Social Psychology Exam 1 Questions With Correct Answers
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Social Psychology
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Social Psychology
Social Psychology Exam 1 Questions With
Correct Answers
What do social psychologists study? - answer-how people think, act, and feel
-the motivations of social psychologists include the mysteries of human behavior, resolving
philosophical issues, and understanding/suggesting how to solve social...
Social Psychology Exam 1 Questions With
Correct Answers
What do social psychologists study? - answer✔-how people think, act, and feel
-the motivations of social psychologists include the mysteries of human behavior, resolving
philosophical issues, and understanding/suggesting how to solve social problems
Why do we consider social psychology a hub science? - answer✔the principles informed by theories and
research in other areas of psychological research and in turn informs these fields on their findings
What are some of the other fields that intersect with social psychology? - answer✔cognitive, biological,
clinical, cultural, development, and personality psychologies
What are some of the major assumptions of evolutionary theory? - answer✔-we had challenges in our
ancestral environment
-differential survival and reproduction
-innate tendencies and preferences at the species level
Why do we look at our ancestral pasts to inform our theories about modern social life? - answer✔offers
insight into behavior patterns that do not seem personally adaptive or socially useful
What is the nature vs nurture debate? - answer✔the question of whether human behavior is driven by
innate biological forces or the product of our learning and environment
Where do we currently stand on genetic x environment influences on social behavior? - answer✔we
stand on the fact that these two are both in effect together for human behavior
what does WEIRD stand for? - answer✔Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic
Why has psychology relied on WEIRD samples? - answer✔-these people are easier to study in the sense
that they are easier to reach
-scientists try to eliminate small differences, so they make the sample as homogenous as possible
How does this limit research in social psychology? - answer✔WEIRD participants are affected by
something that does qualify and prove the behaviors/effects of other people across the world. not
everyone comes from the same background as WEIRD people, so the results are not going to be the
same
Why is studying social behavior so difficult? - answer✔Most of the behaviors and thoughts come from
internally so it's hard to prove what the participant is saying or thinking is true
Why do so many answers in social psychology start with it depends? - answer✔because every individual
thinks and reacts differently within many varying possible instances
What global event sparked the creation of soical psychology? - answer✔WW2
-common sense, hindsight bias, lack of contact between cultures, and spotlight of science
What are the stages of the scientific method? - answer✔1.) observation
2.) theory construction (induction)
3.) Hypothesis generation (deduction)
4.) Verification
Why do we used the scientific method to study social behavior? - answer✔-it is an ongoing process
-don't always start at "step 1"
-same criteria for all areas of science
What are the non-scientific ways of knowing? - answer✔wisdom, religion, philosophy, and implicit
psychology
people are often unaware of their own mental processes - answer✔true
Why can we not rely on our implicit understandings and experiences in social life to guide our
understanding of social psychology? - answer✔- People look through theories instead of at them
- Can't express in words the criteria they evaluated
- Biases
- Lack of testing
Unconscious control of judgements and thoughts
What is the overall aim of the scientific method? - answer✔Reduce bias and other limitations
What are traditional study designs used to answer questions in Social Psychology? - answer✔Correlation
and experiments
What are new methods? - answer✔Longitudinal designs, computer simulation, and big data
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