Social Psychology Test 1

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The scientific study of how we form impressions of other people and situations

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Social Cognition

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What are the 4 impression formations in social cognition?

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1. Select 2. Interpret 3. Remember 4. Use social information to make decisions and to act

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Implicit type of thought. Nonconscious, involuntary, unintentional, effortless.

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Automatic thought

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Explicit type of thought. Conscious, intentional, voluntary and effortful.

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Controlled thought

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The scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of others.

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Social psychology

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Study of the group. Provides general laws and theories about societies, not individuals.

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Sociology

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Study of the individual. Studies the characteristics that make individuals unique and different from one another.

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Personality psychology

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The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world

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Construal

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What are the 5 core social motives?

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1. Need to belong 2. Need to understand 3. Need to control 4. Need to enhance self 5. Need to trust

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What are the three main methods of conducting social psychology research?

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1. Descriptive (observational) 2. Correlation 3. Experimental

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Techniques in which observations are made of an event/person so that it can be described.

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Descriptive methods

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The reseacher becomes a part of the group they wish to describe in descriptive method.

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Participant observation

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The person describes how they think and feel in descriptive method.

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Interviews

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A technique in which 2 or more variables are measured on a numerical scale so that the relationship between them can be assessed statistically.

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Correlational method

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What are the 3 reasons why correlation does not equal causation?

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1. Variable A may cause variable B
2. Variable B may cause variable A.
3. Unknown variable C may cause both A and B.

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A technique in which participants are randomly assigned to different conditions so that the causal influence of some variables on other variables can be examined.

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Experimental method

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The variable a researcher changes or varies to see if it has an effect on some other variable

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Independent variable

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The variable a researcher measures to see if it is influenced by the independent variable

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Dependent variable

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The process ensuring participants have an equal chance of taking part in any condition of an experiment

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Random assignment

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Making sure that nothing besides the independent variable can affect the dependent variable

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Internal validity

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The extent to which the results of a study can be generalized to other sitation and to other people

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External validity

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The extent to which the experimental ecents in a controlled setting are similar to events in the real world.

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Mundane Realism

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The extent to which the psychological processes triggered in an experiment are similar to psychological processes that occur in everyday life

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Psychological realism

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Experiments conducted in natural settings rather than in the laboratory.

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Field study

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Studies that are designed to find the best answer to the question of why people behave as they do and that are conducted purely for reasons of intellectual curiosity

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Basic research

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Studies designed to solve a particular social problem

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Applied research

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A mental structure that helps you organize information about a stimulus.

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Schemas

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The case whereby people have an expectation about what another person to like which influences how they act toward that person, which causes that person to behave consistently with people's original expectations, making the expectations come true.

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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A schema about a particular gorup or subgroup of society

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Stereotype

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A schema about a situation or event

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Script

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Traits go hand and hand

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Implicity personality traits

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What are the 4 functions of a schemas?

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1. Allow us to relate the present to the past 2. Allow us to make sense of ambiguous stimuli 3. Help us reconstruct memories 4. Allow us to conserve cognitive energy-- speed up information processing