MT #1

Question 1

Social Psych

Answer 1

Scientific study of how individual’s thoughts, feelings behaviours are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people

Question 2

attributions?

Answer 2

making sense of the causes of other people’s behaviour

Question 3

impression formation

Answer 3

combining and using information about a person to form an overall impression of them

Question 4

impression management

Answer 4

controlling how we appear to other people

Question 5

Some factors influencing our thoughts/feelings/behaviour

Answer 5

environmental factors (noise, temp, crowds), cultural factors, biological factors, actions of those around us, cognitive factors

Question 6

Drawbacks to relying on common sense

Answer 6

a. common sense ideas about often contradictory
b. fail to answer ‘why’ questions
c. are not formally tested

Question 7

Four general codes of conduct

Answer 7

a. minimize harm
b. confidentiality
c. informed consent.
d. debriefing

Question 8

6 basic emotions

Answer 8

happy, sad, fear, anger, surprise, disgust

Question 9

display rules

Answer 9

culturally bound expectations about how, when and where emotions should be displayed

Question 10

Some functions of eye contact:

Answer 10

regulate flow of speech/info, give feedback to the speaker, express emotions, for social control

Question 11

Some types of touch

Answer 11

Positive affect (affection, reassurance), playful, control, ritualistic, task-related (and negative or aggressive)

Question 12

Some features of paralanguage

Answer 12

errors, rate of speech, delays, pitch, repetition

Question 13

Kelley’s Covariation Theory (3 sources of info that we focus on to make attributions internal vs external)

Answer 13

1. Consensus (to what extent other people behave in the same way)
2. Distinctiveness (extent to which person behaves this way to everyone)
3. Consistency (extent to which person always behaves this way)

Question 14

internal attribution when?

Answer 14

consensus is low, distinctiveness is low, consistency is high,

Question 15

external attribution when

Answer 15

consensus is high, distinctiveness is high, consistency is high

Question 16

more likely to make internal attribution about strangers when:

Answer 16

behaviour is freely chosen, socially undesirable (norm violation), produces non common effects

Question 17

Some types of attribution errors

Answer 17

• fundamental attribution bias
• actor observer effect
• self-serving bias
• victim blaming (just world hypothesis?)

Question 18

Some explanations for self-serving bias?

Answer 18

self-presentation strategy, we expect ourselves to succeed, maintenance of self-esteem

Question 19

3 views of ppl as social cogs?

Answer 19

1. naive scientists, use reason and logic
2. cognitive misers, lazy thinkers
3. motivated tacticians: our motivations dictate which strategies we use

Question 20

3 components to an attitude

Answer 20

affective component
behavioural component
cognitive component

Question 21

Some reasons for attitudes:

Answer 21

instrumental function, help us hold knowledge about the world, self-esteem by holding attitudes about ourselves and others, self-expression

Question 22

Theory of planned behaviour:

Answer 22

our attitudes influence our intentions to engage in a behaviour, not the behaviour directly

Question 23

What determines a person’s intentions?

Answer 23

1. attitudes towards a behaviour
2. subjective norms (what do we think other ppl will think/feel?)
3. perceived behavioural control