Myers Social Psych Final
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Social psychology is the scientific study of | how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. |
| Contemporary social psychology emphasizes the | power of the situation. power of the person. applicability of social psychological principles. |
| Social psychology is to _____________ as sociology is to ________________. | individuals; groups |
| Evolutionary psychologists argue that the forces of natural selection predispose us | to particular actions and reactions when dating and mating. |
| Which of the following examples is a question a social psychologist would be most likely to study? | In deciding how people will vote in an election, are individuals more influenced by one persuasive medium than by another? |
| Social neuroscientists seek to understand | the neurobiology that underlies social behavior. |
| Personality psychologists are more interested in _______________, while social psychologists more likely focus on _____________________. | individual differences; our common humanity |
| Values can subtly influence science by guiding | scientists' assumptions and preconceptions. the labels scientists use for their concepts. scientists' thoughts about what ought to be. |
| Common assumptions often go unchallenged among a group of scholars who share the same | culture. |
| Which of the following psychological terms reflects a disguised value judgment? | well-adjusted mentally ill self-actualized |
| "The way things are is the way they ought to be." This statement reflects the | naturalistic fallacy. |
| Two contradictory criticisms faced by social psychology are that its findings are obvious and that | its findings could be used to manipulate people. |
| An integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events is called | theory |
| A research hypothesis is a | testable prediction. |
| When theories are discarded, it is usually because they | have been displaced by newer, better theories. |
| The great strength of correlational survey research is that is | studies factors in real-world settings that cannot be manipulated in the laboratory. |
| The great disadvantage of correlational research is that | it does not specify cause and effect. |
| Which research method have social psychologists used in about three-fourths of their studies? | experimental |
| An experimenter exposes participants to different temperature levels to determine its effect on aggression. Temperature is the | independent variable. |
| In a psychological experiment, the factor being measured is called the __________ variable. | dependent |
| Manipulating one or two factors while holding others constant is the essence of | experimental control. |
| When the laboratory experiment is superficially similar to everyday situations, the experiment is said to be high in | mundane realism. |
| When the laboratory experiment deeply absorbs and involves participants, the experiment has | experimental realism. |
| In comparison to the sociologist, the social psychologist | is more likely to study individuals than groups. |
| To determine whether changing one variable (like education) will produce changes in another (like income), we need to conduct __________________ research. | experimental |
| According to the text, ___________________ tends to make people overconfident about the validity of their judgments and predictions. | the hindsight bias. |
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