PSYCH 345 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
cats names - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅pepe, momo
Social psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Scientific study of the ways people's thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors are influenced by the actual imagined or implied presence of others
Construal - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the
world
self esteem - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅want to feel good about ourselves
Social cognition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅how people select, interpret, remember, and use information
to make judgements and decisions
Naive realism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the tendency to believe that we see the world objectively
Corollary - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅people who disagree with us must be uninformed, irrational, or
biased
False consensus effect - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the tendency to overestimate the number of people
who share the same belief
Sociology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅focuses on broad spectrum patterns
Social psychology (vs sociology) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅focus on individuals in situations
Personality psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅emphasized how differences between people explain
behavior
, Social psychology (vs personality) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅emphasizes how the situation explains
behavior (similarities)
Hindsight bias - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅tendency to exaggerate foresight if an outcome after knowing it
happened (I knew it all along)
Observational - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅description, nature of the phenomenon, see how people behave,
but can't use for behaviors that are rare or not public, real world, little control, cannot determine
causality
Ethnography - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Researchers attempt to understand a group or culture by
understanding it from the inside
Correlational - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅prediction, survey form, measure two or more variables and
examine the degree to which they covary, lots of data quickly, samples may not be representative,
interviewer effects, social desirability
Surveys - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅research in which a representative sample of people are asked
questions about their attitudes or behavior
Correlation coefficient - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅ranged from -1 to 1, further from 0 the stronger the
correlation
Experimental - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅cause and effect, one variable manipulated to see what effect it
has on another, determines causality, controls extraneous variables, helps rule out alternate
explanations, demand characteristics, artificial, placebo affects
Independent variable - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅manipulated variable,
Dependent variable - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅measured variable
Internal validity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅holding all variables constant except the independent variable
cats names - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅pepe, momo
Social psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Scientific study of the ways people's thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors are influenced by the actual imagined or implied presence of others
Construal - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the
world
self esteem - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅want to feel good about ourselves
Social cognition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅how people select, interpret, remember, and use information
to make judgements and decisions
Naive realism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the tendency to believe that we see the world objectively
Corollary - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅people who disagree with us must be uninformed, irrational, or
biased
False consensus effect - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the tendency to overestimate the number of people
who share the same belief
Sociology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅focuses on broad spectrum patterns
Social psychology (vs sociology) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅focus on individuals in situations
Personality psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅emphasized how differences between people explain
behavior
, Social psychology (vs personality) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅emphasizes how the situation explains
behavior (similarities)
Hindsight bias - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅tendency to exaggerate foresight if an outcome after knowing it
happened (I knew it all along)
Observational - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅description, nature of the phenomenon, see how people behave,
but can't use for behaviors that are rare or not public, real world, little control, cannot determine
causality
Ethnography - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Researchers attempt to understand a group or culture by
understanding it from the inside
Correlational - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅prediction, survey form, measure two or more variables and
examine the degree to which they covary, lots of data quickly, samples may not be representative,
interviewer effects, social desirability
Surveys - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅research in which a representative sample of people are asked
questions about their attitudes or behavior
Correlation coefficient - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅ranged from -1 to 1, further from 0 the stronger the
correlation
Experimental - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅cause and effect, one variable manipulated to see what effect it
has on another, determines causality, controls extraneous variables, helps rule out alternate
explanations, demand characteristics, artificial, placebo affects
Independent variable - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅manipulated variable,
Dependent variable - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅measured variable
Internal validity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅holding all variables constant except the independent variable
