Week 1: Chapter 1 Flashcards
Does social psychology or sociology focus more on the individual and their influence?
Social psychology
Social Psychology is the study of:
- Social _____
- Social _____
- Social _____
Thinking; Influence; Relations
One big idea is Social Psychology is that we construct our ______ ______
social reality
There may be an objective reality out there, but we always view it through the lens of our own ______ and ______
Beliefs; Values
Our instant ________ shape our fear, impressions, and relationships
intuitions
Social _________ shapes our behaviours
influence
Personal attitudes and __________ also shape our behaviour
dispositions
Social Behaviour is _________ rooted
biologically
__________ Cognition: The view that cognition and mental processes arise from the interaction of our body and the world around us
Embodied.
Systematic _________ and e_________ help us clean the lens through which we see reality
observation and experimentation
Errors in judging the future’s foreseeability and in remembering our past combine to create _______ bias
hindsight
Predictions give ________ to research
direction
_______ are ideas that summarise and explain facts and that also imply testable predictions
theories
A good theory summarises many _________ and makes clear _________
observations; predictions
Do social psychologists use experimental or field research more?
Experimental nearly 3/4 of the time
What are the two main ingredients of every Social Psychology experiment?
Control; Random assignment
________ realism: Degree to which an experiment is superficially similar to everyday life
Mundane
________ realism: Degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants
Experimental
__________ involves immersing yourself in the participants’ world so that you can observe it from within and discover how it operates
Ethnography
_______ analysis: A type of analysis in which researchers identify the main themes and sub themes within a set of data
Thematic
_________: The situation that occurs when different types of data or research methods point to the same conclusions
Triangulation
________ assumes that there is a social reality that is objective and can be observed and measured
Positivism:
______ realism: believes in a seperate reality that can be measured, but recognise that our perceptions and behaviours interact with that reality
Social
Social _________: The view that truth claims are socially created or constructed
Constructivism
What are the three main epistemological positions?
Positivism; Social Realism; Social Constructivism
_______ analysis: Method of analysis in which researchers explore how meaning is constructed through words and ideas
Discourse
How we perceive the world is know as social ________.
thinking
Culture, groups, and persuasion are all social _________
influence
prejudice, aggression, and attraction are all social ________
Relations
When groups come together and form an opinion together it is known as a _________ mind
collective
The first social psychological experiment was about social _________
facilitation
In the 1960’s - 1970’s Social Psychology had a crisis as it seemed overly ___________ and overly ___________
reductionist; positivistic
________ __: Tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one’s ability to have foreseen what would happen
Hindsight bias
_________ realism: Striving for similarity of everyday situations
mundane
There is higher _______ validity and lower ______ validity when an experiment is in a naturalistic setting
External; Internal
__________ validity: Results obtained due to manipulation of IV
Internal
_________ validity - ability to generalise to the ‘real’ world
external
Social ________ - social world is product of social and historically situation practices
constructionism
__________: a set of beliefs and practices that identify a specific social group and distinguish it from another
Culture
Social psychology is Social _____: Theory and data derive from a particular cultural backround
bound
Social psychology is Social _____: theories and data not tested beyond host or dominant culture
blind
_______ __________ is the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another
Social Psychology
__________: reducing behaviour to the individual level, and ignoring the social context
Reductionism
One major rule of social psychology is that we ________ our social psychology
construct
Social __________’s shape our behaviour
Influences
Is mundane realism wanted in the laboratory setting?
Yes, similar to everyday situations
Is experimental realise wanted in laboratory or naturalistic settings?
Experimental settings
Do experiments have low or high EXTERNAL validity?
Low
