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Social psychology is what?
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Scientific field that seeks to understand the nature and causes of individual behavior, feelings, thought in social situations
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What is social psych interested in?
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Abc
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What do the abc's stand for?
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Affect, behavior, cognitions
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The a in the abc model reefers to
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Affect: feelings, emotions, mood and valence
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The b in the abc model refers to
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Behavior: actions and intentions
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What does the c in the abc model stand for
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Cognitions: attitudes and bekiefs
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What does the s stand for?
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Social context: may be actual, perceived, and or conceived
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Social psychology seeks to understand the _________ of affect behavior and cognitions
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Causes
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What are the goals of social psychology?
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To understand human behavior:
1. Describe 2. Explain 3. Predict 4. Control |
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Social psychology consists of personal experience intuition and common sense. T/F
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False
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Inferential research offers
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Predictability: civatiation and cause and effect
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What is statistical sig?
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The likelihood that an observed relation or difference between two variables is not due to chance factors
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Probability level is what
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How likely it is that the results of the experiment occurred by chance and not due to the iv
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Correlational method is what type of inquiry?
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Scientific
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What is the purpose of correlational method?
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Determine whether a phenomenon is predictable from knowledge about another variable
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Inferential research offers
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Predictability: civatiation and cause and effect
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What is statistical sig?
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The likelihood that an observed relation or difference between two variables is not due to chance factors
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Probability level is what
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How likely it is that the results of the experiment occurred by chance and not due to the iv
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Correlational method is what type of inquiry?
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Scientific
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What is the purpose of correlational method?
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Determine whether a phenomenon is predictable from knowledge about another variable
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Inferential research offers
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Predictability: civatiation and cause and effect
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What is statistical sig?
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The likelihood that an observed relation or difference between two variables is not due to chance factors
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Probability level is what
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How likely it is that the results of the experiment occurred by chance and not due to the iv
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Correlational method is what type of inquiry?
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Scientific
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What is the purpose of correlational method?
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Determine whether a phenomenon is predictable from knowledge about another variable
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How many values do a variable have?
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1
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What does r mean?
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Strength and direction of a relationship between two variables which ranges from -1 to 1
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How can we make causal statements?
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Third variable and temporal precedence (when place cannot be reversed)
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What are these:
Useful for prediction, study phenomena that can't be done in the lab due to ethics, very realistic due to generalization |
What are advantages of correlational research?
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What are the disadvantages of correlational research?
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Less centric over extraneous variables, difficult to measure behavior as precisely and can seldom demonstrate cause and effect
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In an experimental research method the hypothesis must be what?
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Causal
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Iv must have at least how many levels
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2
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What elsr is individual difference variable called
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Participants.
Preexisting difference among participants |
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Between and within subjects is in what type of research?
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Expirimental (iv)
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What's an operational definition?
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How variables are measured or manipulated
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What is the definition of control?
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Holding variables constant with all the exact same stimuli
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What is a confound
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An extraneous variable that varies align eith the treatment
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How do we prevent confounds?
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Random assignment and keeping things constant
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What is the purpose of a Quasimodo experimental research
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Field setting or applied research
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What are disadvantages of a quasi?
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Unable to assign individuals randomly to experimental and control conditions
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What us the benefit if a factorial design?
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Can qualify circumstances under which iv will operate
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