Chapter One: What Is Social Psychology

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________: conducted an experiment in which they told female engineering students that it was typical to go through periods of social stress- this intervention eliminated the large gender difference between gpas.

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Max Ringlemann

________: conducted social research in the 1880s.

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Multi cultural research

________: examine racial and ethnic groups within cultures.

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William McDougall

________, Edward Ross, and Floyd Allport: wrote the first three textbooks in social psychology.

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Kurt Lewin

________: fled to the US in the early 1930s.

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social brain

The ________- made possible through advances in tech.

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Social cognition

________: the study of how we perceive, remember, and interpret info about ourselves and others.

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Hot vs

________ cold= the conflict between wanting to be right and wanting to feel good about oneself.

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Interactionist perspective

________: behavior is a function of the interaction between the person and the environment.

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social psych

Norman Triplett: published the first research article in ________.

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Behavior economics

________ focuses on how psychology relates to economic decision making.

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social psychology

the scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context

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Norman Triplett

published the first research article in social psych

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Max Ringlemann

conducted social research in the 1880s

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William McDougall, Edward Ross, and Floyd Allport

wrote the first three textbooks in social psychology

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1936 Gordon Allport

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

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Kurt Lewin

fled to the US in the early 1930s

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interactionist perspective

behavior is a function of the interaction between the person and the environment

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Confidence and Crisis 1960s

Mid 1970s

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dominant research method

lab experiments

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An Era of Pluralism

Mid 1970s-2000s

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social cognition

the study of how we perceive, remember, and interpret info about ourselves and others

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cross-cultural research

examine similarities and differences across a variety of cultures

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multi-cultural research

examine racial and ethnic groups within cultures

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social neuroscience

the study of the relationship between neural and social processes

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embodied cognition

focuses on the close links between our minds and the positioning, experiences, and actions of our bodies

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the social brain

made possible through advances in tech

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PET

positron emission tomography

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ERP

event-related potential

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TMS

transcranial magnetic stimulation

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fMRI

functional magnetic resonance imagining

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social psychology

the scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context

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interactionist perspective

an emphasis on how both an individual's personality and environmental characteristics influence behavior

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social cognition

the study of how people perceive, remember, and interpret information about themselves and others

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behavioral genetics

examines the effects of genes on behavior

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evolutionary psychology

uses the principles of evolution to understand human behavior

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cross-cultural research

research designed to compare and contrast people of different cultures

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culture

a system of enduring meaning, beliefs, values, assumptions, institutions, and practices shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next

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multicultural research

research designed to examine racial and ethnic groups within cultures

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embodied cognition

an interdisciplinary subfield that examines the close links between our minds and the positioning, experiences, and actions of our bodies

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social neuroscience

the study of the relationship between neural and social processes

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Hot perspective of Social Psychology

Perspective that focused on emotion and motivation

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Cold perspective of Social Psychology

Perspective that focused on cognition

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Behavior Economics

Focuses on how psychology relates to economic decision making

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PET - Positron Emission Tomography

Imaging test that can help reveal the metabolic or biochemical function of your tissues and organs

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ERP - Event-related Potential

Small voltages generated in the brain structures in response to specific events or stimuli

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TMS - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Noninvasive procedure that uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain to improve symptoms of depression

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fMRI - Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagining

Measures the small changes in blood flow that occur with brain activity

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