Module Four

Question 1

What is the Stanford prison experiment?

Answer 1

Classic social psychology experiment

Question 2

What are theoretical perspectives?

Answer 2

• Psychoanalytic Theories
• Behavioural Theories
• Cognitive Theories

Question 3

Who was dubbed as the father of psychoanalytic theories?

Answer 3

Sigmund Freud

Question 4

What is the Behavioural Theory?

Answer 4

where our responses to environmental stimuli shape our behaviour and that all behaviour is acquired through conditioning

Question 5

What are the two types of conditioning?

Answer 5

Classical

Operant

Question 6

What did Pavlov do?

Answer 6

Classical conditioning with dogs

Question 7

What did Piaget believe?

Answer 7

That our knowledge about the world grows in stages

Question 8

What are the stages of Piaget’s worldview model?

Answer 8

• Sensorimotor: object is not there if hidden (0-2)
• Preoperational: everyone sees from their own point of view (0-7)
• Concrete Operational: more water in a taller glass than a wider one (7-11)
• Formal Operational: Abstract thought process (11+)

Question 9

What did Skinner do?

Answer 9

In 1948 he did operant conditioning with the Skinner box and rats

Question 10

Who composed “Little Albert”?

Answer 10

Watson

Question 11

What is the human mind often compared to?

Answer 11

A computer

Question 12

What is information processing?

Answer 12

Internal processing systems transform or alter information we take in from our environment and we respond accordingly

Question 13

What are the two types of studies?

Answer 13

Laboratory

Field

Question 14

What is the independent variable?

Answer 14

What the researcher is manipulating

Question 15

What is the dependent variable?

Answer 15

The effect of the independent variable

Question 16

What studies answer the cause and effect questions?

Answer 16

Experimental studies

Question 17

Who was Norman Triplett?

Answer 17

Conducted what is known to be the first sport specific social psychology experiment

Question 18

What is social influence?

Answer 18

Real or imagined pressure to change ones behaviour

Question 19

What are the three responses to group pressure?

Answer 19

• conformity
• independence
• Anticonformity

Question 20

What are the sources of power?

Answer 20

• Legitimate Power
• Expert Power
• Reward Power
• Coercive Power
• Referent Power

Question 21

What type of power is based on ones socially sanctioned claim to a position or role that gives them the right to require and demand compliance?

Answer 21

Legitimate Power

Question 22

What is expert power?

Answer 22

Derived from subordinates assumptions that the power holder possesses superior skills and abilities

Question 23

What is reward power?

Answer 23

Having control over the distribution of rewards given to individuals

Question 24

What kind of power allows the ability to punish or threaten others who do not comply with demands or requests?

Answer 24

Coercive Power

Question 25

What kind of power is based on ones identification with, attraction to, or respect for the power holder?

Answer 25

Referent Power

Question 26

What are the types of social support?

Answer 26

• Instrumental
• Emotional
• Informational
• Companionship
• Validation

Question 27

What is social psychology?

Answer 27

Scientific study of how people influence each other and other factors that affect social behaviour