Social Psychology Exam 1 Questions and
Answers (100% Pass)
Social Psychology - Answer✔️✔️-The scientific study of how people think
about, influence, and relate it to one another.
Social Thinking is... - Answer✔️✔️-how we perceive others, what we believe,
judgements we make, our attitudes
Big Ideas in Social Psychology... - Answer✔️✔️-2)Our social intuitions are
powerful, sometimes perilous
3) Attitudes and Dispositions shape our behavior
4)Social influence shape behavior
6) Social behavior is also biological behavior
+ Social psychology's principles are applicable to everyday life.
Correlational Research - Answer✔️✔️-The study of the naturally occurring
relationships among variables
Experimental Research - Answer✔️✔️-Studies that seek clues to cause-effect
relationships by manipulating one of more factors (independent variables)
while controlling others (holding them constant)
Mundane Realism - Answer✔️✔️-Degree to which an experiment is
superficially similar to everyday situations
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Deception - Answer✔️✔️-Occurs in research when participants are
misinformed or misled about the study's methods and purpose.
Informed Consent - Answer✔️✔️-An ethical principle requiring that research
participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to
participate; to protect them from harm and significant discomfort and treat
participants confidentially
Debriefing - Answer✔️✔️-In social psychology, the post-experimental
explanation of study to its participants; usually discloses any deception
and often queries participants regarding their understandings and feelings.
Spotlight Effect - Answer✔️✔️-The belief that others are paying more
attention to one's appearance and behavior than they really are.
Illusion of Transparency - Answer✔️✔️-The illusion that our concealed
emotions leak out and can be easily read by others.
Self-Schema - Answer✔️✔️-Beliefs about self that organize and guide the
processing of self-relevant information
Self-Reference Effect - Answer✔️✔️-The tendency to process efficiently and
remember well information related to oneself
Possible Selves - Answer✔️✔️-Images of what we dream or dread becoming
in the future
"Fake It Till You Make It" - Answer✔️✔️-By acting a certain way more and
more, we begin to believe the act about ourselves
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