Chapter 1) lecture definitions, mission and method

Question 1

Who was Norman Triplett? What did he Do?

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Did the first social psych experiment in the 1890s. Measured if people were faster reeling in a fishing line by themselves or among others. Found when among others they reeled in faster

Question 2

Who was Max Ringelman

Answer 2

Not a psychologist, was a farmer. when multiple people pull a rope together they don’t work as hard. social loafing.

Question 3

Gordon Allport

Answer 3

Father of modern day psychology

Question 4

Social Influence

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How others affect us and how we affect others

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Social thinking

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how we think about ourselves and others

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Social behavior

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how we act in different social situations

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social acheivement

Answer 7

how we can get what we want using social situations

Question 8

what are the four major theoretical perspectives

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sociocultural, evolutionary, social learning, social cognitive

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Applied psychology

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seeking to solve or improve some problem or issue in the world

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basic psychology

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seeking to gain more information

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scientific method

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Develop a theory
Generate a hypothesis
Test the hypothesis
Analyze the data
Evaluate and potentially…
Revise the theory

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What are the three methods of social psychology

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observational, correlational, experimental

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Operational definition

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how you define a variable for a study

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self esteem

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how we value ourselves

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construct validity

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does your operational definition actually represent the construct you are trying to define

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confederate

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an actor who is actually part of the research team but the participants are unaware that they are involved in the research team

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correlation

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a statistic describing the relationship between two variables

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positive correlation

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drink more coffee heart rate goes up

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negative correlation

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drink more coffee sleep goes down

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no correlation

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quantity of coffee and shoe size

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naturalistic observation

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when the researchers unobtrusively observe a phenomenon as it occurs in the world. think festinger reckon and schachter and the alien group

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ethnography

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going to different cultures to make observations about them, and using those observations to make theories

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surveys

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asking participants to answer questions

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social desirability bias

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a major issue it comes to surveys. people often times respond in a way they think is socially acceptable rather than how they are truthfully feeing

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bogus pipeline

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a way to get around bias. tell the participants you have a way to determine if they are being truthful or not

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archival analysis

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looking at data that has already been collected an d examine it from a different perspective. think census data from the past

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meta - analysis

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taking generally published and also unpublished studies that look at the same phenomena to see if there agreements between them

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quasi experiment

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observing the experiment when the experimenter has no control over certain variables. think - he can't manipulate age

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within subjects design

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when you a participant in each of your experimental groups. it provides you with more control. is a stronger baseline when you are comparing the participant to themselves

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between subjects design

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popular in most research we find. when comparing experimental groups to each other and each participant is only in one group. generally you need more people and less time

Question 30

confounds

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also known as third variables. things outside your variable that are causing the relationship you are looking at. think heat ice cream and murder

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stimulus sampling

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not so sure

Question 32

replication crisis