Psych 340 Exam 1 Marx Questions
and Answers (100% Pass)
social representations
✓ how we view the world from a collectove societal standpoint and how
that helps us understand the world around us
how do human values influence social psychology?
✓ - social psychologists' values penetrate their work-choice of research,
types of people attracted to, field of study
✓ - hidden assumptions when forming concepts
the big three
✓ Correlational, experimental, neuroscience
Correlational
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✓ -Unrepresentative sample
✓ -ordering of questions
✓ -wording of questions(framing)
✓ -response options- how strong/weak do you agree/disagree
✓ -studies relationships among variables
Experimental
✓ pros:
✓ cause and effect
✓ control
✓ precise
✓ cons:unreal setting, engaging
✓ 1 person at a time
✓ -seeks clues to cause and effect
neuroscience
✓ Pros: cause and effect, biology/physiology
✓ easily control variables, precise
✓ cons: angle of scanners affect precise data, newness, time, cost
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Implicit associations
✓ our thoughts and beliefs
✓ -focuses on our hidden bias
✓ -beliefs/biases of which we may be unaware/unwilling to share
word priming
✓ A set of words used to "prime" certain ideas, places or concepts,
activating particular associations--prejudgements affect how we
perceive and interpret information
Social psychology
✓ how people influence, think about, and relate to one another
✓ -how we construe our social worlds
✓ -how our social intuitions guide and sometimes deceive us
✓ -our social behavior is shaped by others
Random assignment
✓ Randomly assign people to the control or experimental group in order
to make sure any later difference is caused by research
mundane vs experimental realism
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