PSY 8: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Chapter
1:
Psychology

Introducing

Social

Social Psychology - scientific study of how

people think about, influence, and relate to
one another
Social neuroscience
o integration of biological and social
perspectives that explores the neural
and psychological bases of social and
emotional behaviors
Culture
o enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes,
and traditions shared by a large group
of poles and transmitted from one
generation to the next
Social representations
o Socially shared beliefs widely held
ideas and values including our
assumptions and cultural ideologies.
Our social representation helps us
make sense of our world.
hindsight bias
o Tendency to exaggerate after learning
an outcome, one's ability to have
foreseen how something turned out.
Theory
o
integrated set of principle that explain
and predict observed events
Field research
o Research done in natural real life
setting outside the laboratory
Correlational research
o study
of
naturally
occurring
relationships among variables
Experimental research
o studies that seek clues to cause-effect
relationships by manipulating one or
more factors while controlling others
Random sample
o Survey procedure in which every
person in the population being studied
has an equal chance of inclusion.

Framing
o the way a question or an issue is
posed;
can
influence
people's
decisions and expressed opinions
Independent variable
o experimental
factor
that
is
manipulated
Dependent variable
o
variable being measured so called
because
it
may
depend
on
manipulation of independent variable
Random assignment
o
process of assigning participants to
the conditions of an experiment such
that all persons have the same chance
of being in a giving condition
Mundane realism
o degree to which an experiment is
superficially
similar
to
everyday
situations
Experimental realism
o degree in which an experiment
absorbs and involves its participants
Deception
o
research effect by which participants
are misinformed or misled about the
study's method and purposes
Informed consent
o ethical
principle
requiring
that
research participants be told enough to
enable them to choose whether they
wish to participate
Demand characteristics
o cues in an experiment that tell the
participant what behavior is expected
debriefing social psychology, after the
experiment, explanation of a study to
its participants.
Debriefing
o
usually discloses any deception and
often queries participants regarding
their understanding and feelings