Social Psych Exam 1

What is the scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by real or imagined presence of others?

• Social Psychology

• Personality Psychology

• Gestalt Psychology

• Behaviourism

• Evolutionary Psychology

What type of psychology is nemesis of social psychology? Why?

• Behaviourism because it looks at the reinforcing properties of the environment

• Personality psych because they look at individual CAB+ traits

• Motivational psych because it looks at individual's needs and goals

What type of psychology is the ideological sibling of social psychology? Why?

• Behaviourism because it looks at the reinforcing properties of the environment

• Personality psych because they look at individual CAB+ traits

• Motivational psych because it looks at individual's needs and goals

What is social cognition?

• To see themselves as good, competent, and decent. Human beings are motivated to maintain a positive picture of themselves by justifying their behaviours

• How people think about themselves and the social world. How people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgements and decisions.

What is hindsight bias?

• It is the tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behaviour is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors

• It is the tendency for people to exaggerate how much they could have predicted something before it happened

What is empiricism?

• The study of fallen empires

• It is knowledge from experience derived from systematic observations

Inductive is to _____ hypothesis and deductive is to ______ hypothesis.

• test//develop

• develop//test

________ method is when two variables are systematically measured and the relationship between them is assessed.

• Observational

• Experimental

• Correlational

Robert Zajonc said that if the human mind is a computer...

• then it is semi-correct as the neurons resemble wires but the intention is different

• then that is correct because the human mind is infallible like a computer

• then it is a computer covered in BBQ sauce because it is so finnicky and never works how it is supposed to

What is the fundamental attribution error?

• It is the tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behaviour is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors

• It is the tendency for people to exaggerate how much they could have predicted something before it happened