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PSYC 275 exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| availability heuristic | mental rule of thumb whereby people base a judgment on the ease with which they can bring something to mind |
| representativeness heuristic | a mental shortcut whereby people classify something according to how similar it is to a typical case |
| judgmental heuristic | mental shortcuts people use to make judgments quickly and efficiently |
| external attribution | the inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something about the situation they are in, assumption is that most people would respond the same way in that situation |
| attribution theories | a description of the way in which people explain the causes of their own and other people's behavior |
| social cognition | we need accurate understandings to make effective judgments and decisions |
| two step attribution process | make an internal attribution (quick and spontaneous) adjust attribution by considering situation |
| schemas | mental structures we use to organize our knowledge about the social world around themes or subjects |
| fundamental attribution error | tendency to explain our own and other people's behavior entirely in terms of personality traits, we underestimate the power of social influence |
| external validity | extent to which the results can be generalized beyond the immediate study, will they work if applied to different settings or groups |
| relation between severity of initiation to join a group and how much initiates like the group | the more harsh the punishment is, the better relief and bonded they are |
| cultural differences in nonverbal communication | eye contact interpreted differently, differences in nonverbal gestures |
| internal attribution | the inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about the person such as attitude, character, or personality |
| informed consent | agreement to participate in an experiment, granted in full awareness of the nature of the experiment, which has been explained in advance |
| sociology | study of groups, organizations, and societies, rather than individuals |
| explanation of mass suicide at Jonestown | strong social conditions, narcissistic and convincing leader, belief in their faith |
| social psychology | the scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people |
| ethics in research | informed consent deception institutional review board |
| power posing | idea that you can project power with your body and build confidence that way, debunked and not replicated in any other study |
| belief in a just world | a form of defensive attribution wherein people assume that bad things happen to bad people and good things happen to good people, more prevalent in cultures with extreme differences in wealth |
| encoding and decoding facial expressions | encode or express these emotions in the same way decode or interpret with equal accuracy |
| construals | the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world |
| priming studies | process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of schema, trait, or concept |
| belief in free will | more intolerance for LGBTQ+ people, more punishment oriented, acceptance of economic inequality less cheating, more helping, well being |
| social cognition motive | need to be accurate |
| internal validity | confidence we can place in the cause and effect relationship in a study, only applicable when causal statements are being made |
| deception | misleading participants about the true purpose of a study or the events that will actually transpire |
| correlational research | two or more variable sources systematically measured and the relation between them is assessed |
| automatic thinking | effortless, no mental energy |
| counterfactual thinking | when a person modifies a factual prior event, influences our emotional reactions to events |
| speed of initial impression formation | less than 100 milliseconds |
| belief perserverance | the tendency to stick with an initial judgment even in the face of new information that should prompt us to reconsider |
| universally recognized facial expressions | anger, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness |
| controlled thinking | trying to actively solve problem, takes mental energy |
| meta analysis | statistical technique that averages the results of two or more studies to see if the effect of an independent variable is reliable |
| field experiments | use real life setting to observe people, participants are unaware they are in an experiment |
| Middlemist study | researcher hid in stall and sued a periscope to observe and record urination of 60 men |
| institutional review board | group of scientist, nonscientist, and unaffiliated member who review all psychological research at that institution and decides if it meets ethical guidelines, research must be approved before beginning |
| self esteem motive | need to feel good about ourselves |
| personality psychology | focus on individual differences- ignores power of social influence |
| Milgram study | obedience to shock people, experiences harm during experiment, 85% glad they participated |
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