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Socialpsych 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| social psychology | scientific study of thoughts, feelings, and behavior by real, imagined, or implied presence of others; the wat typical people think, feel behave and influence each other |
| experimenter effects | when the experimenter knows the hypothesis and acts a certain way to sway how the results go in a study |
| demand characteristics | when the participant knows the hypothesis and will act a certain way to sway the results |
| social psych vs sociology | psych looks more at the individual differences and the immediate variables and manipulations |
| norman triplett | first researcher in social psych; bicyclists ride faster when racing against another person |
| max ringelmann | french agricultural engineer who studied performance around others, found that people performed worse on small tasks when they performed them with other people |
| william mddougall, edward ross | first social psych books |
| floyd allport | interaction and experimentation |
| the looking glass self | cooley; we see ourselves when we look at peoples reactions of things that we do |
| reflected appraisals | what other people think of us; teachers concepts of intelligence and asian girls said they were either girls or asian then said how good they were at math and based it off of stereotype |
| generalized other | the general reflected appraisal of the whole group |
| self presentation | acting or presenting ourselves a certain way to create a certain impression |
| self monitoring | difference in extent of self presentation |
| social comparison | upward- better than you; downward- worse than you |
| mr dirty/ mr clean | self- esteem questionnaire done before and after meeting either a clean or dirty man going for same interview to test how people compare themselves to others |
| milgrim | obedience of nazi soldiers; shocking machine; is his study unethical? historically and culturally limited? are there experimenter expectancies? |
| pluralism | range of research techniques and a multi method investigation to increase confidence |
| social cognition | how people perceive, remember, and interpret information about themselves and others |
| social neuroscience | social and neuro processes |
| behavioral genetics | genetic factors in behavior |
| culture | system of beliefs, values, assumptions, institutions, and practices shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next |
| construct validity | measures designed to measure what they are supposed to and variables supposed to manipulate what they are supposed to |
| interrator reliability | researchers agree on their findings |
| mundane realism | the degree to which the experimental situation resembles places and events in the real world |
| experimental realism | the degree to which the experimental procedures are involving to participants and leads them to behave naturally and spontaneously |
| confederate | pretend participant |
| meta- analysis | set of procedures used to review a body of evidence by combining results of past experiments to see if there is reliability and strength of effects |
| archival study | study existing records to see connections |
| quasi- experimental | cause and effect. people are in groups already and you randomly assign them to condition |
| the "me" | i am... people's thoughts about themselves |
| the "I" | the thinker, doer, feeler |
| two factor theory of emotion | 1. we experience generalized arousal 2. we examine the situation for an explanation for the arousal |
| happy guy/ pissed off guy | schacter and Singer; to test the 2 factory theory of emotion; injected with adrenalin and then become aroused based on emotions of people around them |
| Bem's self- perception theory | in absence of strong internal cues, we draw conclusions about our emotions based off of our behavior. I am crying, so i must be sad. |
| affective forecasting | predicting what we are going to feel in response to a future emotional event |
| facial feedback hypothesis | changes in facial expression can lead to changes in emotion |
| over justification effect | intrinsic motivation can diminish when activities are associated with reward |
| terror management theory | humans make religion and reasons for existence in order to cope with fear of dying |
| self awareness theory | self focused attention leads to noticed self- discrepancies, motivating escape from self- awareness or change in behavior |
| implicit egotism | non conscious forms of self- enhancement |
| self- handicapping | behaviors that sabotage one's own performance as to provide an excuse for failure |
| bask in reflected glory (BIRG) | increase one's own self- esteem by associating with successful people |
| self- presentation | strategies people use to shape what others think of them |