Week 1: Chapter 1

Question 1

Does social psychology or sociology focus more on the individual and their influence?

Answer 1

Social psychology

Question 2

Social Psychology is the study of:

• Social _____
• Social _____
• Social _____

Answer 2

Thinking; Influence; Relations

Question 3

One big idea is Social Psychology is that we construct our ______ ______

Answer 3

social reality

Question 4

There may be an objective reality out there, but we always view it through the lens of our own ______ and ______

Answer 4

Beliefs; Values

Question 5

Our instant ________ shape our fear, impressions, and relationships

Answer 5

intuitions

Question 6

Social _________ shapes our behaviours

Answer 6

influence

Question 7

Personal attitudes and __________ also shape our behaviour

Answer 7

dispositions

Question 8

Social Behaviour is _________ rooted

Answer 8

biologically

Question 9

__________ Cognition: The view that cognition and mental processes arise from the interaction of our body and the world around us

Answer 9

Embodied.

Question 10

Systematic _________ and e_________ help us clean the lens through which we see reality

Answer 10

observation and experimentation

Question 11

Errors in judging the future’s foreseeability and in remembering our past combine to create _______ bias

Answer 11

hindsight

Question 12

Predictions give ________ to research

Answer 12

direction

Question 13

_______ are ideas that summarise and explain facts and that also imply testable predictions

Answer 13

theories

Question 14

A good theory summarises many _________ and makes clear _________

Answer 14

observations; predictions

Question 15

Do social psychologists use experimental or field research more?

Answer 15

Experimental nearly 3/4 of the time

Question 16

What are the two main ingredients of every Social Psychology experiment?

Answer 16

Control; Random assignment

Question 17

________ realism: Degree to which an experiment is superficially similar to everyday life

Answer 17

Mundane

Question 18

________ realism: Degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants

Answer 18

Experimental

Question 19

__________ involves immersing yourself in the participants’ world so that you can observe it from within and discover how it operates

Answer 19

Ethnography

Question 20

_______ analysis: A type of analysis in which researchers identify the main themes and sub themes within a set of data

Answer 20

Thematic

Question 21

_________: The situation that occurs when different types of data or research methods point to the same conclusions

Answer 21

Triangulation

Question 22

________ assumes that there is a social reality that is objective and can be observed and measured

Answer 22

Positivism:

Question 23

______ realism: believes in a seperate reality that can be measured, but recognise that our perceptions and behaviours interact with that reality

Answer 23

Social

Question 24

Social _________: The view that truth claims are socially created or constructed

Answer 24

Constructivism

Question 25

What are the three main epistemological positions?

Answer 25

Positivism; Social Realism; Social Constructivism

Question 26

_______ analysis: Method of analysis in which researchers explore how meaning is constructed through words and ideas

Answer 26

Discourse

Question 27

How we perceive the world is know as social ________.

Answer 27

thinking

Question 28

Culture, groups, and persuasion are all social _________

Answer 28

influence

Question 29

prejudice, aggression, and attraction are all social ________

Answer 29

Relations

Question 30

When groups come together and form an opinion together it is known as a _________ mind

Answer 30

collective

Question 31

The first social psychological experiment was about social _________

Answer 31

facilitation

Question 32

In the 1960's - 1970's Social Psychology had a crisis as it seemed overly ___________ and overly ___________

Answer 32

reductionist; positivistic

Question 33

________ __: Tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one's ability to have foreseen what would happen

Answer 33

Hindsight bias

Question 34

_________ realism: Striving for similarity of everyday situations

Answer 34

mundane

Question 35

There is higher _______ validity and lower ______ validity when an experiment is in a naturalistic setting

Answer 35

External; Internal

Question 36

__________ validity: Results obtained due to manipulation of IV

Answer 36

Internal

Question 37

_________ validity - ability to generalise to the 'real' world

Answer 37

external

Question 38

Social ________ - social world is product of social and historically situation practices

Answer 38

constructionism

Question 39

__________: a set of beliefs and practices that identify a specific social group and distinguish it from another

Answer 39

Culture

Question 40

Social psychology is Social _____: Theory and data derive from a particular cultural backround

Answer 40

bound

Question 41

Social psychology is Social _____: theories and data not tested beyond host or dominant culture

Answer 41

blind

Question 42

_______ __________ is the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another

Answer 42

Social Psychology

Question 43

__________: reducing behaviour to the individual level, and ignoring the social context

Answer 43

Reductionism

Question 44

One major rule of social psychology is that we ________ our social psychology

Answer 44

construct

Question 45

Social __________'s shape our behaviour

Answer 45

Influences

Question 46

Is mundane realism wanted in the laboratory setting?

Answer 46

Yes, similar to everyday situations

Question 47

Is experimental realise wanted in laboratory or naturalistic settings?

Answer 47

Experimental settings

Question 48

Do experiments have low or high EXTERNAL validity?

Answer 48

Low