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1
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Does social psychology or sociology focus more on the individual and their influence?

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Social psychology

2
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Social Psychology is the study of:

  • Social _____
  • Social _____
  • Social _____
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Thinking; Influence; Relations

3
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One big idea is Social Psychology is that we construct our ______ ______

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social reality

4
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There may be an objective reality out there, but we always view it through the lens of our own ______ and ______

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Beliefs; Values

5
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Our instant ________ shape our fear, impressions, and relationships

A

intuitions

6
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Social _________ shapes our behaviours

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influence

7
Q

Personal attitudes and __________ also shape our behaviour

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dispositions

8
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Social Behaviour is _________ rooted

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biologically

9
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__________ Cognition: The view that cognition and mental processes arise from the interaction of our body and the world around us

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Embodied.

10
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Systematic _________ and e_________ help us clean the lens through which we see reality

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observation and experimentation

11
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Errors in judging the future’s foreseeability and in remembering our past combine to create _______ bias

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hindsight

12
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Predictions give ________ to research

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direction

13
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_______ are ideas that summarise and explain facts and that also imply testable predictions

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theories

14
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A good theory summarises many _________ and makes clear _________

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observations; predictions

15
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Do social psychologists use experimental or field research more?

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Experimental nearly 3/4 of the time

16
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What are the two main ingredients of every Social Psychology experiment?

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Control; Random assignment

17
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________ realism: Degree to which an experiment is superficially similar to everyday life

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Mundane

18
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________ realism: Degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants

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Experimental

19
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__________ involves immersing yourself in the participants’ world so that you can observe it from within and discover how it operates

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Ethnography

20
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_______ analysis: A type of analysis in which researchers identify the main themes and sub themes within a set of data

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Thematic

21
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_________: The situation that occurs when different types of data or research methods point to the same conclusions

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Triangulation

22
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________ assumes that there is a social reality that is objective and can be observed and measured

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Positivism:

23
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______ realism: believes in a seperate reality that can be measured, but recognise that our perceptions and behaviours interact with that reality

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Social

24
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Social _________: The view that truth claims are socially created or constructed

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Constructivism

25
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What are the three main epistemological positions?

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Positivism; Social Realism; Social Constructivism

26
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_______ analysis: Method of analysis in which researchers explore how meaning is constructed through words and ideas

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Discourse

27
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How we perceive the world is know as social ________.

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thinking

28
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Culture, groups, and persuasion are all social _________

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influence

29
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prejudice, aggression, and attraction are all social ________

A

Relations

30
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When groups come together and form an opinion together it is known as a _________ mind

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collective

31
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The first social psychological experiment was about social _________

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facilitation

32
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In the 1960’s - 1970’s Social Psychology had a crisis as it seemed overly ___________ and overly ___________

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reductionist; positivistic

33
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________ __: Tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one’s ability to have foreseen what would happen

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Hindsight bias

34
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_________ realism: Striving for similarity of everyday situations

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mundane

35
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There is higher _______ validity and lower ______ validity when an experiment is in a naturalistic setting

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External; Internal

36
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__________ validity: Results obtained due to manipulation of IV

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Internal

37
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_________ validity - ability to generalise to the ‘real’ world

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external

38
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Social ________ - social world is product of social and historically situation practices

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constructionism

39
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__________: a set of beliefs and practices that identify a specific social group and distinguish it from another

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Culture

40
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Social psychology is Social _____: Theory and data derive from a particular cultural backround

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bound

41
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Social psychology is Social _____: theories and data not tested beyond host or dominant culture

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blind

42
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_______ __________ is the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another

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Social Psychology

43
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__________: reducing behaviour to the individual level, and ignoring the social context

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Reductionism

44
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One major rule of social psychology is that we ________ our social psychology

A

construct

45
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Social __________’s shape our behaviour

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Influences

46
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Is mundane realism wanted in the laboratory setting?

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Yes, similar to everyday situations

47
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Is experimental realise wanted in laboratory or naturalistic settings?

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Experimental settings

48
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Do experiments have low or high EXTERNAL validity?

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Low