Social Psychology Chapter 1

Question 1

What is the definition of social psychology?

Answer 1

How we view and affect one another.

Question 2

Social psychology lies at psychology’s boundary with which other science?

Answer 2

Sociology

Question 3

Social psychology focuses more/less on individuals than sociology.

Answer 3

More

Question 4

Social psychology focuses more/less on individuals’ differences.

Answer 4

Less

Question 5

Social psychology focuses more/less on how individuals, in general, view and affect one another.

Answer 5

More

Question 6

What three components make up social psychology?

Answer 6

Social Thinking, Social Influence, Social Relations

Question 7

What four components make up ‘Social thinking’?

Answer 7

Perception, Belief, Judgement, Attitude

Question 8

What four components make up ‘Social influence’?

Answer 8

Culture, Pressure to conform, Persuasion, Groups of people

Question 9

What four components make up ‘Social relations’?

Answer 9

Prejudice, Aggression, Attraction and intimacy, Helping

Question 10

Social psychology’s 8 big ideas:

We construct…

Answer 10

Our social reality

Question 11

Social psychology’s 8 big ideas:

Our social intuitions are…

Answer 11

Powerful, sometimes perilous

Question 12

Social psychology’s 8 big ideas:

What shapes behavior?

Answer 12

Attitudes, Social influence, Dispositions

Question 13

How we do social psychology

What is step 1 in research?

Answer 13

Psychologists propose theories

Question 14

How we do social psychology

What is step 2 in research?

Answer 14

Imply testable hypotheses and practical predictions

Question 15

How we do social psychology

What is step 3 in research?

Answer 15

Correlational research

Question 16

How we do social psychology

What is step 4 in research?

Answer 16

Conduct experiments

Question 17

How we do social psychology

What is step 5 in research?

Answer 17

Practical applications

Question 18

What is a theory?

Answer 18

Explanations and predictions of observed events

Question 19

What is an hypothesis?

Answer 19

A testable prediction

Question 20

What is correlational research?

Answer 20

Observation of events and their correlation

Question 21

What type of survey sample best fits research on an entire population?

Answer 21

A random sample

Question 22

What are the pitfalls of survey research?

Answer 22

1. Samples can be unrepresentative
2. The order of questions
3. Response options
4. Wording of questions

Question 23

What is the independent variable?

Answer 23

The factor which is manipulated

Question 24

What is the dependent variable?

Answer 24

The result of the independent variable

Question 25

What is random assignment?

Answer 25

People are randomly assigned either to a experimental or a controlled condition

Question 26

What is mundane realism?

Answer 26

How similar an experiment is to everyday life

Question 27

What is experimental realism?

Answer 27

How much an experiment involves the participants

Question 28

What is deception?

Answer 28

Misleading participants about the purpose of the study

Question 29

What are demand characteristics?

Answer 29

Cues in an experiment that makes participants behave as they believe they should

Question 30

Why should laboratory research be treated with caution?

Answer 30

It is hard to generalize from the experiment to real life

Question 31

What is the advantage of correlational research?

Answer 31

It uses real world settings

Question 32

What is the advantage of experimental research?

Answer 32

Can control variables and use random assignment

Question 33

What is the disadvantage of correlational research?

Answer 33

Causation is often ambiguous

Question 34

What is the disadvantage of experimental research?

Answer 34

Some variables cannot be studied