Social Psychology

Question 1

What is attitude?

Answer 1

A way of thinking or feeling about a target, often reflected in behavior

Question 2

What is attraction?

Answer 2

Process of being sexually attracted to another person

Question 3

What is social psychology?

Answer 3

Mainly concerned with understanding of how the presence of others affects our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

Question 4

What is the still face experiment?

Answer 4

An example of social referencing where the infant will look to its caregiver to determine the meaning of a situation

Question 5

What is the need to belong?

Answer 5

Natural impulse in humans to form social connections and be accepted by others

Question 6

What is the left hemisphere mainly responsible for?

Answer 6

Verbal processing (patients answer if word is flashed on the right side)

Question 7

What is the right hemisphere responsible for?

Answer 7

Not sight so patient can’t say what they see but they can draw it if flashed on the left side

Question 8

What does an easy personality in infants look like?

Answer 8

Happy, cheerful, regular sleepers, and quickly adapt

Question 9

What does a difficult infant look like?

Answer 9

Fussy, fearful, and intense reactions

Question 10

What does a slow to warmup infant look like?

Answer 10

Withdrawn, moody, slow to adapt

Question 11

What does an uncategorized infant look like?

Answer 11

No dominate tempermant, all depends on the day, shows a lot of different personality types

Question 12

What is conscience?

Answer 12

Cognitive, emotional, and social influences to act consistently with internal standards of conduct

Question 13

What is a hypothesis?

Answer 13

A possible explanation that can be tested through research

Question 14

What is blind to the research hypothesis?

Answer 14

When participants in research are not aware of what is being studied

Question 15

What is stereotyping?

Answer 15

Using information shortcuts about a group to effectively navigate social situations or make decisions

Ex: you wouldn’t be rough with old people since you consider them frail unlike your friend

Question 16

What is prejudice?

Answer 16

How a person feels about an individual based on their group membership

Ex: may not want to sit next to someone with tattoos based on a notion that people with tattoos are scary

Question 17

What is discrimination?

Answer 17

When a person is biased against an individual simple because of that person’s membership in a social category

Ex: Not hiring someone with a past in drug (acting on a stereotype)

Question 18

What is a stigmatized group?

Answer 18

A group that suffers from social disapproval based on some characteristic that sets them apart from the majority

Ex: homeless people

Question 19

What is a “culture of honor”?

Answer 19

Personal or family reputation is especially important

Question 20

What is a research confederate?

Answer 20

Person working with the researcher, posing as a participant or bystander

Question 21

What is a research participant?

Answer 21

Person being studied

Question 22

What is social influence?

Answer 22

When one person causes a change in attitude or behavior in another person, intentionally or unintentionally

Question 23

What is conformity?

Answer 23

Changing one’s attitude or behavior to match a perceived social norm

Question 24

What is obedience?

Answer 24

Responding to an order or command from another person in a position of authority

Question 25

What is reciprocity?

Answer 25

Giving something and getting something back

Question 26

What is social cognition?

Answer 26

The way people process and apply information about others

Question 27

What is social attribution?

Answer 27

The way a person explains the motives/behaviors of others

Question 28

What is the fundamental attribution error?

Answer 28

Tendency to emphasize another person’s personality traits when describing that person’s motives and behaviors, overlooking the influence of situational factors

Question 29

What is a descriptive norm?

Answer 29

Perception of what most people do in a given situation

Question 30

What is informational influence?

Answer 30

Conformity that results from a concern to act in a socially approved manner as determined by how others act

Question 31

What is a normative influence?

Answer 31

Conformity that results from a concern for what other people think of us

Question 32

What is effortful control?

Answer 32

Cognitive, emotional, and social influences to act consistently with internal standards of conflict

Question 33

What is gender schema?

Answer 33

Unintentional bias that women are not equal to men

Question 34

__ are afferent, whereas ___ are efferent

Answer 34

Sensory neurons, motor neurons

Question 35

What are the 4 principles of person perception?

Answer 35

1. Your reactions to others are determined by your perception of them, not who they really are
2. Your self-perception influences how you perceive others and how you act on your perceptions
3. Your goals in a particular situation determine the amount and kinds of information you collect about others
4. In every situation you evaluate people partly in terms of how you expect them to act

—Most people perceive others how the truly are, without personal bias

Question 36

What is the self-serving bias?

Answer 36

Attribution of one’s own behavior as resulting in character faults or internal failings

Question 37

On typical or average member of a category is referred to as ___

Answer 37

A prototype

Question 38

What is the Self-Fulfilling prophecy?

Answer 38

The placebo affect