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Question 1

The degree to which different observers agree on their observations

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Interrater Reliability

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The extent to which measure used in a study measure the variables they were designed to measure and the manipulations in an experiment manipulate the variable they are designed to manipulate.

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Construct Validity

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Participants disclose their thoughts, feelings, desires and actions.

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Self- Report

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An organized set of principles used to explain observed phenomena.

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Theory

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Research whose goal is to increase understanding of human behavior, often by testing hypotheses based on a theory.

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Basic Research

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They examine racial and ethnic group within culture

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Multicultural Research

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A subfield of psychology that examines the effects of genes on behavior

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Behavioral Genetics

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Self Report, in which respondents report their experiences as soon as possible after being signaled to do so, text message or beeper.

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Signal - Contingent

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Lengthy responses on a general topic. Researchers request or taken from other sources (diaries, book, speeches or chat discussion)

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Narrative Studies

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The specific way in which a conceptual variable is manipulated or measured

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Operational Definition

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The specific procedure for manipulating or measuring a conceptual variable.

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Operational Definition

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Self Report, in which respondents report their experiences at regular intervals, usually once a day.

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Interval Contingent

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A method of assigning participants to the various conditions of an experiment so that each participants i=has an equal chance of being in any of the conditions.

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Random Assignment

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The results you find in your experiment may be produced by your OWN actions rather than by the independent variable.

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Experimenters Expectancy Effect

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The extent to which the result obtained under one set of circumstances would also occur in a different set of circumstances

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External Validity

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Refers to the extent to which the research setting resembles the real-world setting of interest.

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Mundane Realism

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The degree to which experimental procedures are involving to participate and lead them to behave naturally and spontaneously.

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Experimental Realism

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In testing hypotheses in social psychology is to used a set of statistical procedures to examine , in a way relevant research that has already been conducted and reported.

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Meta Analysis

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People who act as though they are participants in the experiment but are really working for the experimenter

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Confederates

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Providing participants with false information abou the experimental procedure.

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Deception

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A disclosure, made to participants after research procedures are completed, in which the researchers explains the purpose of the study, attempt to resolve negative feelings, and emphasizes the scientific contribution made by the participants .

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Debriefing

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A nonconscious form of
self-enhancement

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Implicit Egotism

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refers to actions people take to handicap their own performance
in order to build an excuse for anticipated failure.

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Self- Handicapping

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found that at
times, the harder you try to inhibit a thought, feeling, or behavior, the less likely you are to succeed

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Ironic Processes

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A personality characteristic of individuals who are introspective, often attending to their own inner state

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Private Self Consciousness

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A personality characteristic of individuals who focus on themselves as social objects, as seen by others.

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Public Self Consciousness

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The defensive tendency to compare ourselves with others who are worse off than we are.

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Downward social comparison

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a tendency to believe that the social spotlight shines more brightly on them than it really does. In one set of studies, participants were asked to wear a T-shirt with a flattering or embarrassing image into a room full of strangers, after which they estimated how many of those strangers would be able to identify the image

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Spotlight Effect

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the tendency to regulate one’s own behavior to meet the demands of social situations

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Self Monitoring

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Eastern system of thought that accepts the coexistence of contradictory characteristics within a single person.

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Dialeticism

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enduring, detailed, high-resolution recollections and speculated that humans are biologically equipped for survival purposes to “print” dramatic events in memory

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Flashbulb Memory

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found across many cultures that may occur because these are busy and formative years in one’s life

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Reminiscence bump

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According to this provocative and infl uential theory, we humans are biologically programmed for life and self-preservation. Yet we are conscious of—and terrifi ed by—the inevitability of our own death. To cope with this paralyzing, deeply rooted fear, we construct and accept cultural worldviews about how, why, and by whom the earth was created; religious explanations of the purpose of our existence; and a sense of history fi lled with heroes, villains, and momentous events

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Terror Management Theory

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The theory that humans cope with the fear of their own death by constructing worldviews that help to preserve their self-esteem.

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Terror Management Theory

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characteristics that would enable you to meet your sense of duty, obligation, and responsibility

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Ought

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that embodies your hopes, wishes, and dreams. If you follow these instructions, you should have three lists: your actual self, your ought self, and your ideal self

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Ideal

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The theory that self-focused attention leads people to notice self-discrepancies, thereby motivating either an escape from self-awareness or a change in behavior.

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self-awareness theory

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the process by which we try to shape what other people think of us and what we think of ourselves

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Self Presentation

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consists of our eff orts to shape others’ impressions in specific ways in order to gain influence, power, sympathy, or approval

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Strategic self-presentation

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desire to have others perceive us as we truly perceive ourselves.

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Self Verification

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The tendency to change behavior in response to the self-presentation concerns of the situation.

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Self Monitoring

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tendency to regulate one’s own behavior to meet the demands of social situations

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Self Monitoring

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The defensive tendency to compare ourselves with others who are worse off than we are.

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Downward Social Comparison

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To increase self-esteem by associating with others who are successful.

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bask in reflected glory (BIRG)

Question 45

People often sabotage their own performance in order to protect their self-esteem t or f,?

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True

Question 46

Behaviors designed to sabotage one’s own performance in order to provide a subsequent excuse for failure

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Self handicapping

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unconscious and subtle form of self-enhancement

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Emplivit Egotism

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Sometimes the harder you try to control a thought, feeling, or behavior, the less likely you are to succeed. T or F?

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True

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A personality characteristic of individuals who are introspective, often attending to their own inner states.

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Self Private Consciousness

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tendency to believe that the social spotlight shines more brightly on them than it really does.

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Spotlight Effect

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term used to describe acts that are motivated by the desire to “get along” with others and be liked

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Ingratiation

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term used to describe acts that are motivated by a desire to “get ahead” and gain respect for one’s competence

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Self Promotion

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Theory that humans cope with the fear of their own death by constructing worldviews that help to preserve their self-esteem.

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Terror Management Theory

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theory that when internal cues are diffi cult to interpret, people gain self-insight by observing their own behavior

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Self Perception Theory

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It’s more adaptive to alter one’s behavior than to stay consistent from one social situation to the next T or F?

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False

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Research technique—a procedure in which participants are led to believe that their responses will be verified by an infallible lie detector.

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Bogus Pipeline Technique

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to describe people and their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

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Descriptive Research

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Ways as to how to test research

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observation research, archival, survey