Chapter 1: Intro Social Psych

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social psych

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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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integration of biological and social perspectives that explores the neural and psycholigcal bases of social and emotional behvaiors

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culture

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enduring behavrios, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of poles 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 . our social represntation help us make sense of our world.

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hindsight bias

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tendency to exaggerate after learning an outcome, one's ability to have foreseen how something turned out.

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theory

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integrated set of principle that explain and predict observed events

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field research

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research done in natural real life setting outside the laboratory

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correlational research

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study of naturally occuring relaiontships among variables

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expereimental research

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studies that seek clues to cause-effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors while controlling others

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random sample

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

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framing

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the way a question or an issue is posed; can influence people's decisions and expressed opinions

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independent variable

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experimental factor that is manipulated

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dependent variable

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varialbe beign measured so called because it may depend on manipulation of independent variable

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random assignment

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process of assigning participants to the conditions of an experiment such that all persons have the same chance of being in a giving condition

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mundane realism

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degree to which an experiment is uperficially similar to everyday situations

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experimental realism

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degree in which an expreiment absorbs and involves its participants

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deception

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reserach effect by which particpants are misinformed or miled about the study's method and purposes

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informed consent

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ethical principle requireing that research participants be told enough to enable them to choose wheather they wish to participate

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demand characteristics

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cues in an experiment that tell the particpant what behavior is expected

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debriefing

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soial psychology, after the experiment, explanation of a study to its participants. debriefing usually discloses any deception and often querries participants regarding their understanding and feelings