Psych 3325 Exam 1 Questions With
Correct Answers
Social Influence - ANSWER The effect that the words, actions or mere presence
of others have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes and behavior
Social Psych - ANSWER Scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts,
feelings or behavior are influenced by the real or imagined presence of others
Construal - ANSWER the way in which people people perceive, comprehend and
interpret the social world
Individual Differences - ANSWER the aspects of people's personalities that make
them different from other people
Fundamental attribution error - ANSWER the tendency to overestimate the
extent to which people's behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors, and to
underestimate the role of situational factors
behaviorism - ANSWER school of psych that studies how positive or negative
events in the environment are associated with specific behaviors
gestalt psych - ANSWER stresses the importance of studying the subjective way
in which an object appears in people's mind, rather than the physical attributes
of the object
self-esteem - ANSWER people's evaluations of their own self-worth-- that is the
extent to which they view themselves as good, competent and decent
social cognitition - ANSWER how people select, interpret, remember and use
social information to make judgements and decisions
hindsight bias - ANSWER the tendency for people to exaggerate how much they
could have predicted an outcome after knowing that it occurred
observational method - ANSWER the technique whereby a researcher observes
people and systematicall records measurements or impressions of their
behavior
ethnography - ANSWER the method by which researchers attempt to
understand a group by observing it from the inside
, interjudge reliability - ANSWER the level of agreement between 2 or more people
who observe and code a set of data
archival analysis - ANSWER researcher examines accumulated documents or
archives of a culture
correlational method - ANSWER technique by which 2 or more variables are
systematically measured and the relationship between them can be predicted
correlation coefficient - ANSWER assesses how well you can predict one
variable from the other
surveys - ANSWER research in which a sample is asked questions about
attitudes or behavior
random selection - ANSWER ensures external validity
experimental method - ANSWER how IV causes DV
probability level (p value) - ANSWER how likely it is that the experiment occured
by chance and not because of IV. significant if p<0.05
psychological realism - ANSWER extent to which the psychological processes
triggered in an experiment are similar to psych processes that occur in every
day life
meta-analysis - ANSWER statistical technique that averages the results of 2 or
more studies to see if the effect of an IV is reliable
Basic Research - ANSWER 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 curiousity
applied research - ANSWER studies designed to solve a particular social
problem
automatic thinking - ANSWER thinking that is nonconscious, unintentional,
involuntary and effortless
schemas - ANSWER mental structures people use to organize their knowledge
about the social world around them
accessibility - ANSWER extent to which schemas and concepts are at the
forefront of people's minds and are therefore likely to be used when making
judgments about the social world
Correct Answers
Social Influence - ANSWER The effect that the words, actions or mere presence
of others have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes and behavior
Social Psych - ANSWER Scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts,
feelings or behavior are influenced by the real or imagined presence of others
Construal - ANSWER the way in which people people perceive, comprehend and
interpret the social world
Individual Differences - ANSWER the aspects of people's personalities that make
them different from other people
Fundamental attribution error - ANSWER the tendency to overestimate the
extent to which people's behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors, and to
underestimate the role of situational factors
behaviorism - ANSWER school of psych that studies how positive or negative
events in the environment are associated with specific behaviors
gestalt psych - ANSWER stresses the importance of studying the subjective way
in which an object appears in people's mind, rather than the physical attributes
of the object
self-esteem - ANSWER people's evaluations of their own self-worth-- that is the
extent to which they view themselves as good, competent and decent
social cognitition - ANSWER how people select, interpret, remember and use
social information to make judgements and decisions
hindsight bias - ANSWER the tendency for people to exaggerate how much they
could have predicted an outcome after knowing that it occurred
observational method - ANSWER the technique whereby a researcher observes
people and systematicall records measurements or impressions of their
behavior
ethnography - ANSWER the method by which researchers attempt to
understand a group by observing it from the inside
, interjudge reliability - ANSWER the level of agreement between 2 or more people
who observe and code a set of data
archival analysis - ANSWER researcher examines accumulated documents or
archives of a culture
correlational method - ANSWER technique by which 2 or more variables are
systematically measured and the relationship between them can be predicted
correlation coefficient - ANSWER assesses how well you can predict one
variable from the other
surveys - ANSWER research in which a sample is asked questions about
attitudes or behavior
random selection - ANSWER ensures external validity
experimental method - ANSWER how IV causes DV
probability level (p value) - ANSWER how likely it is that the experiment occured
by chance and not because of IV. significant if p<0.05
psychological realism - ANSWER extent to which the psychological processes
triggered in an experiment are similar to psych processes that occur in every
day life
meta-analysis - ANSWER statistical technique that averages the results of 2 or
more studies to see if the effect of an IV is reliable
Basic Research - ANSWER 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 curiousity
applied research - ANSWER studies designed to solve a particular social
problem
automatic thinking - ANSWER thinking that is nonconscious, unintentional,
involuntary and effortless
schemas - ANSWER mental structures people use to organize their knowledge
about the social world around them
accessibility - ANSWER extent to which schemas and concepts are at the
forefront of people's minds and are therefore likely to be used when making
judgments about the social world
