SOC PSY 1Z03 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
●● Social Behaviour (part of social psychology)
Answer: Focuses on one's behaviour (actions), affect (emotions), and
cognition (thoughts)
●● Nature and Causes (part of social psychology)
Answer: What one does and why they do it
●● core concepts in social psychology
Answer: 1. impact of individuals on another's behaviour and beliefs
2. impact of a group on a member's behaviours
3. Impact of a member on the group's structure and activities
4. impact of a group on another group's structure and activities
5. impact of social context on groups and individuals
●● Theories
Answer: a set of interrelated ideas which explain and organize a set of
observed phenomena
,●● Middle Range Theory
Answer: theories which identify conditions that produce specific social
behaviours
●● Theoretical perspectives
Answer: A viewpoint/general explanation allowing us to establish
common ground to observe phenomena, allow us to look objectively
without judgement, provide a frame of reference
●● Schools of Thought in Social Psychology
Answer: 1. Psychological Social Psychology (PSP)
2. Sociological Social Psychology (SSP)
3. Symbolic Interaction (SI)
4. Group Processes
5. Social Structure and Personality (Umbrella of SSP)
●● Psychological Social Psychology
Answer: Focused on cognition and motivation. Deals with cognitive
processes and evolutionary theory
●● Cognitive Processes (PSP)
Answer: An individuals mental activities (judgement, problem solving,
perception, memory ) determine their social behaviour. Also states that
there in an indirect link between external stimuli and behavioural
, processes, and states that we use schema to make sense of complex
information
●● Dual-Processing theory of Information Processing
Answer: A sub-theory of Cognitive processes (PSP). We process
information automatically (fast, relies on heuristics to rapidly tell us how
to act with others), or deliberatley (slow and effortful, used for relevant
people or those who do not fit our heuristics)
●● Social Inference Theory
Answer: A sub-theory of Cognitive Processes (PSP). Individuals
identifications with groups, organizations or cultures drive their
cognitive processes. We must identify with a group for something to be
salient or real
●● Limitations of Cognitive Processes (PSP)
Answer: 1. simplification of cognitive processes and information
processing
2. difficult to observe cognitive processes in a tangible form
●● Evolutionary Theories (PSP)
Answer: Examines social behaviours, biological processes, and
personality traits (aggression and altruism) and states that traits which
aid in survival will occur more frequently as carriers of those traits will
reproduce more often
STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
●● Social Behaviour (part of social psychology)
Answer: Focuses on one's behaviour (actions), affect (emotions), and
cognition (thoughts)
●● Nature and Causes (part of social psychology)
Answer: What one does and why they do it
●● core concepts in social psychology
Answer: 1. impact of individuals on another's behaviour and beliefs
2. impact of a group on a member's behaviours
3. Impact of a member on the group's structure and activities
4. impact of a group on another group's structure and activities
5. impact of social context on groups and individuals
●● Theories
Answer: a set of interrelated ideas which explain and organize a set of
observed phenomena
,●● Middle Range Theory
Answer: theories which identify conditions that produce specific social
behaviours
●● Theoretical perspectives
Answer: A viewpoint/general explanation allowing us to establish
common ground to observe phenomena, allow us to look objectively
without judgement, provide a frame of reference
●● Schools of Thought in Social Psychology
Answer: 1. Psychological Social Psychology (PSP)
2. Sociological Social Psychology (SSP)
3. Symbolic Interaction (SI)
4. Group Processes
5. Social Structure and Personality (Umbrella of SSP)
●● Psychological Social Psychology
Answer: Focused on cognition and motivation. Deals with cognitive
processes and evolutionary theory
●● Cognitive Processes (PSP)
Answer: An individuals mental activities (judgement, problem solving,
perception, memory ) determine their social behaviour. Also states that
there in an indirect link between external stimuli and behavioural
, processes, and states that we use schema to make sense of complex
information
●● Dual-Processing theory of Information Processing
Answer: A sub-theory of Cognitive processes (PSP). We process
information automatically (fast, relies on heuristics to rapidly tell us how
to act with others), or deliberatley (slow and effortful, used for relevant
people or those who do not fit our heuristics)
●● Social Inference Theory
Answer: A sub-theory of Cognitive Processes (PSP). Individuals
identifications with groups, organizations or cultures drive their
cognitive processes. We must identify with a group for something to be
salient or real
●● Limitations of Cognitive Processes (PSP)
Answer: 1. simplification of cognitive processes and information
processing
2. difficult to observe cognitive processes in a tangible form
●● Evolutionary Theories (PSP)
Answer: Examines social behaviours, biological processes, and
personality traits (aggression and altruism) and states that traits which
aid in survival will occur more frequently as carriers of those traits will
reproduce more often
