Social Psych Notes Chapter 1 (Intro to Social Psychology)
Behavioral economics: how psychology, particularly social and cognitive psychology, relates to economic decision making.
Behavioral genetics: investigate the role genes play on our behavior.
Cross-cultural research: evaluates how universal or specific theories and findings are to particular cultures
Culture: The values, beliefs, language, rituals, traditions, and other behaviors that are passed from one generation to another within any social group.
Evolutionary psychology: use principles of evolution to understand and explain human behavior and traits.
Interactionist perspective: focuses on the everyday interactions between individuals as the basis for the development of society.
Multicultural research: examines racial and ethnic groups within cultures.
Open science: a movement to make research materials, methods, hypotheses, and data more transparent, accessible, and easily shared with researchers from other labs.
Social cognition: focuses on the close links between our minds and the positioning, experiences, and actions of our bodies.
Social neuroscience: Study of the relationship between neural and social processes.
Social Psychology: looks at how social factors affect most individuals.
“Cold” versus “hot” Perspectives in Social Psychology: Cold perspective- Cognition is the driving force behind thoughts and actions. Hot perspective- Emotion and motivation drive our thoughts and actions.
Who are the founders of social psychology? : Floyd Allport, Triplett’s, and Ringelmann”s
What subfield of psychology most closely relates to social psychology?: Personality
Which historical event sparked great interest in and gave shape to the field of social psychology? : WWII and the Holocaust.
Who is considered to be one of the founders of applied social psychology?: Floyed Allport
What two main studies highlighted the importance in ethical research?: The Stanford Prison Experiment, and the Milgram Experiment.
What did Stanley Milgram do?: did an experiment to test the human tendency to obey an authority figure.
What is the interactionist perspective? that people's behavior in society are a response to their interactions with others.