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Social Psychology Chapters 1-4 Practice
Questions and Answers
Social Psychology - Answer✔️✔️-the scientific study of how people think
about, influence, and relate to one another
Social Thinking - Answer✔️✔️-how we perceive ourselves and others, what
we believe, judgments we make, and our attitudes
Social Influence - Answer✔️✔️-culture, pressures to conform, persuasion,
and groups of people
Social Relations - Answer✔️✔️-prejudice, aggression, attraction and
intimacy, and helping
Social Neuroscience - Answer✔️✔️-an interdisciplinary field that explores
the neural bases of social and emotional processes and behaviors and how
these processes and behaviors affect our brain and biology
Culture - Answer✔️✔️-the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and
traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one
generation to the next
Social Representations - Answer✔️✔️-a society's widely held ideas and
values, including assumptions and cultural ideologies; our social
representations help us make sense of our world
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Hindsight Bias - Answer✔️✔️-the tendency to exaggerate, after learning an
outcome, one's ability to have foreseen how something turned out; also
known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.
Theory - Answer✔️✔️-an integrated set of principles that explain and predict
observed events; a good theory effectively summarizes many observations
and makes clear predictions
Hypothesis - Answer✔️✔️-a testable proposition that describes a
relationship that may exist between events
Field Research - Answer✔️✔️-research done in natural, real-life settings
outside the laboratory
Correlational Research - Answer✔️✔️-the study of the naturally occurring
relationships among variables
Experimental Research - Answer✔️✔️-studies that seek clues to cause-effect
relationships by manipulating one or more factors while controlling others
Independent Variable - Answer✔️✔️-the factor in an experiment that is
being manipulated
Dependent Variable - Answer✔️✔️-the factor in an experiment that is being
measured
Random Sample - Answer✔️✔️-survey procedure in which every person in
the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion
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Social Psychology Chapters 1-4 Practice
Questions and Answers
Social Psychology - Answer✔️✔️-the scientific study of how people think
about, influence, and relate to one another
Social Thinking - Answer✔️✔️-how we perceive ourselves and others, what
we believe, judgments we make, and our attitudes
Social Influence - Answer✔️✔️-culture, pressures to conform, persuasion,
and groups of people
Social Relations - Answer✔️✔️-prejudice, aggression, attraction and
intimacy, and helping
Social Neuroscience - Answer✔️✔️-an interdisciplinary field that explores
the neural bases of social and emotional processes and behaviors and how
these processes and behaviors affect our brain and biology
Culture - Answer✔️✔️-the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and
traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one
generation to the next
Social Representations - Answer✔️✔️-a society's widely held ideas and
values, including assumptions and cultural ideologies; our social
representations help us make sense of our world
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Hindsight Bias - Answer✔️✔️-the tendency to exaggerate, after learning an
outcome, one's ability to have foreseen how something turned out; also
known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.
Theory - Answer✔️✔️-an integrated set of principles that explain and predict
observed events; a good theory effectively summarizes many observations
and makes clear predictions
Hypothesis - Answer✔️✔️-a testable proposition that describes a
relationship that may exist between events
Field Research - Answer✔️✔️-research done in natural, real-life settings
outside the laboratory
Correlational Research - Answer✔️✔️-the study of the naturally occurring
relationships among variables
Experimental Research - Answer✔️✔️-studies that seek clues to cause-effect
relationships by manipulating one or more factors while controlling others
Independent Variable - Answer✔️✔️-the factor in an experiment that is
being manipulated
Dependent Variable - Answer✔️✔️-the factor in an experiment that is being
measured
Random Sample - Answer✔️✔️-survey procedure in which every person in
the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion
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