SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 9TH EDITION BY
DELAMATER UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Social Thinking.
Answer: how we perceive ourselves and others, what we believe,
judgments we make, and our attitudes
◉ Social Influence.
Answer: culture, pressures to conform, persuasion, and groups of
people
◉ Social Relations.
Answer: prejudice, aggression, attraction and intimacy, and helping
◉ Social Neuroscience.
Answer: an interdisciplinary field that explores the neural bases of
social and emotional processes and behaviors and how these
processes and behaviors affect our brain and biology
◉ Culture.
,Answer: the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions
shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one
generation to the next
◉ Social Representations.
Answer: a society's widely held ideas and values, including
assumptions and cultural ideologies; our social representations help
us make sense of our world
◉ Hindsight Bias.
Answer: the tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one's
ability to have foreseen how something turned out; also known as
the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.
◉ Theory.
Answer: an integrated set of principles that explain and predict
observed events; a good theory effectively summarizes many
observations and makes clear predictions
◉ Hypothesis.
Answer: a testable proposition that describes a relationship that
may exist between events
◉ Field Research.
, Answer: research done in natural, real-life settings outside the
laboratory
◉ 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 or more factors while controlling others
◉ Independent Variable.
Answer: the factor in an experiment that is being manipulated
◉ Dependent Variable.
Answer: the factor in an experiment that is being measured
◉ Random Sample.
Answer: survey procedure in which every person in the population
being studied has an equal chance of inclusion
◉ Variables that could influence survey answers?.
DELAMATER UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Social Thinking.
Answer: how we perceive ourselves and others, what we believe,
judgments we make, and our attitudes
◉ Social Influence.
Answer: culture, pressures to conform, persuasion, and groups of
people
◉ Social Relations.
Answer: prejudice, aggression, attraction and intimacy, and helping
◉ Social Neuroscience.
Answer: an interdisciplinary field that explores the neural bases of
social and emotional processes and behaviors and how these
processes and behaviors affect our brain and biology
◉ Culture.
,Answer: the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions
shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one
generation to the next
◉ Social Representations.
Answer: a society's widely held ideas and values, including
assumptions and cultural ideologies; our social representations help
us make sense of our world
◉ Hindsight Bias.
Answer: the tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one's
ability to have foreseen how something turned out; also known as
the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.
◉ Theory.
Answer: an integrated set of principles that explain and predict
observed events; a good theory effectively summarizes many
observations and makes clear predictions
◉ Hypothesis.
Answer: a testable proposition that describes a relationship that
may exist between events
◉ Field Research.
, Answer: research done in natural, real-life settings outside the
laboratory
◉ 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 or more factors while controlling others
◉ Independent Variable.
Answer: the factor in an experiment that is being manipulated
◉ Dependent Variable.
Answer: the factor in an experiment that is being measured
◉ Random Sample.
Answer: survey procedure in which every person in the population
being studied has an equal chance of inclusion
◉ Variables that could influence survey answers?.
