W1 - Lecture 1

Question 1

What do social psychologists care about?

Answer 1

The interaction between the individual and their social context.

1. How does the individual understand their social situation?
2. How does one’s social situation influence

Question 2

What is Gordon Allport’s definition of social psychology? What is interesting about it?

Answer 2

Social psychology is the scientific attempt to understand and explain how the thought, feeling, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

Question 3

Why do some people say that there is no such thing as self-perception? How does this link to Sartre’s quote “hell is other people”?

Answer 3

Because we view and try to understand each other through other people’s perceptions of us. Sartre

Question 4

***Why might we need social psychology even if we spend so much time inwards analyzing our behaviors?

Answer 4

Our analysis is not always accurate. We are bad at self-reporting and predicting what will make us happy.

Question 5

What is affective forecasting?

Answer 5

a

Question 6

Briefly describe/explain the dorm study:

Answer 6

a

Question 7

Briefly describe/explain the tenure decisions research:

Answer 7

a

Question 8

What is the ultimatum game? Why are the results of this game surprising?

Answer 8

a

Question 9

What is an example of emotional contagion?

Answer 9

a

Question 10

Explain the controversial Facebook experiment. What does it suggest about the importance of social psychology?

Answer 10

a

Question 11

What are the different factors that suggest that we may need social psychology?

Answer 11

a

Question 12

What is disgust sensitivity and how is it related to political conservatism?

Answer 12

a

Question 13

What are the three facts of life and what does each fact mean?

Answer 13

a

Question 14

What is Darwin’s “big idea”?

Answer 14

a

Question 15

Briefly explain evolution by natural selection:

Answer 15

a

Question 16

What is an adaptation?

Answer 16

a

Question 17

What is the link between natural selection and psychology?

Answer 17

a

Question 18

Describe the Clarke and Hatfield (1989) study about dating and casual sex

Answer 18

a

*What does it suggest about male and females’ propensities for casual sex”

Question 19

Why may there be differences between men and women in propensities towards casual sex?

Answer 19

• Cultural reasons

- Biological reasons (Parental Investment Theory)

Question 20

what does “our modern skulls house a stong-age mind” mean?

Answer 20

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Question 21

What is operationalization? Why is it important in psychological research?

Answer 21

a

Question 22

What are the broad research approaches?

Answer 22

1) Descriptve

Question 23

What are the broad research approaches?

Answer 23

1) Descriptive

2) Correlational

Question 24

Explain the descriptive approach

Answer 24

a

Question 25

Explain the correlational approach:

Answer 25

a

Question 26

What are the reasons why correlations don't establish causality?

Answer 26

a

Question 27

What are spurious correlations?

Answer 27

a

Question 28

Explain the experimental approach:

Answer 28

a

Question 29

Why randomization important in experiments?

Answer 29

a

Question 30

What is binocular rivalry? What does it imply about consciousness?

Answer 30

a

Question 31

What is thought to be the link between gossip and what we are conscious of? (Anderson et al., 2011)

Answer 31

a