Social T10

Question 1

What assumption can we make about Maxine, who feels like being a mother, someone who enjoys football and wine, is connected?

Answer 1

Maxine has an interdependent self-construal (and not social identity), which is typical in a collectivist culture

Question 2

Miller (1984) Culture and the development of everyday social explanation what is the key finding?

Answer 2

As they grew older, American children were found by Miller (1984) to place increasing reliance upon disposition as an explanation of events observed. Hindu children of India, by contrast, based their explanations more on situations.

Question 3

moderation

Answer 3

is part of the interaction effect and means that the effect of a variable on the outcome is changed by a third variable contact between groups * equal structures within groups = prejudice?

Question 4

Replication

Answer 4

direct/exact: study is repeated as exactly as possible → way to verify the validity of research results or methods
BUT: realistically impossible
conceptual: ability to replicate the results after changing the methods used so that the results can be applied generally

Question 5

What are three characteristics of an individualist (as opposed to collectivist) culture?

Answer 5

Directness, uniqueness, promotion of one’s own goals (Markus, Kitayama 1991) p.30/31

Question 6

What is the relationship between basic and applied research in social psychology?

Answer 6

Findings from basic research can be subsequently applied to a real-world problem of interest or concern to society in applied research.

Question 7

What is the replication crisis?

Answer 7

The discovery that findings that were long thought to be robust in social psychology (and other branches of psychology) have been shown to be difficult to reproduce in replication studies. (ego depletion, social priming)

Question 8

On what do individualist cultures focus on to what effect on relationships?

Answer 8

individuality of each person → social relationships are voluntary

Question 9

What are collectivist cultures characterised by?

Answer 9

social interactions with each other, social beings who are inseparably connected to others

Question 10

Which are valued aspects of individualist cultures?

Answer 10

• uniqueness
• expressing one’s own views
• promotion of one’s own goals
• directness

Question 11

What implication does the characterisation of collectivist cultures have on relationships?

Answer 11

social interactions are involuntary and vital as they make the person what they are

Question 12

What is valued in collectivist cultures?

Answer 12

1. belonging
2. being aware of other’s views
3. indirectness