Exam 1 Psy 331 UB Seery Questions With
Accurate Answers
What is social psychology? - ANSWER a discipline that uses scientific methods
in "an attempt to understand and explains how the thoughts, feelings, and
behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied
presence of others
Population - ANSWER Entire group of all relevant individuals
Sample - ANSWER a subset of the population
self-fulfilling prophecy - ANSWER an expectation that causes you to act in ways
that make that expectation come true.
self-fulfilling prophecy (three steps) - ANSWER 1. Impression of target
2. Actions consistent with impression
3. Target's behavior changes
The self - ANSWER The person, a social being with the ability to engage in
symbolic communication and self-awareness
The me - ANSWER Self concept, sum total of a person's thoughts and feelings
about the self, who you think you are changes over time, changes moment to
moment (different parts active vs not)
The I - ANSWER The knower of the me, me is just one possible focus. Self as
known, an evaluator, (also an agent, actor, or executor)
self-serving bias - ANSWER the tendency to perceive oneself favorably (deny
negatives)
Interactionism - ANSWER Combines personality psychology and traditional
People are removed to act by their needs, desired, and emotions (effect)
Social cognition - ANSWER the ways in which we interpret, analyze, remember,
and use information about our social world
dual process theories - ANSWER Theories of social cognition that describe two
basic ways of thinking about social stimuli, one involving automatic, effortless
thinking and the other involving more deliberate, effortful thinking
, explicit cognition - ANSWER deliberate, conscious mental processes involved in
perceptions, judgments, decisions, and reasoning
implicit cognition - ANSWER judgements or decisions that are under the control
of automatically activated evaluations occurring without our awareness
Culture - ANSWER The total lifestyle of a people, including all the ideas,
symbols, preferences, and material objects that they share
Individualism - ANSWER A philosophy of life stressing the priority of individual
needs over group needs, a preference for loosely knit social relationships,
autonomous of others influence
Collectivism - ANSWER A philosophy of life stressing the priority of group needs
over individual needs, a preference for tightly knit social relationships, and a
willingness to submit to the influence of one's group
evolutionary psychology - ANSWER an approach to psychology based on the
principle of natural selection
- charles darwin
-genes, natural selection, evolution, sex, gender
positive psychology - ANSWER an approach to psychology that studies ways to
enrich human experience and maximize human functioning
Scientific Method - ANSWER the set of procedures used for gathering and
interpreting objective information in a way that minimizes error and yields
dependable generalizations
basic research - ANSWER research designed to increase knowledge about
social behavior
applied research - ANSWER Research designed to increase the understanding
of real world problems by using current social psychological knowledge
Theory - ANSWER An organized system of ideas that seeks to explain why two or
more events are related
observational research - ANSWER a scientific method involving systematic
qualitative and/or quantitative descriptions of behavior
- naturalistic observation
-participant observation
-Observer bias
-archival researcj
Accurate Answers
What is social psychology? - ANSWER a discipline that uses scientific methods
in "an attempt to understand and explains how the thoughts, feelings, and
behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied
presence of others
Population - ANSWER Entire group of all relevant individuals
Sample - ANSWER a subset of the population
self-fulfilling prophecy - ANSWER an expectation that causes you to act in ways
that make that expectation come true.
self-fulfilling prophecy (three steps) - ANSWER 1. Impression of target
2. Actions consistent with impression
3. Target's behavior changes
The self - ANSWER The person, a social being with the ability to engage in
symbolic communication and self-awareness
The me - ANSWER Self concept, sum total of a person's thoughts and feelings
about the self, who you think you are changes over time, changes moment to
moment (different parts active vs not)
The I - ANSWER The knower of the me, me is just one possible focus. Self as
known, an evaluator, (also an agent, actor, or executor)
self-serving bias - ANSWER the tendency to perceive oneself favorably (deny
negatives)
Interactionism - ANSWER Combines personality psychology and traditional
People are removed to act by their needs, desired, and emotions (effect)
Social cognition - ANSWER the ways in which we interpret, analyze, remember,
and use information about our social world
dual process theories - ANSWER Theories of social cognition that describe two
basic ways of thinking about social stimuli, one involving automatic, effortless
thinking and the other involving more deliberate, effortful thinking
, explicit cognition - ANSWER deliberate, conscious mental processes involved in
perceptions, judgments, decisions, and reasoning
implicit cognition - ANSWER judgements or decisions that are under the control
of automatically activated evaluations occurring without our awareness
Culture - ANSWER The total lifestyle of a people, including all the ideas,
symbols, preferences, and material objects that they share
Individualism - ANSWER A philosophy of life stressing the priority of individual
needs over group needs, a preference for loosely knit social relationships,
autonomous of others influence
Collectivism - ANSWER A philosophy of life stressing the priority of group needs
over individual needs, a preference for tightly knit social relationships, and a
willingness to submit to the influence of one's group
evolutionary psychology - ANSWER an approach to psychology based on the
principle of natural selection
- charles darwin
-genes, natural selection, evolution, sex, gender
positive psychology - ANSWER an approach to psychology that studies ways to
enrich human experience and maximize human functioning
Scientific Method - ANSWER the set of procedures used for gathering and
interpreting objective information in a way that minimizes error and yields
dependable generalizations
basic research - ANSWER research designed to increase knowledge about
social behavior
applied research - ANSWER Research designed to increase the understanding
of real world problems by using current social psychological knowledge
Theory - ANSWER An organized system of ideas that seeks to explain why two or
more events are related
observational research - ANSWER a scientific method involving systematic
qualitative and/or quantitative descriptions of behavior
- naturalistic observation
-participant observation
-Observer bias
-archival researcj
