Test 1 Additional Study Guide Flashcards
Which of the following allows a researcher to make a cause effect conclusion?
experiment
According to lecture, what is a micro aggression?
a subtle insult against you based on your group membership.
Can race or gender be a true independent variable?
No.
How does our self-concept (how we see ourselves) relate to our self-esteem (how we feel about ourselves)?
self-concept influences self-esteem and self-esteem influences self-concept.
What’s the difference between social comparison and reverse comparison?
in social comparison, one judges oneself; in reverse comparison, one judges another.
Suppose that Linus places Beyonce in a personal top-ten list of female performers. Suppose that Linus estimates that 40% of teens would agree with him, bit its actually only 30%. Which of the following best applies to this scenario?
false-conscensus affect
suppose Leena scored the winning basket for her high school team one night. on the ride home, Leena explained her performance to herself by thinking she was a great athlete who worked hard. Which of the following best applies to this scenario?
attributional self-serving bias
Ch. 2 had a section titled, “Development of the Social Self,” with four subheadings indicating four influences on ones self-concept. Which of the following is NOT one of the four subheadings?
conditioning principles
According to research on the impact bias, people tend to ______ the enduring impact of emotion-causing events.
Overestimate
According to Ch.2, we typically show immune neglect, which means we tend to neglect or underestimate which of the following?
our ability to rationalize and emotionally recover from bad things.
According to WIAW, there are four main factors that can cause someone to use a particular label. List three of those factors.
Peer pressure, pleasing the audience, and lack of information, and anti-political correctness.
Based on “I’m a Parb and so are you,” are social psychology instructors at risk of committing bias?
yes.
Based on “The Big One,” what is the other name for the fundamental attribution error?
correspondence bias
Near the end of “The Big One,” an example was discussed for how we think someone is happy if they are smiling. Although happiness is one possible reason for smiling, what was another possible reason mentioned.
because we smiled at them first.
In “The Big One,” there was a story about a woman named J who tailgated another driver. J admitted to driving recklessly, but what was another reason for her driving behavior?
she was trying to reach her family quickly because someone there had a medical emergency.
To belong to PARBS anonymous, one must take 6 pledges. Which of the following is NOT one of those pledges?
I accept that I have many biases in how i see others and the world.
According to lecture, the naturalistic fallacy refers to which of the following tendencies? (everyone else so me too)
believing something because most everyone else does.
According to the media-violence article, there is high agreement among multiple groups of experts…
that on-screen media violence has harmful effects on children and adolescents.
According to the media-violence article, there is scientific consensus that watching media violence causes aggression. Did the others believe that this consensus should directly translate into public policy that restricts the production of such media?
No - they said it should NOT translate in that way.
According to the common-sense worksheet, a person with low self-esteem would prefer to hang out with people who dislike him/her. What was the theory to explain this finding?
self-verification theory.
Cognitive dissonance is a state of discomfort caused by…
inconsistency of incoming information and established beliefs.
According to lecture, there are three main areas covered in our social psychology textbook. Name all three.
social thinking, social relations, and social influence.
______ can help in treatment of depression.
attribution theory.
Lecture discussed the person-situation debate. What question was being debated and what were the two sides?
Question: Is personality stable and enduring over time?
Side 1: personality psychologists say yes. The “person” is responsible for the behaviors.
Side 2: social psychologists say no. The “situation” is responsible for the behaviors.
Answer: a little…
