Social Psychology Exam 1 Practice Questions and Answers
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Social Psychology
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Social Psychology
Social Psychology Exam 1 Practice
Questions and Answers
Construal - Answer️️ -...how people perceive their environment and
experiences
Why do social psychologists study construal rather than simple objective
environments of people? - Answer️️ -People's behavior depends on their
interp...
Social Psychology Exam 1 Practice
Questions and Answers
Construal - Answer✔️✔️-...how people perceive their environment and
experiences
Why do social psychologists study construal rather than simple objective
environments of people? - Answer✔️✔️-People's behavior depends on their
interpretation or construal of their social environment and it is important to
understand why people behave the way they do
Compare and contrast social psychology with sociology and personality
psychology. - Answer✔️✔️-Personality psychology focuses on individual
differences. Social psychologists believe that explaining behavior through
personality ignores the critical role of social influence. Sociology focuses on
analysis at the level of the group or institution. The goal of social
psychology is to identify universal properties of human nature that make
everyone susceptible to social influence regardless of class or culture.
Define the fundamental attribution error. - Answer✔️✔️-...the tendency to
explain our own and other people's behavior entirely in terms of
personality traits; to underestimate the power of social influence and to
overestimate the impact of personal disposition
Identify the consequences of making the fundamental attribution error and
underestimating the power of the situation. - Answer✔️✔️-By failing to fully
appreciate the power of the situation, we tend to oversimplify the problem,
which then decreases our understanding of the causes of many human
actions.
Explain how social psychology is influenced by behaviorism and Gestalt
psychology. - Answer✔️✔️-Behaviorism is the belief that looking at the
external factors of a subject's environment helps us understand human
behavior. The Gestalt psychology stresses the importance of studying the
subjective way in which an object appears in people's minds rather than the
objective physical attributes of the object, so social surroundings could
influence the subjective perception of an object. Social psychology is a
combination of both because it analyzes the external factors (behaviorism)
and the internal factors (Gestalt).
Identify two basic motives that underlie people's construal. - Answer✔️✔️-
The esteem approach is the need to feel good about ourselves and to justify
our past behaviors, suffering and self justification.
The social cognition approach is the need to be accurate (try to understand
and predict) on expectations (self fulfilling prophecy), and other motives
such as biological drives and need for control.
Explain how expectations about the social world interfere with people's
desire for accuracy? - Answer✔️✔️-The self-fulfilling prophecy makes us feel
the need to fill gaps that we don't know so we use expectations to fill them
in and interpret the world around us. We use schemas and apply them to
similar experiences we've had in the past.
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