1 | P a g e | © copyright 2024/2025 | Grade A+
PSY 252 CAL POLY EXAM 1
Questions and Answer | Latest
Update 2024/2025
Operant conditioning (instrumental conditioning)
~~> Skinner
Social Psychology
~~> the scientific study of how we feel about, and behave toward the
people around us and how our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are
influenced by those people
Kurt Lewin
~~> Father of Social Psychology, developed many ideas like dynamic
interactions
Leon Festinger
~~> Edited "Research Methods in Behavioral Sciences"; Introduced the use
of deception in experiments
John Darley and Bibb Latane
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
, 2 | P a g e | © copyright 2024/2025 | Grade A+
~~> Altruism; when people do and don't help others
Leonard Berkowitz
~~> pioneered the study of human aggression
Irving Janis
~~> Focused on group behavior and group think; why can groups of
intelligent people make disastrous decisions when grouped together
Gordon Allport and Muzafir Sherif
~~> Focused on intergroup relations, why stereotyping, prejudice, and
discrimination
Social Cognition
~~> an understanding of how our knowledge about our social worlds
develops through experience and the influence of these knowledge
structures on memory, information processing, attitudes, and judgement
Why is human decision flawed?
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
, 3 | P a g e | © copyright 2024/2025 | Grade A+
~~> cognitive and motivational processes
Social neuroscience
~~> the study of how our social behavior both influences and is influenced
by the activities of our brain
Social situation
~~> the people with whom we interact every day - family, friends, religious
groups, as well as people we see on TV, or interact with on web, people we
think about, remember, or imagine
The social situation is usually more influential than a person's characteristics
Social psychologists believe that human behavior is caused by
~~> a person's characteristics and social situation
Social influence
~~> the process through which other people change our thoughts, feelings,
and behaviors through which we change theirs
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
, 4 | P a g e | © copyright 2024/2025 | Grade A+
Person-situation interaction
~~> Kurt Lewin: Behavior= f(person, social situation) function of (depends on)
person's characteristics and influence of a social situation
evolutionary adaptation
~~> The assumption that human nature, including much of our social
behavior, is determined largely by our evolutionary past
fitness
~~> the extent to which having a given characteristic helps the individual
organism to survive and to reproduce at a higher rate than do other
members of the species who do not have the characteristic.
Fitter organisms pass on...
~~> Their genes more successfully to later generations, making the
characteristics that produce fitness more likely to become part of the
organisms' nature than are characteristics that do not produce fitness
genes provide us..
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
PSY 252 CAL POLY EXAM 1
Questions and Answer | Latest
Update 2024/2025
Operant conditioning (instrumental conditioning)
~~> Skinner
Social Psychology
~~> the scientific study of how we feel about, and behave toward the
people around us and how our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are
influenced by those people
Kurt Lewin
~~> Father of Social Psychology, developed many ideas like dynamic
interactions
Leon Festinger
~~> Edited "Research Methods in Behavioral Sciences"; Introduced the use
of deception in experiments
John Darley and Bibb Latane
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
, 2 | P a g e | © copyright 2024/2025 | Grade A+
~~> Altruism; when people do and don't help others
Leonard Berkowitz
~~> pioneered the study of human aggression
Irving Janis
~~> Focused on group behavior and group think; why can groups of
intelligent people make disastrous decisions when grouped together
Gordon Allport and Muzafir Sherif
~~> Focused on intergroup relations, why stereotyping, prejudice, and
discrimination
Social Cognition
~~> an understanding of how our knowledge about our social worlds
develops through experience and the influence of these knowledge
structures on memory, information processing, attitudes, and judgement
Why is human decision flawed?
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
, 3 | P a g e | © copyright 2024/2025 | Grade A+
~~> cognitive and motivational processes
Social neuroscience
~~> the study of how our social behavior both influences and is influenced
by the activities of our brain
Social situation
~~> the people with whom we interact every day - family, friends, religious
groups, as well as people we see on TV, or interact with on web, people we
think about, remember, or imagine
The social situation is usually more influential than a person's characteristics
Social psychologists believe that human behavior is caused by
~~> a person's characteristics and social situation
Social influence
~~> the process through which other people change our thoughts, feelings,
and behaviors through which we change theirs
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
, 4 | P a g e | © copyright 2024/2025 | Grade A+
Person-situation interaction
~~> Kurt Lewin: Behavior= f(person, social situation) function of (depends on)
person's characteristics and influence of a social situation
evolutionary adaptation
~~> The assumption that human nature, including much of our social
behavior, is determined largely by our evolutionary past
fitness
~~> the extent to which having a given characteristic helps the individual
organism to survive and to reproduce at a higher rate than do other
members of the species who do not have the characteristic.
Fitter organisms pass on...
~~> Their genes more successfully to later generations, making the
characteristics that produce fitness more likely to become part of the
organisms' nature than are characteristics that do not produce fitness
genes provide us..
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
