SOCPSY - 1 INTRODUCING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

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Social psychology

Science that studies the influences of our situation with how we view and affect one another.

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  • Social thinking

  • Social influence

  • Social relations

Three pillars of social psychology

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Evolutionary psychologists

Stated that our inherited human nature predisposes us to behave in ways that helped our ancestors reproduce and survive.

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Social neuroscience

Interdisciplinary field that explores the neural bases of social and emotional processes and behaviors and how these things affect our brain and biology.

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Culture

Enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and handed down generation to generation.

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Social representations

A society’s wide held ideas and values including assumptions and ideology that help us make sense of our world.

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Defining the good life

Values influence our ideas of how best to live, like Maslow being guided by his own values.

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Professional advice

Psychological advice reflects the advice giver’s personal values.

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Forming concepts

Hidden values seep into psychology’s research-based concepts and cultural definitions of mental health.

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Labeling

Value judgements are often hidden within our social psychological language.

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Hindsight bias

“I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon,” error in judging the future’s foreseeability and in remembering the past events.

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Theory

An integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events. Ideas that summarize and explain facts.

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Hypothesis

Theories also imply testable prediction/s called _______________.

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Correlation

Asking whether two or more factors are naturally associated.

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Experimental

Manipulating some factor to see its affect on another.

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Status-longevity question

Illustrates the most irresistible thinking error made by social psychologist.

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Coefficient

The degree of relationship between two factors.

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Advanced correlational research

Can suggest cause-effect relations.

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Time-lagged techniques

Reveal the sequence of events.

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Statistical techniques

Can also give researchers the influence of third variables.

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Random sample

Obtaining a representative group, one in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion.

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  • Unrepresentative sample

  • Order of questions

  • Response options

  • Wording of questionss

Potentially biasing influences (4)

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Unrepresentative samples

The importance that the sample represents the population under study matters greatly for accuracy of results.

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Wording of questions

Survey wording is a delicate matter, subtle changes in the tone of a question can have marked effects on the results.

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Random assignment

The great equalizer; eliminates all extraneous factors and creates equivalent groups.

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Control

Manipulating variables

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Independent variables

By varying just one or two factors at a time, we can pinpoint their influence.

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Logic of experimentation

By creating and controlling a miniature of reality, we can vary one factor and then another and discover how those factors, separately or combines, affect people.

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Replication studies

Repeating a research study, often with different participants in different settings to determine if the finding could be reproduced.

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Mundane realism

Laboratory need not to be like everyday behavior which is mundane or unimportant.

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Experimental realism

It should engage the participants to psychological processes.

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Demand characteristics

Cues in an experiment that tell the participant what behavior is expected.

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Informed consent

Ethical principle requiring the research participant be told enough to enable them to choose whether to decide to continue or back out.

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Debriefing

Post experimental explanation of the study to the participants. It usually discloses deception and often queries participants of their understanding and feelings.

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