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Socail Psych Test 1
CH 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is social psychology? | the scientific field that seeks to understand the nature and causes of individual behavior and thoughts in social situations |
| What do social psychologists focus on? | understanding how and why individuals behave, think, feel as they do in social situations involving the actual or imagined presence of other people |
| Why is social psychology scientific in nature? | Accuracy, objectivity, skepticism, open-mindedness |
| What are the different factors/conditions that influence social behavior? | social interactions, cognitive processes, environment, culture, biology |
| What are the current trends in social psychology? | cognition and behavior, social neuroscience, role of implicit processes, taking full account of diversity, critical social psychology |
| Cognition and Behavior Trend? | we cannot understand why and how people behave in certain ways in social situations without considering their thoughts, memory, intentions, emotions, attitudes and beliefs |
| Social Neuroscience Trend? | Area of research that seeks knowledge about the neural and biological bases of social processes |
| Social Neuroscience Prejudice example? | o High warmth-high competence: own group (pride) o High warmth-low competence: disabled, elderly (envy) o Low warmth-high competence: rich (pity) o Low warmth-low competence: homeless, drug addicts (disgust) |
| Role of Implicit processes trend? | Our thoughts and actions are shaped by factors which we are unaware of and often take place in an automatic manner |
| Role of Implicit Process research example? | tested 3 mo babies to look at photos of their own race and another race and record time |
| Taking full account of diversity trend? | Sensitive to the fact that an individual’s culture, ethnic, and racial heritage often play a key role in social behavior |
| Multicultural perspective on diversity? | research findings obtained from one culture do not necessarily generalize to other cultures |
| Critical social psychology trend? | Taking reflexivity and multiple perspectives as important aspects of the research process; linking research and action |
| How do social psychologists answer the questions they raise? | Systematic development and testing of a theory about human behavior & mental events;Disciplined inquiry into human thinking, feeling, and behavior |
| Goals of social psychologist when raising questions? | describe, explain, predict, control |
| Scientific Method? | role of theory, methodology, ethics; systematically acquire knowledge and understanding about behavior |
| Undertaking of psychology? | develop suppositions about behavior and determine which of those suppositions are accurate |
| Scientific Method Step 1? | Select topic and identify questions |
| SM Step 2? | Formulate an explanation |
| SM step 3? | Carry out research |
| Experimental research? | controlled test of a hypothesis in which the researcher manipulates (changes) one variable to discover the effect on another |
| true experiments have?? | • Random assignment: chance assignment to condition • Holding variables constant: controlling other variables to prevent them from influencing results |
| External validity? | can the findings be generalized to real-life social situations and to other people? |
| Qualitative research method? | Epistemology and the role of theorizing. 1.Inductive reasoning 2.Interpretive theorizing |
| QR Step 1 | Acknowledge social self; adopt a perspective research question and its related theoretical philosophical paradigm |
| QR Step 2 | Design, collect, analyze, and interpret data; often simultaneously going back and forth between steps |
| QR Step 3 | Interpret stage: create new concepts and emphasize constructing theoretical interpretations |
| QR methods | Participation action research,Phenomenology/ study of lives,Ethnography,discourse |
| Ethical issues? | right of individual-deception. 1.informed consent 2. debriefing |
| What can social psychology offer humanistic psychology? | What are humans all about? What makes humans grow and strive? |
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mcapers1
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