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"Social Psychology" David Meyers, Chapter 1
- Course
- PSYC 3001
- Institution
- Johnson & Wales University
This chapter provides a brief introduction of Social Psychology from the textbook, "Social Psychology" by David Meyers.
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Chapter 1Introducing Social Psychology
Book: Social Psychology by David Meyers
ISPNs: 1260718891, 9781260718898, 9781260888522, 9781260888539,
9781260888539, 1260888525, 9781265992996
, Terms to know
● Social Psychology - scientific study of how people think about,
influence, and relate to one another
● Hindsight bias - the tendency to exaggerate one’s ability to have
foreseen outcomes, after the fact
● Theory - an integrated set of principles that explain and predict
observed events
● Hypothesis - a testable proposition that describes a relationship
that may exist between events
● Random sampling - a survey procedure in which every person in the
population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion
● Sample size - the number of participants in a study
● Framing - the way a question or issue is posed; can influence one’s
decision(s) and expressed opinion(s)
● Correlational research - a study of naturally occurring relationships
among variables
● Experimental research - studies that seek clues to cause-effect
relationships by manipulating one or more independent variables
while controlling others
● Random assignment - assigning participants to the conditions of an
experiment randomly
● Replication - repeating research studies, often with different
participants and different settings to determine if the findings could
be reproduced
● Meta-analysis - “study of statistics” that statistically summarizes
many studies on the same topic(s)
● Mundane realism - the degree to which an experiment is
superficially similar to everyday situations
● Experimental realism - the degree to which an experiment absorbs
and involves its participants
● Deception - in research, a strategy by which participants are
misinformed or misled about the study’s methods and purposes
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