Social Psychology, Chapter 1

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Social Psychology

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

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Culture

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the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes and traditions schared 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 or values, including our assumptions and cultural ideologies. Our Social Representations help us make sense of our world.

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Naturalistic Fallacy

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Error of defining what is good in terms of what is observable.

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Hindsight

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Tendancy to exaggerate, AFTER learning an outcome. One's ablility to have foreseen how something turned out. "I knew it all along" phenomenon

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Theory

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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 what may exist between events.

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Field Research

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Research done in natural, real life settings, NOT in the lab.

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Correlational Research

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Study of the naturally occuring relationships between the variables.

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Experimental Research

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Studies that seek clues to casue-effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors (independent variables while controlling others holding them constant)

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Random Sample

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Survey procedure in which every person in the popluation being studied has an equal chance of inclusion.

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Independent Variable

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Experimental factor that a researcher manipulates.

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Dependent Variable

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the variable being measured, so called because it may depend on manipulations of the independent variable

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Random Assignment

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Process of assigning participants to theconditions of an experiment such that all persons have the same chance of being in a given condition. Random Assignment- helps us infer cause & effect VERSUS Random sampling - helps us generalize to a population

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Mundane Realism

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degree to which an experiement is superfically similar to everyday situations. (not important = mundane)

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Experimental Realism

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Degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants

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Demand Characteristics

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cues in an experiement that ell the particpant what behavior is EXPECTED. Cues that DEMAND certain behavior. To minimize this, computers are used.

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Informed Consent

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Ethical principle requiring that research participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate.