W1 - Ch1 + Ch2

Question 1

What is social influence?

Answer 1

a

Question 2

What is social psychology?

Answer 2

s

Question 3

Social psychology is not specifically concerned with social situations as much as…. what?

Answer 3

s

Question 4

What is construal?

Answer 4

s

Question 5

What is “naive realism”, a term coined by Lee Ross? How does this construal appear in conflict negotiations, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Answer 5

e

Question 6

What is folk wisdom/common sense? Does it work well with the objectives of social psychology? Why or why not?

Answer 6

s

Question 7

How is social psychology similar to sociology? How do the two subjects differ?

Answer 7

s

Question 8

How is social psychology similar to personality psychology? How do the two subjects differ?

Answer 8

s

Question 9

What is the fundamental attribution error?

Answer 9

q

Question 10

Why do blame the victims of violence? What is the link between victim-blaming and fundamental attribution error?

Answer 10

q

Question 11

What influences how cooperative people be - their personalities or the nature of their social situation?

Answer 11

s

Question 12

What is the social situation? Why is it deemed a powerful thing?

Answer 12

a

Question 13

What is behaviorism? How would behaviorists scrutinize the social situation?

Answer 13

a

Question 14

What is Gestalt Psychology? How would gestalt psychologists scrutinize the social situation?

Answer 14

a

Question 15

What are the two basic human motives that construals stem from?

Answer 15

q

Question 16

What is the self-esteem approach and how do we use it to justify past behavior? How do we use the self-esteem approach to self-justify and make sense of our suffering?

Answer 16

w

Question 17

What is social cognition?

Answer 17

w

Question 18

What is the self-fulfilling prophecy?

Answer 18

a

Question 19

How can expectations about the social world influence our behavior?

Answer 19

a

Question 20

What is hindsight bias? Why is it a relevant bias to keep in mind when trying to critique research in social psychology?

Answer 20

y

Question 21

What is a theory and what is a hypothesis? How do the two differ?

Answer 21

q

Question 22

What is the operational definition?

Answer 22

w

Question 23

*May not include - What are the different ways in which researchers may come up with hypotheses or study ideas?

Answer 23

y

Question 24

What is the observational method? What kind of research is it and what kinds of questions does it attempt to answer?

Answer 24

w

Question 25

What is ethnography?

Answer 25

q

Question 26

How does Pepler and Craig's unobtrusive method for observational research work?

Answer 26

a

Question 27

Why is it important for researchers to clearly define behaviors of interest when conducting observational research?

Answer 27

w

Question 28

What is interjudge (ie. interrater) reliability? How do we attempt to establish it in observational research?

Answer 28

w

Question 29

What is archival analysis? Why is it a powerful observational research tool?

Answer 29

q

Question 30

How has archival analysis helped us in understanding the link between media depiction of women and men and body image?

Answer 30

q

Question 31

What is the correlational method? What kind of research is it and what kinds of questions does it attempt to answer?

Answer 31

W

Question 32

What is a correlation coefficient?

Answer 32

w

Question 33

What are surveys?

Answer 33

w

Question 34

What are some advantages of surveys in conducting correlational research?

Answer 34

e

Question 35

What is random selection?

Answer 35

w

Question 36

What are limits of correlational research?

Answer 36

q

Question 37

When there is a relationship between two variables, what are the three different ways that causation could take place?

Answer 37

1. 2. 3.

Question 38

What are the potential dangers of inferring causality from correlations? Please use an example.

Answer 38

w

Question 39

What is the experimental method? What kind of research is it and what kinds of question does it attempt to answer?

Answer 39

w

Question 40

How did Latané and Darley establish causality in their research about bystanders?

Answer 40

w

Question 41

What is the independent variable? What is the dependent variable?

Answer 41

e

Question 42

What is internal validity? How did Latané and Darley ensure internal validity in their bystander research?

Answer 42

w

Question 43

What is random assignment?

Answer 43

e

Question 44

What is the probability level (p-value)? Why is it important in experimental research?

Answer 44

e

Question 45

What is external validity? Why is it important?

Answer 45

w

Question 46

How do researchers ensure generalizability across situation?

Answer 46

q

Question 47

Why is generalizability across situations important?

Answer 47

e

Question 48

What is psychological realism? What are cover stories?

Answer 48

w

Question 49

Why is generalizability across people important?

Answer 49

t

Question 50

How can researchers ensure generalizability across people? Why is this not always easy to do?

Answer 50

e

Question 51

What is field research/experiments? Why are they important?

Answer 51

e

Question 52

What are some disadvantages of field research that can mitigated by laboratory experiment? What are some disadvantages of laboratory experiments that can be mitigated by field research?

Answer 52

w

Question 53

What is the basic dilemma of the social psychologist?

Answer 53

w

Question 54

What is replication? Why is it important in establishing theories within the field?

Answer 54

q

Question 55

What are meta-analyses? Why are they important when conducting research in the field?

Answer 55

e

Question 56

What is basic research?

Answer 56

e

Question 57

What is applied research?

Answer 57

e

Question 58

What is cross-cultural research? Why is it important to conduct?

Answer 58

e

Question 59

What are some issues in conducting cross-cultural research?

Answer 59

e

Question 60

What is social neuroscience? Why is it an important area of research?

Answer 60

e

Question 61

What is informed consent? Why is not always possible (ie. why do researchers need to use deception?

Answer 61

e

Question 62

What are the ethical principles of psychologists in the conduct of research?

Answer 62

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Question 63

What is debriefing? Why is it important?

Answer 63

e