on bikes in a race compared to racing the clock … late 19th century

Question 15

what main study came out of WW1 and inter war period?

Answer 15

groups and attitudes

Question 16

what main study came out of WWII

Answer 16

migration, social influence and practical problems, persuasion etc

Question 17

what is the replication crisis?

Answer 17

where a few established theories that were largely believed to be true came out with opposing results… some were legit and some were sham

Question 18

what are the 3 aspects of centre for open science?

Answer 18

open data, preregistered, open materials

Question 19

who conducted the “they saw a game” case study

Answer 19

Hastrof and Cantril

Question 20

what is the main theory to come from the they saw a game case study?

Answer 20

that there is no such thing as a game existing out there in its own right that people merely observe… we interpret what we see, nothing that we see is exactly as it is

Question 21

what are some key things that influence our perception of the world (according to the key reading)

Answer 21

identities, beliefs, attitudes, values

Question 22

what is the second core tenet that book proposes?

Answer 22

that social influence is powerful and pervasive and that other people influence what we think, feel and do.

Question 23

what are 3 core motivations that are discussed?

Answer 23

strive for mastery, seeking connectedness and “valuing me and mine”

Question 24

what does strive for mastery refer to?

Answer 24

people seek to understand and predict events in the social world in order to obtain rewards… eg understanding, control, seeking meaning

Question 25

what does seeking connectedness involve?

Answer 25

people seek support and acceptance from the groups they value, sense of belonging, relatedness and trust

Question 26

what does valuing me and mine refer to?

Answer 26

desire of people to see themselves and groups they are in, in a positive light, feelings of self enhancement and positive self esteem

Question 27

what are the 3 core processing principals?

Answer 27

conservatism, accessibility and processing depth

Question 28

what do the core precessing principals refer to?

Answer 28

how we process things

Question 29

core processing principal: conservatism, what does it suggest?

Answer 29

first impressions count, once we are entrenched in a belief it takes a lot to push us out of it… aka beliefs and opinions are slow to change

Question 30

core processing principal: accessibility, what does it suggest?

Answer 30

most accessible info has the most impact on thoughts, feelings and actions

Question 31

core processing principal: processing depth, what does it suggest? eg?

Answer 31

sometimes we process info deeply, sometimes we process it in a shallow way
eg. system 1 v system 2

Question 32

what is construct validity?

Answer 32

the extent to which manipulations and measures correspond to theoretical constructs

Question 33

what is internal validity?

Answer 33

the extent to which causal inference (IV impacts DV) is justified… aiming to omit extraneous variables

Question 34

what is external validity?

Answer 34

extent to which experimental results can be generalised to other people, places, times and settings

Question 35

how can construct validity be achieved?

Answer 35

selecting appropriate measures, using multiple measures

Question 36

how can internal validity be achieved?

Answer 36

manipulation and random assignment

Question 37

how can external validity be achieved?

Answer 37

appropriate sampling and research design