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Social Psychology Final Exam Study Guide
with Complete Solutions
Social Psychology - Answer✔️✔️-The scientific study of how people think
about, influence, and relate to others.
Social Learning Theory - Answer✔️✔️-A modern offshoot of behaviorism
that places primary emphasis on how people learn social behaviors from
one another, especially through social reinforcement and modeling.
Frustration-aggression Hypothesis - Answer✔️✔️-In its most absolute form,
this hypothesis asserts that frustration always creates feelings of aggression
and that aggression is always caused by frustration.
Decision Making Theory - Answer✔️✔️-People calculate the costs and
benefits of various actions and select the best alternative in a fairly logical
way.
Interdependence Theory - Answer✔️✔️-The theory that because members of
a couple or group are interdependent (i.e., the outcomes one person
experiences depend on what others do and vice versa), individuals must
coordinate their behavior to maximize their joint benefits. This is the most
important social exchange perspective in social psychology.
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Social Exchange Theory - Answer✔️✔️-A Theory that analyzes the
interaction between people in terms of the outcomes (rewards minus costs)
that the individuals exchange with each other.
Operational Definition - Answer✔️✔️-The specific procedure or operation
that is used to measure or manipulate a variable in a research study.
Independent Variable - Answer✔️✔️-The variable in a study that is
interpreted as the cause of changes in the dependent variable. This variable
may be systematically manipulated by the researcher in an experiment or
passively measured in a correlational study.
Dependent Variable - Answer✔️✔️-In an experiment, the responses to the
independent variable being manipulated or measured.
Person Perception - Answer✔️✔️-The mental processes we use to form
judgments and draw conclusions about the characteristics and motives of
other people; the process of forming impressions of others.
Implicit Personality Theory - Answer✔️✔️-The ordinary person's theory
about which personality traits go with other traits, such as "weak" going
with "cowardly" and "calm" going with "decisive."
Social Categories - Answer✔️✔️-groups that share a social characteristic
such as age, gender, or religion
Stereotype - Answer✔️✔️-Beliefs about the typical characteristics of
members of a group or social category. In the study of prejudice, are the
cognitive component of group antagonism.
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Social Psychology Final Exam Study Guide
with Complete Solutions
Social Psychology - Answer✔️✔️-The scientific study of how people think
about, influence, and relate to others.
Social Learning Theory - Answer✔️✔️-A modern offshoot of behaviorism
that places primary emphasis on how people learn social behaviors from
one another, especially through social reinforcement and modeling.
Frustration-aggression Hypothesis - Answer✔️✔️-In its most absolute form,
this hypothesis asserts that frustration always creates feelings of aggression
and that aggression is always caused by frustration.
Decision Making Theory - Answer✔️✔️-People calculate the costs and
benefits of various actions and select the best alternative in a fairly logical
way.
Interdependence Theory - Answer✔️✔️-The theory that because members of
a couple or group are interdependent (i.e., the outcomes one person
experiences depend on what others do and vice versa), individuals must
coordinate their behavior to maximize their joint benefits. This is the most
important social exchange perspective in social psychology.
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Social Exchange Theory - Answer✔️✔️-A Theory that analyzes the
interaction between people in terms of the outcomes (rewards minus costs)
that the individuals exchange with each other.
Operational Definition - Answer✔️✔️-The specific procedure or operation
that is used to measure or manipulate a variable in a research study.
Independent Variable - Answer✔️✔️-The variable in a study that is
interpreted as the cause of changes in the dependent variable. This variable
may be systematically manipulated by the researcher in an experiment or
passively measured in a correlational study.
Dependent Variable - Answer✔️✔️-In an experiment, the responses to the
independent variable being manipulated or measured.
Person Perception - Answer✔️✔️-The mental processes we use to form
judgments and draw conclusions about the characteristics and motives of
other people; the process of forming impressions of others.
Implicit Personality Theory - Answer✔️✔️-The ordinary person's theory
about which personality traits go with other traits, such as "weak" going
with "cowardly" and "calm" going with "decisive."
Social Categories - Answer✔️✔️-groups that share a social characteristic
such as age, gender, or religion
Stereotype - Answer✔️✔️-Beliefs about the typical characteristics of
members of a group or social category. In the study of prejudice, are the
cognitive component of group antagonism.
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