PSY 230 UMAINE EXAM 1 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. social psychology
Answer:
the scientific study of the way in which peoples thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real
or imagined presence of other people
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2. social influence
Answer:
the effect that the words, actions, or mere presence of other people have on our thoughts, feelings,
attitudes, or behavior.
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3. personality psychology
Answer:
the study of the characteristics that make individuals unique and different from one another.
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4. fundamental attribution error
Answer:
the tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors
and to underestimate the role of situational factors.
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5. behaviorism
Answer:
a school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the
reinforcing properties of the environment.
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6. construal
Answer:
the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world.
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7. gestalt psychology
Answer:
a school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears
in peoples minds rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object.
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8. self esteem
, Answer:
peoples evaluations of their own self-worth that is, the extent to which they view themselves as good,
competent, and decent.
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9. social cognition
Answer:
how people think about themselves and the social world, more specifically, how people select, interpret,
remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions.
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10. hindsight bias
Answer:
the tendency for people to exaggerate, after knowing that something occurred, how much they could've
predicted it before it occurred.
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11. observational method
Answer:
the technique whereby a researcher observes people and systematically records measurements of
impressions of their behavior.
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12. ethnography
Answer:
the method by which researchers attempt to understand a group or culture by observing it from the inside,
without imposing any preconceived notions they might have.
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13. inter judge reliability
Answer:
the level of agreement between two or more people who independently observe and code a set of data: by
showing that two or more judges independently come up with the same observations, researchers ensure
that the observations are not the subjective, distorted impressions of one individual.
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14. archival analysis
Answer:
a form of the observational method in which the researcher examines the accumulated documents, or
archives, of a culture (diaries, novels, magazines, and newspapers)
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15. correlation method
Answer:
the technique whereby two or more variables are systematically measure and the relationship between
them (how much one can be predicted from the other) is assessed.
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. social psychology
Answer:
the scientific study of the way in which peoples thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real
or imagined presence of other people
Question:
2. social influence
Answer:
the effect that the words, actions, or mere presence of other people have on our thoughts, feelings,
attitudes, or behavior.
Question:
3. personality psychology
Answer:
the study of the characteristics that make individuals unique and different from one another.
Question:
4. fundamental attribution error
Answer:
the tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors
and to underestimate the role of situational factors.
Question:
5. behaviorism
Answer:
a school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the
reinforcing properties of the environment.
Question:
6. construal
Answer:
the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world.
Question:
7. gestalt psychology
Answer:
a school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears
in peoples minds rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object.
Question:
8. self esteem
, Answer:
peoples evaluations of their own self-worth that is, the extent to which they view themselves as good,
competent, and decent.
Question:
9. social cognition
Answer:
how people think about themselves and the social world, more specifically, how people select, interpret,
remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions.
Question:
10. hindsight bias
Answer:
the tendency for people to exaggerate, after knowing that something occurred, how much they could've
predicted it before it occurred.
Question:
11. observational method
Answer:
the technique whereby a researcher observes people and systematically records measurements of
impressions of their behavior.
Question:
12. ethnography
Answer:
the method by which researchers attempt to understand a group or culture by observing it from the inside,
without imposing any preconceived notions they might have.
Question:
13. inter judge reliability
Answer:
the level of agreement between two or more people who independently observe and code a set of data: by
showing that two or more judges independently come up with the same observations, researchers ensure
that the observations are not the subjective, distorted impressions of one individual.
Question:
14. archival analysis
Answer:
a form of the observational method in which the researcher examines the accumulated documents, or
archives, of a culture (diaries, novels, magazines, and newspapers)
Question:
15. correlation method
Answer:
the technique whereby two or more variables are systematically measure and the relationship between
them (how much one can be predicted from the other) is assessed.
