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Introduction to Social Psychology Flashcards

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What is social psychology?

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The scientific study of the causes and consequences of people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions, regarding themselves and other people.

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What is the first assumption of the Four Core Assumptions of Social Psychology?

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Behaviour is a joint product of the person and the situation.

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What is the second assumption of the Four Core Assumptions of Social Psychology?

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Behaviour depends on a socially constructed view of reality

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What is the third assumption of the Four Core Assumptions of Social Psychology?

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Behaviour is strongly influenced by our social cognition

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What is the fourth assumption of the Four Core Assumptions of Social Psychology?

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The best way to understand social behaviour is to use the scientific method

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What is the Attribution theory?

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People act as intuitive scientists when they observe other people’s behaviour and infer explanations as to why those people acted the way they did

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What is Causal Attribution?

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Explanations of why an individual engaged in a particular action

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What is Cultural Knowledge?

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A vast storage of information, accumulated within a culture, that explains how the world works and why things happen as they do

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What is a priori causal theory?

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Preexisting causal theories acquired from one;s culture or on other potential explanations that are easily brought to mind

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Why can explanations for behaviour be misleading?

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  • people often do not tell the truth
  • People often do not know what they think they know
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What is a cognitive miser?

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The human tendency to avoid expending effort and cognitive resources when thinking and prefer seizing on quick and easy answers to questions

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What is a major pitfall in relying on intuitive observation?

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Our observation comes from our unique and limited perspective

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Can our own psychological inferences be biased?

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Almost always yes

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What is a theory?

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An explanation for how and why variables are related to each other

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What is the correlational method?

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Research in which two or more variables are measured and compared to determine to what extent, if any, they are associated

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What is the Experimental Method?

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A study in which a researcher manipulates a variable, measures possible effects on another variable, and tries to hold all other variables constant

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What is internal validity?

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A judgment that, for a particular experiment, it is possible to conclude that the manipulated independent variable caused the change in the measured dependent variable

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What is a stereotype threat?

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If an individual is a member of a group for which there is a stereotype, and if the individual thinks of the stereotype, they become threatened that they might confirm the stereotype

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What are the benefits of random assignment?

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-Eliminates a causal sequence problem by design
- Holds other variables constant, removes a third-variable problem
- Controls for individual differences

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What is field research?

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Research that occurs outside of the laboratory

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What is Quasi-experimental designs?

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Research in which groups of participants are compared on some dependent variable, but - for some practical or ethical reasons - the groups are not formed on the basis of random assignment

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What is an operational definition?

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A specific, concrete method of measuring or manipulating a conceptual variable

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What is construct validity?

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The degree to which the dependent measure assesses what it intends to assess or the manipulation manipulates what it intends to manipulate

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What is Cofound?

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A variable other than the conceptual variable intended to be manipulated that may be responsible for the effect on the dependent variable, making alternative explanations possible

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What is conceptual replication?

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The repetition of a study with different operationalizations of the crucial variables but yielding similar results

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What is External validity?

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The judgment that a research finding can be generalized to other people, in other settings, or at other times

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What is Direct Replication?

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The process of reproducing a scientific finding by repeating the same methods and measures used in the original research paper

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What is meta-analysis?

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Process of analyzing data across many related studies to determine the strength and reliability of a finding

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How much of the population does the WEIRD take up?

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12%

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Social Psychology (6 decks)

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