What Is Social Psychology?

Question 1

Gordon Alport

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Studied how we are influenced by real/imagined/implied presences

Question 2

Social Perception

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How we form opinions or inferences

Question 3

Hindsight Bias

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“I knew it all along”

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Social neuroscience

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The relationship between social interaction and biological systems

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Behavioural Economics

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Study decisions

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Sociocultural Perspecitve

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Look at behaviour as a result of culture

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Individualistic Culture

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Focus on the self and independence

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Collectivist culture

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Focus on harmony and union

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Social Constructionism

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Giving meaning to things that would otherwise have no meaning

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Archival Research

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Old, pre-recorded behaviour

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Meta-analysis

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Combine data from other researchers

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Inner-rater reliability

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The bias of the researcher

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Event Recording/ Experience Sampling

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record on the go

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Cover Measures

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Factors not in participants control

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Internal Validity

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How accurate are the results?

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Experiment Blind

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Unaware of participant conditions

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Experiment/psychology realism

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So engaging that behaviour is natural

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External validity

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Having confidence in the same results occurring again

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Mundane Realism

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Can your results be applied to real places or situations?

Question 20

Field Experiment

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A natural experiment