Social Psychology

Question 1

Social Psychology

Answer 1

Attempt to understand, explain, and predict how the thoughts, feelings and actions of someone are perceived.

Question 2

Cognitive Perspective

Answer 2

Emphasis on how perception affects behaviour.

Question 3

Learning Perspective

Answer 3

Emphasis on principles of reinforcement and imitations.

Question 4

Motivational Perspective

Answer 4

Emphasis on basic human needs.

Question 5

Biological Perspective

Answer 5

Emphasis on evolutionary past and genetic disposition.

Question 6

Cultural Perspective

Answer 6

Emphasis on how culture affects social behaviour.

Question 7

Intra - Personal Level

Answer 7

What goes on in a person.

Question 8

Inter - Personal Level

Answer 8

Interactions between two people.

Question 9

Inter - Group Level

Answer 9

Based on group level behaviour

Question 10

Societal Level

Answer 10

Cultural effects on behaviour.

Question 11

Freud

Answer 11

The basic human has drives and wants that are all part of our subconscious.

Question 12

ID

Answer 12

Contains the most basic urges (eat, drink, sleep)

Question 13

EGO

Answer 13

Works on reality principle

Question 14

SUPEREGO

Answer 14

Represents internalised rules of parents and society.

Question 15

Displacement

Answer 15

Impulses redirected into a safer course.

Question 16

Reaction Formation

Answer 16

Original wish is supplemented with the opposite.

Question 17

Projection

Answer 17

Urges are projected onto others.

Question 18

Isolation

Answer 18

Awareness of memories but not emotions.

Question 19

Theory of Planned Behaviour

Answer 19

1. When we have a positive attitude towards the behaviour.
2. When norms support our attitudes.
3. When the behaviour is under our control.

Question 20

Cognitive Dissonance

Answer 20

Inconsistency between attitudes and behaviour.

Question 21

Attribution

Answer 21

People’s perception of the causes of an event affects what they do and how they feel.

Question 22

Likert Scale

Answer 22

What is the single most important cause of this behaviour?

Question 23

Pessimistic Style

Answer 23

Tend to question and doubt themselves.

Question 24

Optimistic Style

Answer 24

Accepting something as it is. Beyond one’s control.

Question 25

Stockholm Syndrome

Answer 25

How someone views you determines your life.

Question 26

Actor Observer Effect

Answer 26

People tend to attribute the cause of their own actions to EXTERNAL factors and the cause of someone else’s actions to INTERNAL factors.

Question 27

Self - Serving Bias

Answer 27

People take credit for their successes but not their failure.

Question 28

Proximity and Propinquity

Answer 28

Repeated exposure to any stimulus makes it more appealing.

Question 29

Emotional Arousal

Answer 29

People who are emotionally aroused rate others as more attractive.

Question 30

Men

Answer 30

Physical attractiveness of potential partners.

Question 31

Women

Answer 31

Psychological characteristics of potential partners.

Question 32

Loneliness

Answer 32

Lonely people can sometimes feel distressed, bored or even depressed.

Question 33

Social Facilitation

Answer 33

How the physical presence of others influence our behaviour.

Question 34

Driver Theory of Facilitation

Answer 34

If we are good at something the presence of someone will aid us, but if we are just learning someone else will make us nervous.

Question 35

Diffusion of Responsibility

Answer 35

The idea that as a group size increases individual responsibility decreases.

Question 36

Deindividuation

Answer 36

Presence of other people can have bizarre or negative effects.

Question 37

Conformity

Answer 37

People will go along with things, even if it is obvious what the right answer is.

Question 38

Obedience

Answer 38

How far would someone go if they were ordered to do so?

Question 39

Prejudice

Answer 39

We are all prejudiced in some way

Question 40

Authoritarian Personality

Answer 40

Associated with a conventional system in which ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ are clear and distinct.

Question 41

Realistic Conflict Theory

Answer 41

If there is a conflict of interest between two groups the relations between groups will be hostile.

Question 42

Minimal Group Paradigm

Answer 42

A scientific attempt to create an empty environment where researchers could then systemically add variables that would elicit discrimination.