Social Psychology Chapter 1 & 2 Exam Questions With Correct Answers.
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Social Psychology
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Social Psychology
Social Psychology Chapter 1 & 2 Exam
Questions With Correct Answers.
Social Psychology - answerscientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context
Scientific Study - answerempirically grounded test ideas supported by evidence
requires science
-think back to the firs...
Social Psychology Chapter 1 & 2 Exam
Questions With Correct Answers.
Social Psychology - answer✔scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context
Scientific Study - answer✔empirically grounded test ideas supported by evidence
requires science
-think back to the first time you learned about WWll;wondered why that all happened and how, is there
anything unique about the people who carried it out or can any human being do that?
Would ordinary people obey orders to harm an innocent person? - answer✔look further into the
question...
ask friends, look in books, see if there are studies done on it already, moves + TV let us have experiences
we may never have
Milgram Experiment - answer✔experiment on obedience to an authoritative figure
measured participants to obey an authoritative figure who instructed them to perform tasks conflicting
with their consciousness (electric shocks)
66% actually did it
What does social psychology rely on? - answer✔scientific method
not intuition or casual observations
What does the scientific method involve? - answer✔forming a hypothesis
systematically testing the hypothesis
organizing ideas and findings into theories
What other social sciences does social psychology differ from? - answer✔economics, political science,
sociology and anthropology
In social psychology, what is the focus on? - answer✔the individual
Social Belonging and GPA - Can we prevent the "belonging uncertainty" that often plagues
underrepresented university students? - answer✔took half and said everyone feels that way, it'll get
better
didn't say anything to the other half
4 years later: if you said they belonged, they had higher GPAS
**Doesn't impact white people***
How are social psychology and sociology related? - answer✔similar training and often publish in the
same journals
both can help to understand immediate and societal factors that influence behavior
How are social psychology and sociology different? - answer✔sociology tends to focus on group level
but social psych tends to focus on individual level
How are social psychology and personality psych different? - answer✔personality psych-stable
differences between indvs.
social psych-how social factors affect most indvs. regardless of their personality
How are social psychology and personality psych related? - answer✔closely linked, complement each
other
examine the interaction between situational factors and indv. different
joint journals and societies
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