SOCIAL CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
STUDY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Social psychology - ANSWER-The study of how social influences affect thinking and action
Social cognition - ANSWER-An approach in which cognitive theories and research techniques are
used to investigate social psychology phenomena
Cultural psychology - ANSWER-The study of how cultural experiences are central and closely
linked with social psychological functioning
Dispositional factor - ANSWER-When the cause of peoples behavior are due to their internal
characteristics
Traits - ANSWER-Dispositions to behave in a particular way over a range of similar situations
Cross-Situational consistency - ANSWER-The phenomenon where people act the same way
across a variety of situations
Stability - ANSWER-The act of a consistent reaction to a situation over time
Strong situations - ANSWER-Situations that are powerful enough to suppress individual
differences
Weak situations - ANSWER-Situations that allow for more personality influences on behavior
Fundamental attribution error (FAE) - ANSWER-The bias to attribute others behavior to stable
internal causes rather than external circumstances
Self-Serving Bias(SSB) - ANSWER-The bias to explain our successes on the basis of internal,
dispositional factors and blame our failures to external, situational factors
Social Identity Theory(SIT) - ANSWER-The theory that is based on four interrelated concepts:
social categorization, social identity, social comparison, and positive distinctiveness
Ingroups - ANSWER-A group to which an individual belongs
Outgroups - ANSWER-A group to which the individual DOES NOT belong
Social Identity - ANSWER-The knowledge of one's membership of one or more social groups
STUDY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Social psychology - ANSWER-The study of how social influences affect thinking and action
Social cognition - ANSWER-An approach in which cognitive theories and research techniques are
used to investigate social psychology phenomena
Cultural psychology - ANSWER-The study of how cultural experiences are central and closely
linked with social psychological functioning
Dispositional factor - ANSWER-When the cause of peoples behavior are due to their internal
characteristics
Traits - ANSWER-Dispositions to behave in a particular way over a range of similar situations
Cross-Situational consistency - ANSWER-The phenomenon where people act the same way
across a variety of situations
Stability - ANSWER-The act of a consistent reaction to a situation over time
Strong situations - ANSWER-Situations that are powerful enough to suppress individual
differences
Weak situations - ANSWER-Situations that allow for more personality influences on behavior
Fundamental attribution error (FAE) - ANSWER-The bias to attribute others behavior to stable
internal causes rather than external circumstances
Self-Serving Bias(SSB) - ANSWER-The bias to explain our successes on the basis of internal,
dispositional factors and blame our failures to external, situational factors
Social Identity Theory(SIT) - ANSWER-The theory that is based on four interrelated concepts:
social categorization, social identity, social comparison, and positive distinctiveness
Ingroups - ANSWER-A group to which an individual belongs
Outgroups - ANSWER-A group to which the individual DOES NOT belong
Social Identity - ANSWER-The knowledge of one's membership of one or more social groups
