SOP3004 Exam 1 questions well
answered graded A+
Social Psychology - ANS ✔✔the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are
influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people
psychological processes that people have in common that influence social lives - importance of
the situation
level of analysis is the individual in the context of the a social situation
Social Influence - ANS ✔✔the effect that the words, actions, or presence of other people have
on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and behavior
Individual Differences - ANS ✔✔aspects of people's personalities that make them different from
other people
Cross Cultural Research - ANS ✔✔sharpens theories, either by demonstrating their universality
or additional variables in prediciting human behavior
Construal - ANS ✔✔the way in which people perceive comprehend, and interpret the social
world
Gestalt Psychology - ANS ✔✔stresses the importance of studying the subjective way in which an
object appears in people's minds rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object
,Social Cognition - ANS ✔✔how people think about themselves and the social world: how
people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgements and
decisions
Values in Social Psychology - ANS ✔✔accuracy, objectivity, skepticism, and open-mindedness
Familiarity with the Subject Matter - ANS ✔✔we all have experience with the social world but
instinct and experience can lead to inconcsistency
Hindsight Bias - ANS ✔✔the tendency to exaggerate prediction of an outcome after knowing
that it occured
Hypothesize - ANS ✔✔collections of variable organized into a testable statement of prediction
two concepts and a relationship
Operationalize - ANS ✔✔turning theoretical variables into things that can be measure
Conceptual Definition - ANS ✔✔the general concept
Operational Definition - ANS ✔✔what you are trying to "get at"
Observational Method - ANS ✔✔research observes people and systematically records
measurements or impressions of their behavior
behavioral observation (ethnography), physical trace, or data analysis (archival analysis)
, Interjudge Reliability - ANS ✔✔the level of agreement between two or more people who
independently observe and code a set of data
Limits of Observational Method - ANS ✔✔observer effects, difficult to observe, missing or
unclear information, cannot explain behavior
Correlation Method - ANS ✔✔measure two or more variables and assess the relationship
between them
Correlation Coefficient - ANS ✔✔how much one can be predicted from the other is represented
by
0 = no relationship
-1 or 1 = strong correlation
positive, negativem or none
Surveys - ANS ✔✔research in which a representative sample of people are asked questions
about their attitudes or behaviors
Limits of Correlation Method - ANS ✔✔correlation does not prove causation
third variable problem
Experimental Method - ANS ✔✔researcher randomly assigns participants to different
conditions ensures that these conditions are identical expect for the independent variable
Independent Variable - ANS ✔✔variable researcher manipulates
answered graded A+
Social Psychology - ANS ✔✔the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are
influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people
psychological processes that people have in common that influence social lives - importance of
the situation
level of analysis is the individual in the context of the a social situation
Social Influence - ANS ✔✔the effect that the words, actions, or presence of other people have
on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and behavior
Individual Differences - ANS ✔✔aspects of people's personalities that make them different from
other people
Cross Cultural Research - ANS ✔✔sharpens theories, either by demonstrating their universality
or additional variables in prediciting human behavior
Construal - ANS ✔✔the way in which people perceive comprehend, and interpret the social
world
Gestalt Psychology - ANS ✔✔stresses the importance of studying the subjective way in which an
object appears in people's minds rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object
,Social Cognition - ANS ✔✔how people think about themselves and the social world: how
people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgements and
decisions
Values in Social Psychology - ANS ✔✔accuracy, objectivity, skepticism, and open-mindedness
Familiarity with the Subject Matter - ANS ✔✔we all have experience with the social world but
instinct and experience can lead to inconcsistency
Hindsight Bias - ANS ✔✔the tendency to exaggerate prediction of an outcome after knowing
that it occured
Hypothesize - ANS ✔✔collections of variable organized into a testable statement of prediction
two concepts and a relationship
Operationalize - ANS ✔✔turning theoretical variables into things that can be measure
Conceptual Definition - ANS ✔✔the general concept
Operational Definition - ANS ✔✔what you are trying to "get at"
Observational Method - ANS ✔✔research observes people and systematically records
measurements or impressions of their behavior
behavioral observation (ethnography), physical trace, or data analysis (archival analysis)
, Interjudge Reliability - ANS ✔✔the level of agreement between two or more people who
independently observe and code a set of data
Limits of Observational Method - ANS ✔✔observer effects, difficult to observe, missing or
unclear information, cannot explain behavior
Correlation Method - ANS ✔✔measure two or more variables and assess the relationship
between them
Correlation Coefficient - ANS ✔✔how much one can be predicted from the other is represented
by
0 = no relationship
-1 or 1 = strong correlation
positive, negativem or none
Surveys - ANS ✔✔research in which a representative sample of people are asked questions
about their attitudes or behaviors
Limits of Correlation Method - ANS ✔✔correlation does not prove causation
third variable problem
Experimental Method - ANS ✔✔researcher randomly assigns participants to different
conditions ensures that these conditions are identical expect for the independent variable
Independent Variable - ANS ✔✔variable researcher manipulates
