Social Psychology Chapters 1-4 UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Social Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER - the scientific study of how people think about,
influence, and relate to one another
Social Thinking - CORRECT ANSWER - how we perceive ourselves and others, what we believe,
judgments we make, and our attitudes
Social Influence - CORRECT ANSWER - culture, pressures to conform, persuasion, and groups of
people
Social Relations - CORRECT ANSWER - prejudice, aggression, attraction and intimacy, and
helping
Social Neuroscience - CORRECT ANSWER - an interdisciplinary field that explores the neural
bases of social and emotional processes and behaviors and how these processes and behaviors affect our
brain and biology
Culture - CORRECT ANSWER - the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by
a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
Social Representations - CORRECT ANSWER - a society's widely held ideas and values, including
assumptions and cultural ideologies; our social representations help us make sense of our world
Hindsight Bias - CORRECT ANSWER - the tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome,
one's ability to have foreseen how something turned out; also known as the I-knew-it-all-along
phenomenon.
, Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed
events; a good theory effectively summarizes many observations and makes clear predictions
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER - a testable proposition that describes a relationship that may
exist between events
Field Research - CORRECT ANSWER - research done in natural, real-life settings outside the
laboratory
Correlational Research - CORRECT ANSWER - the study of the naturally occurring relationships
among variables
Experimental Research - CORRECT ANSWER - studies that seek clues to cause-effect
relationships by manipulating one or more factors while controlling others
Independent Variable - CORRECT ANSWER - the factor in an experiment that is being
manipulated
Dependent Variable - CORRECT ANSWER - the factor in an experiment that is being measured
Random Sample - CORRECT ANSWER - survey procedure in which every person in the
population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion
Variables that could influence survey answers? - CORRECT ANSWER - unrepresentative samples,
order of questions, response options, wording of questions, and framing
Framing - CORRECT ANSWER - the way a question or an issue is posed; framing can influence
people's decisions and expressed opinions
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Social Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER - the scientific study of how people think about,
influence, and relate to one another
Social Thinking - CORRECT ANSWER - how we perceive ourselves and others, what we believe,
judgments we make, and our attitudes
Social Influence - CORRECT ANSWER - culture, pressures to conform, persuasion, and groups of
people
Social Relations - CORRECT ANSWER - prejudice, aggression, attraction and intimacy, and
helping
Social Neuroscience - CORRECT ANSWER - an interdisciplinary field that explores the neural
bases of social and emotional processes and behaviors and how these processes and behaviors affect our
brain and biology
Culture - CORRECT ANSWER - the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by
a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
Social Representations - CORRECT ANSWER - a society's widely held ideas and values, including
assumptions and cultural ideologies; our social representations help us make sense of our world
Hindsight Bias - CORRECT ANSWER - the tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome,
one's ability to have foreseen how something turned out; also known as the I-knew-it-all-along
phenomenon.
, Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed
events; a good theory effectively summarizes many observations and makes clear predictions
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER - a testable proposition that describes a relationship that may
exist between events
Field Research - CORRECT ANSWER - research done in natural, real-life settings outside the
laboratory
Correlational Research - CORRECT ANSWER - the study of the naturally occurring relationships
among variables
Experimental Research - CORRECT ANSWER - studies that seek clues to cause-effect
relationships by manipulating one or more factors while controlling others
Independent Variable - CORRECT ANSWER - the factor in an experiment that is being
manipulated
Dependent Variable - CORRECT ANSWER - the factor in an experiment that is being measured
Random Sample - CORRECT ANSWER - survey procedure in which every person in the
population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion
Variables that could influence survey answers? - CORRECT ANSWER - unrepresentative samples,
order of questions, response options, wording of questions, and framing
Framing - CORRECT ANSWER - the way a question or an issue is posed; framing can influence
people's decisions and expressed opinions
