Social Psychology Chapter 1

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social psychology

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scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another

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social neuroscience

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an integration of biological and social perspectives that explores the neural and psychological bases of social and emotional behaviors

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culture

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the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next

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social representations

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socially shared beliefs-widely held ideas and values, including our assumptions and cultural ideologies; help make sense of our world

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hindsight bias

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tendency to exaggerate on'es ability to foreseeon how something turned out after learning an outcome

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When are experiments obvious?

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After the facts are known.

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theory

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an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events

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hypothesis

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testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events

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Three purposes of hypotheses

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allow us to test a theory by suggesting how we might try to falsify it; give direction to research; practical

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field research

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research done in natural, real-life settings outside the laboratory

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correlational research

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study of the natrually occurring relationships among variables

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experimentla research

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studies that seed clues to cause-effect relationships by manipulating one ore more independent variables while holding others constant (controlling them)

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random sample

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survye procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion

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What are ways that surveys can be manipulated?

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unrepresentive samples, order of questions, response options, wording of questions

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independent variable

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fact that research manipulates

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dependent variable

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variable being measured; depends on manipulations of the independent variable

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Two important parts of experiment

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control; random assignment

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random assignment

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process of assigning participants to conditions of experiment such that all persons have same chance of being in a give condtion; helps infer cause and effect NOT generalize to population (random sampling)

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mundane realism

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degree to which experiment is similar to everyday situations (external validity)

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experimental realism

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degree to which experiment absorbs and involves participants (internal validity - measures processes it is supposed to)

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deception

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participants are misinformed or misled about study's methods and purposes

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demand characteristics

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cues that tell participant what is expected

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informed consent

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ethical principle requiring research participants told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate

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debriefing

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postexperimental explanation of a study to tis participants

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How do social psychologists organize their ideas and findings?

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Into theories