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PSYC 1510 Test 1 Questions with 100% VERIFIED
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Social psychology - ANSWER The scientific study of how we feel
about, think about, and behave toward the people around us
and how our feelings, thoughts, and behaviours are influenced
by those people.
Self-concern - ANSWER The motivation to protect and enhance
the self and the people who are psychologically close to us
Other-concern - ANSWER The motivation to affiliate with,
accept, and be accepted by others
Social influence - ANSWER The process through which other
people chance our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours and
through which we change theirs
Social norms - ANSWER Ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving
that are shared by group members and perceived by them as
appropriate
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Culture - ANSWER A group of people, normally living within a
given geographical region, who share a common set of social
norms, including religious and family values and moral beliefs
Individualistic - ANSWER Focus on the personal self and
achievements, individual success, autonomy, independence.
Collectivistic - ANSWER A focus on interpersonal connections,
group successes, duty and responsibility to ingroup and family
ABC's - ANSWER Affect: Emotions, moods, feelings
Behaviour: How we act, or intend to act
Cognition: How we think, our beliefs, thoughts, etc
Social cognition - ANSWER Thoughts that helps us understand
and predict the behaviour of ourselves and others
APA - ANSWER Cognition in which people perceive, think about,
interpret, categorize, and judge their own social behaviors and
those of others
PSYC 1510 Test 1 Questions with 100% VERIFIED
Answers UPDATED!!!
Social psychology - ANSWER The scientific study of how we feel
about, think about, and behave toward the people around us
and how our feelings, thoughts, and behaviours are influenced
by those people.
Self-concern - ANSWER The motivation to protect and enhance
the self and the people who are psychologically close to us
Other-concern - ANSWER The motivation to affiliate with,
accept, and be accepted by others
Social influence - ANSWER The process through which other
people chance our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours and
through which we change theirs
Social norms - ANSWER Ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving
that are shared by group members and perceived by them as
appropriate
, 2|Page
Culture - ANSWER A group of people, normally living within a
given geographical region, who share a common set of social
norms, including religious and family values and moral beliefs
Individualistic - ANSWER Focus on the personal self and
achievements, individual success, autonomy, independence.
Collectivistic - ANSWER A focus on interpersonal connections,
group successes, duty and responsibility to ingroup and family
ABC's - ANSWER Affect: Emotions, moods, feelings
Behaviour: How we act, or intend to act
Cognition: How we think, our beliefs, thoughts, etc
Social cognition - ANSWER Thoughts that helps us understand
and predict the behaviour of ourselves and others
APA - ANSWER Cognition in which people perceive, think about,
interpret, categorize, and judge their own social behaviors and
those of others
