PSYC 2600 UVA EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
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Social psychology - ANS the scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings,
and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people.
Social Influence - ANS the effect that words, actions, or mere presence of other people have
on our thoughts feeling, attitudes, or behaviors
Behaviorism - ANS to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing
properties of the environment
Construal - ANS the way in which people perceive, comprehend and interpret the social
world
Gestalt Psychology - ANS stresses the importance of studying the subjective way in which an
object appears in people's minds
Self-Esteem Maintenance - ANS Desire to feel good about ourselves
Social Cognition Approach - ANS Desire to be accurate about the social world
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, Hindsight Bias - ANS tendency for people to exaggerate, after knowing that something
occurred, how much they could have predicted it before it occurred
Observational Method - ANS researcher observes people and records measurements or
impressions of their behavior
Ethnography - ANS researchers attempt to understand a group or culture by observing it from
the inside, without imposing any preconceived notions they might have
Interjudge Reliability - ANS level of agreement between two or more people who
independently observer and code a set of data
Archival Analysis - ANS researcher examines the accumulated documents, or archives of a
culture
Correlational Method - ANS two or more variables are systematically measured and the
relationship between them is assessed
Correlational Coefficient - ANS a statistic that assesses how well you can predict one variable
from another
Experimental Method - ANS Researcher randomly assigns participants to different conditions
and ensures that these conditions are identical except for the independent variables
P-Value - ANS tells the researcher how likely it is that the results of their experiment occurred
by chance and not because of the variables
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AND ANSWERS 2026 VERIFIED.
Social psychology - ANS the scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings,
and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people.
Social Influence - ANS the effect that words, actions, or mere presence of other people have
on our thoughts feeling, attitudes, or behaviors
Behaviorism - ANS to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing
properties of the environment
Construal - ANS the way in which people perceive, comprehend and interpret the social
world
Gestalt Psychology - ANS stresses the importance of studying the subjective way in which an
object appears in people's minds
Self-Esteem Maintenance - ANS Desire to feel good about ourselves
Social Cognition Approach - ANS Desire to be accurate about the social world
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, Hindsight Bias - ANS tendency for people to exaggerate, after knowing that something
occurred, how much they could have predicted it before it occurred
Observational Method - ANS researcher observes people and records measurements or
impressions of their behavior
Ethnography - ANS researchers attempt to understand a group or culture by observing it from
the inside, without imposing any preconceived notions they might have
Interjudge Reliability - ANS level of agreement between two or more people who
independently observer and code a set of data
Archival Analysis - ANS researcher examines the accumulated documents, or archives of a
culture
Correlational Method - ANS two or more variables are systematically measured and the
relationship between them is assessed
Correlational Coefficient - ANS a statistic that assesses how well you can predict one variable
from another
Experimental Method - ANS Researcher randomly assigns participants to different conditions
and ensures that these conditions are identical except for the independent variables
P-Value - ANS tells the researcher how likely it is that the results of their experiment occurred
by chance and not because of the variables
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