Psych 240 exam 1 Questions And Answers

social psychology - Answer-examines the way people and social situations influence people social cognition - Answer-how do we think about and perceive others? -Stereotypes/prejudice/discrimination explaining behavior - Answer-how we make sense of others and our own behaviors -Situational vs dispositional attributions freud - Answer--theorist self-serving biases, unconscious motivation, defense mechanisms le bon - Answer--theorist the irrationality of groups skinner - Answer--theorist behavior determined by reinforcement contingencies in the environment darwin - Answer--theorist behavioral reactions of humans are functional, their social behavior has adaptive significance and leads to success in the perpetuation of the species becker - Answer--theorist terror of knowing that we die can influence our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors social psychologys big lessons - Answer--the power of the situation -we construct our own social reality -our social intuitions are powerful but perilous-social influences shape our behavior, often outside our awareness -personal attitudes and disposition can shape behavior -social behavior is also biological behavior -social psychology's principles are applicable to every day life and other disciplines biological - Answer-social behavior is also ____ behavior social influence - Answer-attitudes and dispositions are subject to ____ _____ hindsight bias - Answer-the tendency to exaggerate, after learning the outcome, one's ability to have foreseen it -i knew it all along phenomenon replication - Answer-needed for theories to be tested properly correlational and experimental - Answer-how we study social psychology random selection - Answer-random assignment does not equal ____ ____ Independent variable - Answer-variables that are hypothesized to cause an effect dependent variables - Answer-variables that are hypothesized to be affected (what we measure) predictor variables - Answer-variables that are hypothesized to cause an effect but are characteristics of the participants and not something that can be easily randomly assigned conceptual - Answer-involve a verbal description of what it is we are trying to manipulate or measure operational - Answer-the precise way researchers choose to manipulate or measure their variablesbetween s design - Answer-each participant experiences only one condition in the experiment -participants are randomly assigned to the level of this factor within s design - Answer-each participant experiences all levels of the IV demand characteristics - Answer-when participants guess what is important in the study and change their behavior stealing thunder - Answer-revealing the worst evidence about your client before the prosecutor reveals it reduces the negative impact of that evidence