Chapter One: What Is Social Psychology

Walton

________: 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.

Max Ringlemann

________: conducted social research in the 1880s.

Multi cultural research

________: examine racial and ethnic groups within cultures.

William McDougall

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

Kurt Lewin

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

social brain

The ________- made possible through advances in tech.

Social cognition

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

Hot vs

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

Interactionist perspective

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

social psych

Norman Triplett: published the first research article in ________.

Behavior economics

________ focuses on how psychology relates to economic decision making.

social psychology

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

Norman Triplett

published the first research article in social psych

Max Ringlemann

conducted social research in the 1880s

William McDougall, Edward Ross, and Floyd Allport

wrote the first three textbooks in social psychology

1936 Gordon Allport

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Kurt Lewin

fled to the US in the early 1930s

interactionist perspective

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

Confidence and Crisis 1960s

Mid 1970s

dominant research method

lab experiments

An Era of Pluralism

Mid 1970s-2000s

social cognition

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

cross-cultural research

examine similarities and differences across a variety of cultures

multi-cultural research

examine racial and ethnic groups within cultures

social neuroscience

the study of the relationship between neural and social processes

embodied cognition

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

the social brain

made possible through advances in tech

PET

positron emission tomography

ERP

event-related potential

TMS

transcranial magnetic stimulation

fMRI

functional magnetic resonance imagining

social psychology

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

interactionist perspective

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

social cognition

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

behavioral genetics

examines the effects of genes on behavior

evolutionary psychology

uses the principles of evolution to understand human behavior

cross-cultural research

research designed to compare and contrast people of different cultures

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

multicultural research

research designed to examine racial and ethnic groups within cultures

embodied cognition

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

social neuroscience

the study of the relationship between neural and social processes

Hot perspective of Social Psychology

Perspective that focused on emotion and motivation

Cold perspective of Social Psychology

Perspective that focused on cognition

Behavior Economics

Focuses on how psychology relates to economic decision making

PET - Positron Emission Tomography

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

ERP - Event-related Potential

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

TMS - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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

fMRI - Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagining

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