Test 2 Part 4

Question 1

Need to belong study procedure

Answer 1

200 first year university students filled out a biweekly survey that measured self esteem, quality of social bonds and health problems

Question 2

Quality of social bonds includes

Answer 2

Social stress and number of friends

Question 3

Health problems includes

Answer 3

Concrete health related behaviors such as classes missed due to illness and visits to the doctor

Question 4

Need to belong study results

Answer 4

Lower self esteem students missed 4.6 more classes and visited the doctor 1.6 times more

Question 5

Why these results

Answer 5

Lower social stress and more friends led to higher self esteem and less health problems

Question 6

When people are lonely or are excluded they have

Answer 6

Poorer metal and physical health, decreased lifespan after breast cancer

Question 7

How to counteract loneliness

Answer 7

Just 1 friend is often enough

Question 8

Marriage and loneliness

Answer 8

Can have health benefits of counteracting loneliness only if they are healthy.

Question 9

Health benefits of a happy marriage

Answer 9

Women are 50% more lively and men are 250% to die from heart disease, cancer, cirrhosis of the liver and other preventable diseases

Question 10

Social support is beneficial to … because of

Answer 10

Cardiovascular, endocrine and immune systems, stress buffering, affective states and health promoting behavior

Question 11

Social psychology

Answer 11

Is the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to others (or the imagined presence of others)

Question 12

Social psychologists

Answer 12

Use scientific methods to study social behavior (empirical approach)

Question 13

Social psychology explains

Answer 13

Why the same person will act differently in different situations

Question 14

Major themes in social psychology

Answer 14

Social thinking, social influence, social relations

Question 15

Social psychologists study

Answer 15

How we think about situations and how the situations affect us and how we affect one another through social interactions

Question 16

Topics of social thinking

Answer 16

Attributions and attitudes and attitude change

Question 17

Attributions

Answer 17

Fundamental attribution error

Question 18

Attitudes and attitude change

Answer 18

Central and peripheral route to persuasion, cognitive dissonance theory

Question 19

Attributions are

Answer 19

The reasons we provide for why others do what they do

Question 20

Attribution theory

Answer 20

People are motivated to explain their own and other people’s behavior by attributing causes of that behavior to a situation of a disposition

Question 21

2 types of attributions

Answer 21

External (situational) and internal (dispositional)

Question 22

Situational attributions

Answer 22

Something in the situation or environment caused the behavior

Question 23

Dispositional attributions

Answer 23

Something is the person (traits or motive) caused the behavior

Question 24

Attributions example

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Homelessness. Internal their lazy or lack ability. External insufficient support systems

Question 25

Attributions and social economic effects

Answer 25

Often what drives politicians. Right is more internal and left is more external

Question 26

Fundamental attribution error

Answer 26

The tendency, when analyzing others’ behavior to over estimate the influence of personal traits and underestimate the effect of the situation
Disposition over situation

Question 27

Attributions and actors

Answer 27

External-This guy is an actor playing a role

Internal-This guy is a jerk

Question 28

Fundamental attribution error procedure

Answer 28

You’re speaking to a women who is acting very friendly or cold. Your either told she has been told to act this way, or she is responding naturally. Then participants were asked how friendly she was

Question 29

Fundamental attribution error results

Answer 29

They found that people who were told she was acting and those who told it was genuine both reported her personality trait was how she acted

Question 30

The quiz game proceedure

Answer 30

People were either the audience, the host, or the participant. The host got to make up 10 random questions to ask the participant. At the end all people were asked who was smarter

Question 31

The quiz game results

Answer 31

The participant got a 42/100, and the host got a 82/100 for intelligence. The host reported himself as not as smart

Question 32

The quiz game attributions

Answer 32

Internal-The host is a genius at work

External-The host chose all the questions

Question 33

Exception to the FAE

Answer 33

We’re not prone to the fundamental attribution error when explaining our own behavior.

Question 34

Self serving bias

Answer 34

Applies to the individual. Habits of thinking that make us feel good about ourselves

Question 35

Self serving attribution

Answer 35

We think our behavior is due to the situation only when it helps us
We take credit for our successes by making personal internal attributions

Question 36

Self serving attributions failure

Answer 36

We deflect of explain away our failures by making situational external attributions

Question 37

Self serving attributions example

Answer 37

I passed because I am smart, I failed because the prof is bad

Question 38

Explaining negative behavior

Answer 38

Other people do things because of their personality-He’s a jerk
We do things because of the situation-I’m having a bad day

Question 39

Fundamental attribution error for happy couples

Answer 39

Make situational explanation’s for negative behavior

Make dispositional attributions for positive behavior

Question 40

Fundamental attribution error for unhappy couples

Answer 40

Make dispositional explanation’s for negative behavior

Make situational attributions for positive behavior

Question 41

What should be done in response to the FAE

Answer 41

Research shows that we make the fundamental attribution error automatically, but once you’re aware of it, you can consciously compensate