Chapter 1 Flashcards
(26 cards)
Behavioural Economics
An interdisciplinary subfield that focuses on how psychology - particularly social and cognitive psychology - relates to economic decision making
Behavioural Genetics
A subfield of psychology that examines the role of genetic factors in behaviour
Cross-Cultural Research
Research designed to compare people of different cultures
Culture
A system of enduring meanings, beliefs, values, assumptions, institutions, and practices shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
Evolutionary Psychology
A subfield of psychology that uses the principles of evolution to understand human social behaviour
Interactionist Perspective
An emphasis on how an individual’s personality and environmental characteristics influence behaviour
Multicultural Research
Research designed to examine racial and ethnic groups within cultures
Open Science
A movement to make research materials, methods, hypotheses, and data more transparent, accessible, and easily shared with researchers from other labs
Social Cognition
The study of how people perceive, remember, and interpret information about themselves and others
Social Neuroscience
The study of the relationship between neural and social processes
Social Psychology
The scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context
Brentwood
Where is the location of the golf course discussed by Malcolm Gladwell in the podcast?
It results in an unfair tax burden on individuals who subsidize the country clubs
According to the podcast, what is a consequence of the tax emptions enjoyed by private country clubs?
Their company is more likely to fire them
According to the podcast, what happens when a CEO plays more golf?
Entirely subsidized by the government
According to the podcast, golf courses in the United Kingdom and Canada are
1890s
Norman Triplett is often considered to be the father of psychology. His first research article in social psychology was published in the (year)
It freezes property tax assessments to pre-1978 levels, with reassessments only occurring after a transfer of ownership
According to the podcast, what does proposition 13 do in the context of property taxes in California?
Ship of Theseus
According to the podcast, this concept is used to justify the country club’s continued tax exemption
Ship of Theseus
A paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other
-Intuition is often wrong
-Sometimes social psych is the only explication
Why should I care about social psychology?
True
True or false: We’re pretty terrible at knowing what we’d do in X situation
Aristotle
Who said this : ‘‘To what extent is beauty ‘in the eye of the beholder’ ‘’
Context shaping our behaviours without our knowledge (even when trying our hardest)
(1900-Triplett) Cyclists faster in the presence of others. Designed experiment to test…
Stanely Milgram
American social psychologist known for his controversial experiments on obedience/conformity
