Embodied cognition - ️️focuses on the close links between our minds and
the positioning, experiences, and actions of our bodies (ex: students sitting
straight up have higher self-esteem than those sitting in a slumped position)
The scientific method - ️️a set of techniques used to invest...
Social Psych 2533 Exam 1 (UTSA)
Embodied cognition - ✔️✔️focuses on the close links between our minds and
the positioning, experiences, and actions of our bodies (ex: students sitting
straight up have higher self-esteem than those sitting in a slumped position)
The scientific method - ✔️✔️a set of techniques used to investigate a phenomenon.
Hindsight Bias - ✔️✔️the tendency to be overconfident about whether we could
have predicted an already known outcome
Confirmation Bias - ✔️✔️the tendency to seek out and favor/evaluate information
that agrees with our beliefs.
Social Cognition - ✔️✔️the study of how we perceive, remember, and
interpret information about ourselves and others
social psychology - ✔️✔️the study of the feelings, thoughts and behaviors of an
individual in a social context.
Culture - ✔️✔️a system of enduring meanings, beliefs, values, assumptions,
institutions, and practices shared by a large group of people and transmitted
from one generation to the next
Behavioral genetics: - ✔️✔️investigates the role of genes on behavior
Evolutionary psychology: - ✔️✔️uses principles of evolution to understand human
behavior
Social Neuroscience - ✔️✔️the study of the relationship between neural and
social processes (ex: how playing violent video games can affect brain
activity/acts of aggression)
The "hot" perspective - ✔️✔️suggests that emotion and motivation drive our
thoughts/actions.
The "cold" perspective - ✔️✔️suggests that cognition is the driving force of
thoughts/actions
Cross-cultural research - ✔️✔️evaluates similarities and differences across a variety of
cultures
, Multicultural research - ✔️✔️examines racial and ethnic groups within cultures
Hypothesis: - ✔️✔️an explicit, testable prediction about the conditions under which an
event will occur
Theory: - ✔️✔️a well-established, working explanation of a phenomenon.
Conceptual variables - ✔️✔️abstract or general variables (personality: makes person
different/abstract from others)
Operational definitions - ✔️✔️how the conceptual variable will be manipulated.
Internal Validity: - ✔️✔️the degree to which there can be reasonable certainty that
the independent variables
External Validity: - ✔️✔️the degree to which there can be reasonable confidence that
the results of an experiment affect his or her own behavior toward a participant and
thereby influence the participants' responses.
Experimental Realism: - ✔️✔️extent to which the experiment is compelling to
Participants
Mundane Realism: - ✔️✔️extent to which the experiment is similar to real world
situations
Replication - ✔️✔️conducting experiment in different samples, using different
statistical techniques
Interrater Reliability: - ✔️✔️the degree to which different observers agree on
their observations
Meta-Analysis - ✔️✔️a set of statistical procedures used to review a body of
evidence by combining the results of individual studies to measure the overall reliability
and strength of particular effects
Case Studies: - ✔️✔️a detailed description of a particular individual under study or
treatment. Advantages: good source of behavior analysis. Disadvantages: hard to
generalize from a single case
Naturalistic Observation: - ✔️✔️observing behavior as it occurs in the natural
environment. Advantages: more natural behavior occurs. Disadvantages: cannot
control extraneous variables.
Laboratory Observation: - ✔️✔️observe behavior within a controlled setting.
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