Psych 3325 Exam 1 with Complete
Solutions
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
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
priming - ANSWER-the process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility
of a schema, trait or concept
, self-fulfilling profecy - ANSWER-people have an expectation, which influences how they
act, which in turn makes their expectation come true
judgemental heuristics - ANSWER-mental shortcuts people use to make judgements
quickly and efficiently
availability heuristic - ANSWER-mental rule of thumb whereby people base a judgement
on the ease with which they can bring something to mind
representativeness heuristic - ANSWER-mental shortcut whereby people classify
something according to how similar it is to a typical case
base rate information - ANSWER-information about the frequency of members of
different categories in the populations
analytic thinking style - ANSWER-type of thinking when people focus on properties of
objects without considering their surrounding context
holistic thinking style - ANSWER-people focus on overall context and how things relate
to each other
controlled thinking - ANSWER-thinking that is conscious, intentional, voluntary and
effortful
counterfactual thinking - ANSWER-mentally changing some aspect of the past as a way
of imagining what might have been
thought suppression - ANSWER-the attempt to avoid thinking about something we
would prefer to forget
overconfidence barrier - ANSWER-the fact that people usually have too much
confidence in the accuracy of their judgments
social perception - ANSWER-how we make impressions and inferences about other
people
nonverbal communication - ANSWER-the way in which people communicate without
words
encode - ANSWER-to express or emit nonverbal behavior (smiling etc)
decode - ANSWER-to interpret the meaning of nonverbal behavior (smiling=happy)
affect blend - ANSWER-facial expression in which one part of the face registers one
emotion while another part registers another
Solutions
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
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
priming - ANSWER-the process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility
of a schema, trait or concept
, self-fulfilling profecy - ANSWER-people have an expectation, which influences how they
act, which in turn makes their expectation come true
judgemental heuristics - ANSWER-mental shortcuts people use to make judgements
quickly and efficiently
availability heuristic - ANSWER-mental rule of thumb whereby people base a judgement
on the ease with which they can bring something to mind
representativeness heuristic - ANSWER-mental shortcut whereby people classify
something according to how similar it is to a typical case
base rate information - ANSWER-information about the frequency of members of
different categories in the populations
analytic thinking style - ANSWER-type of thinking when people focus on properties of
objects without considering their surrounding context
holistic thinking style - ANSWER-people focus on overall context and how things relate
to each other
controlled thinking - ANSWER-thinking that is conscious, intentional, voluntary and
effortful
counterfactual thinking - ANSWER-mentally changing some aspect of the past as a way
of imagining what might have been
thought suppression - ANSWER-the attempt to avoid thinking about something we
would prefer to forget
overconfidence barrier - ANSWER-the fact that people usually have too much
confidence in the accuracy of their judgments
social perception - ANSWER-how we make impressions and inferences about other
people
nonverbal communication - ANSWER-the way in which people communicate without
words
encode - ANSWER-to express or emit nonverbal behavior (smiling etc)
decode - ANSWER-to interpret the meaning of nonverbal behavior (smiling=happy)
affect blend - ANSWER-facial expression in which one part of the face registers one
emotion while another part registers another
