SDSU Psy 340 Exam 1
Scientific method - ✔️✔️generate hypotheses, conduct research method in the
laboratory (so we can control extraneous variables and isolate what we think is an
important variable and then manipulate that variable), analyze data, report findings,
repetition of research by other researchers
Social psychology - ✔️✔️It is the SCIENTIFIC examination of how people think about,
influence, and relate to one another. It is the examination of EVERYDAY human
behavior
Social neuroscience - ✔️✔️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
Correlational Approach - ✔️✔️Trying to understand relationship between two variables
Experimental Research - ✔️✔️Generate hypothesis
Self-schemas - ✔️✔️Building blocks for the self
Actual self - ✔️✔️Who we are
Ideal self - ✔️✔️Who we want to be
Ought self - ✔️✔️Who we should be
Actual-Ideal discrepancy - ✔️✔️Promotion focus, dejection emotions
Actual-Ought discrepancy - ✔️✔️Prevention focus, agitation emotions
Social roles - ✔️✔️The hats we wear
Social identity - ✔️✔️I am what I am
Social comparisons - ✔️✔️Is she better than me?
Success and failure - ✔️✔️I aced that test
Other's judgement - ✔️✔️He's a nice guy
Scientific method - ✔️✔️generate hypotheses, conduct research method in the
laboratory (so we can control extraneous variables and isolate what we think is an
important variable and then manipulate that variable), analyze data, report findings,
repetition of research by other researchers
Social psychology - ✔️✔️It is the SCIENTIFIC examination of how people think about,
influence, and relate to one another. It is the examination of EVERYDAY human
behavior
Social neuroscience - ✔️✔️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
Correlational Approach - ✔️✔️Trying to understand relationship between two variables
Experimental Research - ✔️✔️Generate hypothesis
Self-schemas - ✔️✔️Building blocks for the self
Actual self - ✔️✔️Who we are
Ideal self - ✔️✔️Who we want to be
Ought self - ✔️✔️Who we should be
Actual-Ideal discrepancy - ✔️✔️Promotion focus, dejection emotions
Actual-Ought discrepancy - ✔️✔️Prevention focus, agitation emotions
Social roles - ✔️✔️The hats we wear
Social identity - ✔️✔️I am what I am
Social comparisons - ✔️✔️Is she better than me?
Success and failure - ✔️✔️I aced that test
Other's judgement - ✔️✔️He's a nice guy
