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is the scientific study of the way in which people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people: parents, friends, employers, teachers, strangers— indeed, by the entire social situation
Social psychology
According to Allport:
- the influence of reference persons (e.g., our parents) whose expectations might influence our behavior
- much of our behavior is shaped by social roles and cultural norms.
Imagined presence
Implied presence-
- a method in which the researcher deliberately introduces some change into a setting to examine the consequences of that change.
Experiment
- a true randomized experiment conducted in a natural setting. Meaning, an experiment is done in the every day (i.e. real life) environment of the participants. The experimenter still manipulates the independent variable, but in a real-life setting (so cannot really control extraneous variables).
Field Experiment-
a study, conducted in the laboratory, in which the researcher deliberately introduces some change into a setting, while holding all other factors constant, to examine the consequences of that change. Laboratory not necessarily mean the physical laboratory but a place the researcher decided to conduct the experiment at what time, with which participants, in what circumstances, and using a standardized procedure
Laboratory Experiment-
-he published his first theoretical paper in social psychology on informal social communication and the process, via social comparison, of establishing the correctness of one’s beliefs (1950)
- he then published the work for which he is best known, his theory of cognitive dissonance (1957) which marked the end of his interest in social psychology and shifted, first to the visual system and perception, then to archaeology and the history of religion.
- his theory of cognitive dissonance dictated
the research agenda in social psychology during the 1960s and 1970s
Leon Festinger (1919-1990)
- an application of principles of cognitive psychology to the area of social psychology
How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions
Social Cognition
If the goal is to describe what a particular group of people or type of behavior is like, the _____is very helpful. This is the technique whereby a researcher observes people and records measurements or impressions of their behavior.
observational method
____, two variables are systematically measured, and the relationship between them—how much you can predict one from the other—is assessed
correlational method
The only way to determine causal relationships is with the_____ Here, the researcher systematically orchestrates the event so that people experience it in one way or another way . The ____ is the method of choice in most social psychological research, because it allows the experimenter to make causal inferences.
experimental method.
The tendency to overestimate the extent to which other people’s behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors, and to underestimate the role of situational factors is called the _____
fundamental attribution error,
Leon Festinger’s ____ holds that people learn about their own abilities and attitudes by comparing themselves to others.
social comparison theory
similar background in the area in question. If your goal is to know what excellence is—the top level to which you can aspire—you are likely to engage in ____, which is comparing yourself to people who are better than you are with regard to a particular trait or ability. If our goal is to feel good about ourselves and boost our egos, then we are better off engaging in ____—comparing ourselves to people who are worse than we are with regard to a particular trait or ability.
upward social comparison
downward social comparison
_____is the attempt by people to get others to see them the way they want to be seen. Just as politicians try to put the best possible spin on their actions and manage the impressions others have of them, so do we in our everyday lives.
People have many different impression management strategies (Jones & Pittman, 1982). One is ____—using flattery or praise to make yourself likable to another, often a person of higher status
Impression management
ingratiation
people create obstacles and excuses for themselves so that if they do poorly on a task, they can avoid blaming themselves. There are two major ways in which people _____. In its more extreme form, called ____, people act in ways that reduce the likelihood that they will succeed on a task so that if they fail, they can blame it on the obstacles they created rather than on their lack of ability. The second type, called ____ is less extreme. Rather than creating obstacles to success, people devise ready-made excuses in case they fail.
self-handicap
behavioral self-handicapping
reported self-handicapping,
is defined as peoples evaluations of their own self-worth—that is, the extent to which they view themselves as good, competent, and decent.
Self-esteem