Social Psychology Final Exam Study Guide Questions With Correct Answers

Social Psychology Final Exam Study Guide
Questions With Correct Answers


Social Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The scientific study of how
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people think about, influence, and relate to others.
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Social Learning Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A modern offshoot of
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behaviorism that places primary emphasis on how people learn social
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behaviors from one another, especially through social reinforcement
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and modeling.
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Frustration-aggression Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-In its most | | | | | | |



absolute form, this hypothesis asserts that frustration always creates
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feelings of aggression and that aggression is always caused by
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frustration.


Decision Making Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-People calculate the
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costs and benefits of various actions and select the best alternative in a
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fairly logical way.
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Interdependence Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The theory that | | | | | | |



because members of a couple or group are interdependent (i.e., the
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outcomes one person experiences depend on what others do and vice
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,versa), individuals must coordinate their behavior to maximize their
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joint benefits. This is the most important social exchange perspective in
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social psychology.|




Social Exchange Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A Theory that analyzes
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the interaction between people in terms of the outcomes (rewards
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minus costs) that the individuals exchange with each other.
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Operational Definition - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The specific procedure
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or operation that is used to measure or manipulate a variable in a
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Independent Variable - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The variable in a study
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that is interpreted as the cause of changes in the dependent variable.
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This variable may be systematically manipulated by the researcher in an
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experiment or passively measured in a correlational study.
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Dependent Variable - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-In an experiment, the
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responses to the independent variable being manipulated or measured.
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Person Perception - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The mental processes we
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use to form judgments and draw conclusions about the characteristics
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and motives of other people; the process of forming impressions of
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others.

, Implicit Personality Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The ordinary
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person's theory about which personality traits go with other traits, such
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as "weak" going with "cowardly" and "calm" going with "decisive."
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Social Categories - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-groups that share a social
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characteristic such as age, gender, or religion | | | | | |




Stereotype - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Beliefs about the typical
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characteristics of members of a group or social category. In the study of
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prejudice, are the cognitive component of group antagonism.
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Assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-IN the study of attitude change,
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the tendency to perceive a communicator's position as closer or more
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similar to the individual's own position than it actually is.
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Exemplar - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-An example of a category that
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embodies the significant attributes of the category or the ideal of that
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category. Example: a robin is an exemplar of the category "bird."
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Social Learning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A modern offshoot of
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behaviorism that places primary emphasis on how people learn social
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behaviors from one another, especially through social reinforcement
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and modeling.
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