Social psychology Chapter 1 Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Social psychology | The scientific field that seeks to understand the nature and causes of individual behavior and though in social situations |
| Evolutionary psychology | Seeks to understand the potential role of genetic factors in various aspects of human behavior |
| Social neuroscience | Seeks knowledge about the neural and biological bases of social behavior |
| multicultural perspective | A focus on understanding the cultural and ethnic factors that influence social behavior |
| Systematic observation | an area in research in which behavior is systematically observed and recorded |
| Survey method | A method in which a large number of people answer questions about their attitudes or behavior |
| Correlational method | Observes two or more variables to determine whether changes in one are accommpanied by changes in the other |
| Hypothesis | An unvertified prediction concerning some aspect of social behavior or social thought |
| Experimental Method | A method in which one or more factors are systematically changed to determine whether such variations affect one or more other factors |
| Independent variable | The variable that is changed in an experiment |
| dependent variable | The variable that is measured in an experiment |
| random assignment of participants to experimental conditions | A basic requirement for conducting experiments, All participants must have an equal chance of being exposed to each level of independent variable |
| External validity | The extent in which findings of an experiment can be generalized to real life social situations and perhaps different people |
| Mediating variable | A variable that is affected by an indepedent variable and then influences a dependent variable |
| Theories | Attempts to understand why certain events or processes occur as they do |
| Deception | A technique whereby researchers withhold information about the purposes or procedures of the study |
| Informed Consent | Participants are provided with as much info as possible about the study before deciding whether to participate |
| Debriefing | Procedure at the conclusion of the research session in which participants are given full info about the nature of the research and hypothesis |
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