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Test 1 Study Guides CH 1 3 5 CH 1 How does social psychology study human behavior thoughts and feelings Ask questions that can be empirically tested Ask questions about how people relate and view one another Why is it difficult to define social psychology There are many parts to the study of social psychology We are bio psycho social organisms How does social psychology relate to sociology and other areas of psychology They all focus on how people feel and think compared to sociology social psychology focuses more on individuals and experimentations Compared to personality psychology it focuses on how individuals view and relate to one another Sociology Which field is most closely related to social psychology and often studied in unison What does social psychology focus on How people think about relate and influence one another How we construct our social world How our social intuitions guide and sometimes deceive us How our social behavior is shaped by other people our attitudes and our biology How social psychological principles apply to our everyday lives How did behaviorism and Freudian psychoanalysis contribute to the field of social Automatic and unconscious vs conscious and controlled We have unconscious desired that control our actions Our behavior can be conditioned What important 20 th century event stimulated interest in social psychology and why did psychology it do so Nazi trials in WW2 because we were shocked that people so easily listened to directions even though they were cruel Milgram Experiment tested the extent that people would follow directions even though they did not want to and knew they were harming another person What are some of the most important common themes of social psychology what do they mean and why are they important Power of the Situation Determines our limitations and possibilities The situation you are in determines how you act and present yourself Biological Roots We are evolved cultural animals but the world we live in is different that the world we evolved in We construct our Reality There is an objective reality but we view it through our own lens of beliefs and values We try to make sense of everything around us We have duplex minds that enable intuitions Unconscious thought processes affect our decisions and actions Selfish impulse vs social conscience Nature tells us go but culture says stop so we have competing internal and external drives Focus on self Self esteem Self control Self awareness Self Presentation Gender Issue Racial Issues Post 9 11 Conflict and Social Prejudice Group Dynamics Social Loafing and positively control your life Affect How people feel Behavior What people do Cognition What people think Concepts are important because they teach us about life and how to gain friends What is the ABC triad and how does it apply to what social psychologists do It helps have a broad understanding of how people think act and feel Research Methods How does labeling relate to bias in research and what are some examples of this Depending on how you label something could affect a person s opinion of it If observers except a certain outcome they may see this more regularly ie Fans see more faults on other team than their own Why can t we just use common sense to tell us about social psychology Experiments reveal outcomes that are obvious after the testing has been done What is the hindsight bias Once you learn the outcome of something you have a tendency to over exaggerate the fake that you already knew it I knew it all along What is a theory and what does your book say about the comparison between evolutionary theory and the theory of gravity A theory is an integrated set of principles that predict and explain observed events Evolution is just a theory but so is gravity What can and can t correlational research tell us about human behavior thoughts and feelings Correlational studies discern the relationships between variables Shows us if two variables are correlated Correlation does not equal causation A third variable could be affecting the What does it mean for two variables to be positively correlated with one another Negatively correlated with one another Positive correlation is when one increases or decreases the other does the same Negative correlation is when one increases or decreases the other does the What can correlation coefficients range from What does the sign mean 1 to 1 The sign represents the direction of the relationship Positive Negative What is the 3 rd variable problem with correlational research Two events may correlate but there could be another variable causing them to results opposite correlate ie Ice cream sales have a positive correlation with murder rates but ice cream does not cause murder Correlational research allows us to predict but not confirm causation What are some of the unintended influences on survey research Responding with desirable answers instead of true one s Order of questions Wording of questions What is the goal and what are the features of experimental research A control group a manipulated variable a response variable and random assignment are key features They set up cause and effect environments in order to determine the cause of a change Why are these features important for achieving the goal of experimental research These features are important because an experiment must be done under controlled settings in order to produce valid results What are independent and dependent variables Independent variable is the manipulated one Dependent variable is the one recorded that is expected to change from the manipulate one What is an operational definition and why is it important An operational definition is how you define a construct within the experiment Setting a specific and constant definition of the variables It is important because different people could have a different idea of what a variable is By clearly defining it we eliminate error Ie what do we mean by aggression What are the ways in which we evaluate a measure we that we are using to assess a certain construct Reliability Consistency Test Retest If subjects are given the same assessment multiple times how constant would the results stay Inter rater If two judges judged the results how consistent would the results be Consistency between raters Validity Accuracy measuring Internal How well is the experiment measuring what it should be External How can it be generalized to the public Concurrent How well do these results match


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