Social Psych Exam Review: Chapter 1 Introducing Social Psychology Questions and Answers

Social Psych Exam Review: Chapter 1 Introducing Social Psychology Questions and Answers What is social psychology? - Answer️️ -the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another What are some of the "big ideas" mentioned in the text? - Answer️️ -Social thinking: 1. We construct our social reality 2. Our social intuitions are powerful, sometimes perilous 3. Attitudes shape, and are shaped by, behavior Social influences: 4. Social influences shape behaviors 5. Dispositions shape behavior Social relations: 6. Social behavior is also biological behavior 7. Feelings and actions toward people are sometimes negative (prejudiced, aggressive) and sometimes positive (helpful, loving) All these apply to social psychology: Social psychology's principles are applicable to everyday life ©SOPHIABENNETT@ Monday, August 19, 2024 12:35 AM Page 2 of 4 What place does intuition have in social psychology? - Answer️️ -our instant intuitions shape fears, impressions, and relationships. Social cognition matters, our behavior is influenced not just by the objective situation but also by how we construe it or deal with the situation. Routinely powerful and sometimes perilous. What influences social behavior? - Answer️️ --We speak and think in words we learned from others, we try to connect to others and "fit in". Our culture and who we spend our time around helps define our situations. -personal attitudes and dispositions also shape behavior, facing the same situation, different people may react differently based on personal attitudes How do values enter the work of social psychologists? - Answer️️ -When they choose research topics and the types of people who are attracted to various fields of study. They differ not only across time but across cultures, influence the types of people who are attracted to various disciplines, also enter the picture as the object of social psychological analysis. What is the "I Knew It All Along" phenomenon, and how does this relate to "hindsight bias?" What are the "down sides" to these? - Answer️️ --"I Knew It All Along" phenomenon is also known as the hindsight bias: the tendency to exaggerate after learning an outcome, one's ability to have foreseen how something turned out -events are far more "obvious" and predictable in hin