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PSY370 quiz #1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the definition of social psychology? | The scientific study of how our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the people around us |
| What was Phillip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment? | A psychological experiment where they took a group of college students and assigned half the group the role of "prisoner" and the other half the role of "guard." In the end, the "prisoners" ended up becoming actually violent towards the guards |
| What is the person-situation interaction? | behavior = f (person, social situation) |
| What is the definition of fitness? | refers to the extent to which having a given characteristic helps the individual organism to survive and to reproduce at a higher rate than do other members of the species who do not have the characteristic |
| What is the definition of self-concern? | The motivation to protect and enhance the self and others who are close to us. |
| What is the definition of other-concern? | The motivation to affiliate with, accept, and be accepted by others. |
| What is the definition of kin selection? | strategies that favor the reproductive success of one’s relatives, sometimes even at a cost to the individual’s own survival |
| What is the definition of ingroup | those whom we view as being similar and important to us and with whom we share close social connections |
| What is the definition of social norms? | the ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving that are shared by group members and perceived by them as appropriate |
| What is the definition of culture? | group of people, normally living within a given geographical region, who share a common set of social norms, including religious and family values and moral beliefs |
| What is the definition of individualism? | cultural norms, common in Western societies, that focus primarily on self-enhancement and independence. |
| What is the definition of collectivism? | Cultural norms, common in Eastern countries, indicate that people should be more fundamentally connected with others and, thus, oriented toward interdependence. |
| What are the ABC's of social psychology? | Affect, behavior, cognition |
| What is the definition of social cognition? | cognition that relates to social activities and that helps us understand and predict the behavior of ourselves and others |
| What is the definition of hindsight bias? | The tendency to think that we could have predicted something that we probably would not have been able to predict. |
| What is the definition of Schema? | A knowledge representation that includes information about a person or a group. |
| What is Social Exchange Theory? | When the cost of a relationship outweighs the perceived benefits, the relationship ends. |
| What is Observational Research used for? | To create a snapshot of the current state of affairs. |
| What is Correlational research used for? | To access the relationship between two or more variables. |
| What is experimental research used for? | To access the casual impact of one or more experimental manipulations on the dependent variable. |
| What is looking glass self? | When we receive constant feedback from others. |
| What is Social Comparison? | When we compare ourselves to others to learn whether we are good or not. |
| What is Social Learning? | When we observe and imitate the behavior of others. |
| What is Socialization? | Social norms + Guidelines. |
| What is Self-fulfilling prophecy? | An affect that occurs when our expectations about others lead us to behave towards others in ways that make those expectations come true. Our behavior will create evidence to support our prior schemas or believes. |
| What are self reporting measures? | measures in which individuals are asked to respond to questions posed by an interview or on a questionnaire. |
| What are behavioral measures? | Measures designed to directly assess what people do. |
| What is electroencephalography(EEG)? | a technique that records the electrical activity produced by the brain’s neurons through the use of electrodes that are placed around the research participant’s head. |
| What is Functional magnetic resonance(FMRI)? | a neuroimaging technique that uses a magnetic field to create images of brain structure and function. |
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