Social Psychology 360 Exam 1 Molina
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Observational Research - ✔️✔️Research can be a matter of merely looking at a
phenomenon in some reasonably systematic way with a view to understanding what is
going on and coming up with hypotheses about what is happening.
Survey - ✔️✔️Collecting information through questionnaires.
Random Sampling - ✔️✔️Taken random from a population
Correlational Research - ✔️✔️Research that does not involve random assignment to
different conditions, and that psychologists conduct just to see whether there is a
relationship between two variables.
Dispositions - ✔️✔️Internal Factors such as beliefs, values, personality traits, or
abilities that guide a person's behavior.
Independent Cultures - ✔️✔️Cultures in which people tend to think of themselves as
distinct social entities tied to each other by voluntary bonds of affection and
organizational memberships but essentially separate from other people and having
attributes that exist in the absence of any connection to others.
Interdependent Cultures - ✔️✔️Cultures in which people tend to define themselves as
part of a collective, inextricably tied to others in their group and placing less importance
on individual freedom or personal control over their lives.
Schema - ✔️✔️A knowledge structure consisting of any organized body of stored
information.
Social Psychology - ✔️✔️The scientific study of the feelings, thoughts and behaviors of
individuals in social situations.
Hindsight Bias - ✔️✔️People's Tendency to be overconfident about whether they could
have predicted a specific outcome.
Hypothesis - ✔️✔️A prediction about what will happen under particular circumstances.
Reverse Causation - ✔️✔️When variable 1 is assumed to cause variable 2, yet the
opposite direction may be the case.
, Experimental Research - ✔️✔️In social psychology, research that random assignment
to different situations, or conditions and that enables researchers to make strong
inferences about how these different conditions affect people's behavior.
Independent Variable - ✔️✔️The variable that is manipulated
Dependent Variable - ✔️✔️The variable that is measured
Random Assignment - ✔️✔️Assigning your participates to conditions randomly.
External Validity - ✔️✔️An experimental set up that closely resembles real life
situations that results can safely be generalized to such situations.
Internal Validity - ✔️✔️Confidence that the manipulated variable could have produced
the results.
Reliability - ✔️✔️The degree to which a particular way that researchers measure a
given variable is likely to yield consistent results.
Measurement Validity - ✔️✔️The correlation between some measure and some
outcome that the measure is supposed to predict
Basic Science - ✔️✔️Science concerned with trying to understand some phenomenon
in its own right; with a view toward using that understanding to
Applied Science - ✔️✔️Science concerned with solving real-world problems of
importance.
Ethics in Research - ✔️✔️The knowledge that participants are to be respected in
research. Deals with informed consent, approval from IRB, debriefing, etc.
Self-Handicapping - ✔️✔️People's tendency to engage in self-defeating behavior in
order to have a ready excuse should they perform poorly or fail.
Contingencies of Self-Worth - ✔️✔️An account of self-esteem that maintains that self-
esteem is contingent on successes and failures in domains on which a person has
based his or her self worth.
Ego Depletion - ✔️✔️A state, reduced by acts of self control, in which people lack the
energy or resources to engage in further acts of self control.
Self-Complexity - ✔️✔️The tendency to define the self in terms of multiple domains that
relatively distinct from one another in context.
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Observational Research - ✔️✔️Research can be a matter of merely looking at a
phenomenon in some reasonably systematic way with a view to understanding what is
going on and coming up with hypotheses about what is happening.
Survey - ✔️✔️Collecting information through questionnaires.
Random Sampling - ✔️✔️Taken random from a population
Correlational Research - ✔️✔️Research that does not involve random assignment to
different conditions, and that psychologists conduct just to see whether there is a
relationship between two variables.
Dispositions - ✔️✔️Internal Factors such as beliefs, values, personality traits, or
abilities that guide a person's behavior.
Independent Cultures - ✔️✔️Cultures in which people tend to think of themselves as
distinct social entities tied to each other by voluntary bonds of affection and
organizational memberships but essentially separate from other people and having
attributes that exist in the absence of any connection to others.
Interdependent Cultures - ✔️✔️Cultures in which people tend to define themselves as
part of a collective, inextricably tied to others in their group and placing less importance
on individual freedom or personal control over their lives.
Schema - ✔️✔️A knowledge structure consisting of any organized body of stored
information.
Social Psychology - ✔️✔️The scientific study of the feelings, thoughts and behaviors of
individuals in social situations.
Hindsight Bias - ✔️✔️People's Tendency to be overconfident about whether they could
have predicted a specific outcome.
Hypothesis - ✔️✔️A prediction about what will happen under particular circumstances.
Reverse Causation - ✔️✔️When variable 1 is assumed to cause variable 2, yet the
opposite direction may be the case.
, Experimental Research - ✔️✔️In social psychology, research that random assignment
to different situations, or conditions and that enables researchers to make strong
inferences about how these different conditions affect people's behavior.
Independent Variable - ✔️✔️The variable that is manipulated
Dependent Variable - ✔️✔️The variable that is measured
Random Assignment - ✔️✔️Assigning your participates to conditions randomly.
External Validity - ✔️✔️An experimental set up that closely resembles real life
situations that results can safely be generalized to such situations.
Internal Validity - ✔️✔️Confidence that the manipulated variable could have produced
the results.
Reliability - ✔️✔️The degree to which a particular way that researchers measure a
given variable is likely to yield consistent results.
Measurement Validity - ✔️✔️The correlation between some measure and some
outcome that the measure is supposed to predict
Basic Science - ✔️✔️Science concerned with trying to understand some phenomenon
in its own right; with a view toward using that understanding to
Applied Science - ✔️✔️Science concerned with solving real-world problems of
importance.
Ethics in Research - ✔️✔️The knowledge that participants are to be respected in
research. Deals with informed consent, approval from IRB, debriefing, etc.
Self-Handicapping - ✔️✔️People's tendency to engage in self-defeating behavior in
order to have a ready excuse should they perform poorly or fail.
Contingencies of Self-Worth - ✔️✔️An account of self-esteem that maintains that self-
esteem is contingent on successes and failures in domains on which a person has
based his or her self worth.
Ego Depletion - ✔️✔️A state, reduced by acts of self control, in which people lack the
energy or resources to engage in further acts of self control.
Self-Complexity - ✔️✔️The tendency to define the self in terms of multiple domains that
relatively distinct from one another in context.
