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module 1 Flashcards

1
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How did Brehm and Kassin define social psych in 1993

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the scientific study of the way individuals think, feel, and behave in social situations

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who defined social psych as ‘the discipline that seeks to understand how the thought, feelings, and behaviours of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others’

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Gordon Allport in 1935

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2
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social psych examines the interaction between the person and the ______

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situation

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3
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what is an example of a famous social experiment about authority

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Milgram experiment

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4
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internal psychological state examples

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attitudes, moods, self-esteem

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5
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in psychology, the unit of analysis tends to be the _____, whereas in sociology, the unit of analysis tends to be the _____

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individual, group

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6
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what is the premier journal in social psych

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the journal of personality and social psychology

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how does social and personality psych differ

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unit of analysis is the person and individual differences (personality traits) for personality but for social it is the interaction and how they respond to environment

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clinical vs social psych

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clinical: non-normative behaviours
social: normative behaviours

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t or f: smiling can make you feel happier

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  • true
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t or f: its more adaptive to alter one’s behaviour than to stay consistent from one social situation to the next

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  • false
  • a balance of both is best
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self monitoring

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  • the extent to which we change from situation to situation
  • adapting personality for diff social situations
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t or f: i general, ppl aren’t very skilled at knowing when someone is lying

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true

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t or f: the notion that we can create a self-fulfilling prophecy by getting others to behave in ways that we expect is a myth

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  • false
  • the way one construes social situations affects behaviour and in turn the behaviour of others
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t or f: on average, there is not a large diff in self esteem of members of low status stereotyped groups and members of high status non-stereotyped groups.

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  • true
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t or f: ppl tend to underestimate the extent of which others notice their behaviours and appearances

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  • flase, we overestimate
15
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t or f: researchers can tell if someone has a positive or negative attitude toward a target by measuring their physiological arousal

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  • false, you cant determine attitude/valance from arousal, only magnitude/extent of physiological arousal from tools
16
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t or f: the more you pay people to tell a lie, the more they will come to believe it

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  • false
  • cognitive dissonance
17
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cognitive dissonance

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  • when your mental beliefs dont match up with your actions
18
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romantic _____ effect

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  • red
  • when women wear red they are seen as more attractive
19
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t or f: as the number of ppl in a group increases, so does their impact on an individual

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  • false
  • there is an effect of group size but it levels off quickly ie its nonlinear
20
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t or f: ppl cheer louder when they are in a bigger group

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false, social loafing

21
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t or f: if your friend does smth embarrassing in a group situation, the rest of the group will judge you harshly as well

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  • fase
  • guilty-by-association effect
22
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t or f: ppl working individually will come up w a greater number of high quality ideas than the same number of ppl working in a group

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true, group think

23
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t or f: ppls attitudes tend to be more moderate after group discussion

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false, validation causes ideas to become more extreme

24
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t or f: looking at a facebook page can cause temp. increases in self-esteem, compare to looking in a mirror

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true, you choose who you present as on social media, the mirror is real

25
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t or f: physically attractive ppl are seen as less intelligent than physically unattractive ppl

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false, ‘halo effect’, pretty ppl are viewed as smarter and other good traits

26
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t or f: relative to those in a neutral mood, ppl in a bad mood are more likely to help others

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true, ppl try to repair their mood by helping others

27
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why do people think their common sense is accurate even when its wrong

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perceptual contrast

28
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define theory. what are qualities for therories

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  • organized set of principals used to explain observed phenomena
  • simple, complete, internally consistent, generative, lead to new questions, and testable
29
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non experimental approches to research

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  • archival study (examine existing records of past events)
  • case study: detailed examination of a single event or person
  • survey study: participants complete questionnaires
  • observational study: participants behaviours are observed often in a naturalistic setting
30
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what is a correlation coefficient? whats its range?

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  • r
  • example of stat that tells us abt magnitude and direction of the relationship between two variable
  • range: (-1.0 to +1.0)
31
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t or f: non-experimental approaches imply a casual relationship

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  • false, correlation vs causation
  • reverse causality
  • spuriousness (third varibale)
32
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what are the two hallmark features of experiments?

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  • independent variable is manipulated and the dependant variable is measured (manipulation)
  • participants are randomly assigned to groups (random assignment)
33
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why do you need non-experimental research?

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  • its not possible and/or ethical to manipulate some variable
34
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internal validity

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  • independent variable is what manipulated the dependant variable not smth else
35
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external validity

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can you repeat the test and get the same result?

36
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what are WEIRD samples

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  • Western
    -Educated
    -Industrialized
    -Rich
    -Democratic
37
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what are ethical rights of participants in research?

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  • protection from harm
  • informed consent
  • permission to withdraw
  • privacy
  • debriefing (including deception)
  • clearance from research ethics board

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