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What is social influence?

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What is social psychology?

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Social psychology is not specifically concerned with social situations as much as…. what?

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What is construal?

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What is “naive realism”, a term coined by Lee Ross? How does this construal appear in conflict negotiations, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

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What is folk wisdom/common sense? Does it work well with the objectives of social psychology? Why or why not?

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How is social psychology similar to sociology? How do the two subjects differ?

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How is social psychology similar to personality psychology? How do the two subjects differ?

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What is the fundamental attribution error?

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Why do blame the victims of violence? What is the link between victim-blaming and fundamental attribution error?

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What influences how cooperative people be - their personalities or the nature of their social situation?

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What is the social situation? Why is it deemed a powerful thing?

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What is behaviorism? How would behaviorists scrutinize the social situation?

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What is Gestalt Psychology? How would gestalt psychologists scrutinize the social situation?

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What are the two basic human motives that construals stem from?

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What is the self-esteem approach and how do we use it to justify past behavior? How do we use the self-esteem approach to self-justify and make sense of our suffering?

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What is social cognition?

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What is the self-fulfilling prophecy?

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How can expectations about the social world influence our behavior?

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What is hindsight bias? Why is it a relevant bias to keep in mind when trying to critique research in social psychology?

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What is a theory and what is a hypothesis? How do the two differ?

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What is the operational definition?

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*May not include - What are the different ways in which researchers may come up with hypotheses or study ideas?

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What is the observational method? What kind of research is it and what kinds of questions does it attempt to answer?

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What is ethnography?

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How does Pepler and Craig’s unobtrusive method for observational research work?

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Why is it important for researchers to clearly define behaviors of interest when conducting observational research?

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What is interjudge (ie. interrater) reliability? How do we attempt to establish it in observational research?

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What is archival analysis? Why is it a powerful observational research tool?

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How has archival analysis helped us in understanding the link between media depiction of women and men and body image?

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What is the correlational method? What kind of research is it and what kinds of questions does it attempt to answer?

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What is a correlation coefficient?

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What are surveys?

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What are some advantages of surveys in conducting correlational research?

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What is random selection?

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What are limits of correlational research?

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When there is a relationship between two variables, what are the three different ways that causation could take place?

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What are the potential dangers of inferring causality from correlations? Please use an example.

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What is the experimental method? What kind of research is it and what kinds of question does it attempt to answer?

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How did Latané and Darley establish causality in their research about bystanders?

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What is the independent variable? What is the dependent variable?

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What is internal validity? How did Latané and Darley ensure internal validity in their bystander research?

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What is random assignment?

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What is the probability level (p-value)? Why is it important in experimental research?

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What is external validity? Why is it important?

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How do researchers ensure generalizability across situation?

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Why is generalizability across situations important?

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What is psychological realism? What are cover stories?

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Why is generalizability across people important?

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How can researchers ensure generalizability across people? Why is this not always easy to do?

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What is field research/experiments? Why are they important?

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What are some disadvantages of field research that can mitigated by laboratory experiment? What are some disadvantages of laboratory experiments that can be mitigated by field research?

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What is the basic dilemma of the social psychologist?

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What is replication? Why is it important in establishing theories within the field?

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What are meta-analyses? Why are they important when conducting research in the field?

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What is basic research?

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What is applied research?

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What is cross-cultural research? Why is it important to conduct?

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What are some issues in conducting cross-cultural research?

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What is social neuroscience? Why is it an important area of research?

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What is informed consent? Why is not always possible (ie. why do researchers need to use deception?

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What are the ethical principles of psychologists in the conduct of research?

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What is debriefing? Why is it important?

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