Social psychology Quiz 1

founded the first laboratory dedicated exclusively to psychological research in Leipzig

• Wilhelm Wundt

•  William G. Sumner

• Henri Tajfel

• Kurt Lewin

Social categorization is the process through which we group individuals based upon social information.

• social categorization

• Social Identity

• Social Comparison

• Positive Distinctiveness

is the idea that individuals determine their own social and personal worth based on how they stack up against others.

• social categorization

• Social Identity

• Social Comparison

• Positive Distinctiveness

A key assumption in social identity theory is that individuals are intrinsically motivated to achieve ___________

• social categorization

• Social Identity

• Social Comparison

• Positive Distinctiveness

"strive for a positive self-concept.

• social categorization

• Social Identity

• Social Comparison

• Positive Distinctiveness

_____________is broadly defined as the threat that people experience in situations where they feel devalued on the basis of a social identity

• social categorization

• Social Identity

• Social Comparison

• Positive Distinctiveness

• Social identity threat

social psychologists ___________refined the experimental approach to studying behavior, creating social psychology as a scientific discipline.

• Wilhelm Wundt

•  William G. Sumner

• Henri Tajfel

• Kurt Lewin and Leon Festinger

The theory of Social Comparison was developed in 1954 by psychologist ___________

• Wilhelm Wundt

•  William G. Sumner

• Leon Festinger

• Kurt Lewin and Leon Festinger

"The self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem, is the positive or negative evaluations of the self, as in how we feel about it (see self)."

• Carl Rogers

• Wiliam Sumner

• Smith and Mackie

• Tajfel & Turner

basic underlying concepts associated with social identity theory had emerged by the early twentieth century by ?

• Carl Rogers

• Wiliam Sumner

• Smith and Mackie

• Tajfel & Turner