Social Psychology Chapters 1-4 Practice Test with Questions and Answers

Social Psychology the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another Social Thinking how we perceive ourselves and others, what we believe, judgments we make, and our attitudes Social Influence culture, pressures to conform, persuasion, and groups of people Social Relations prejudice, aggression, attraction and intimacy, and helping Social Neuroscience 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 the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next Social Representations 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 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 an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events; a good theory effectively summarizes many observations and makes clear predictions Hypothesis a testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events Field Research research done in natural, real-life settings outside the laboratory Correlational Research the study of the naturally occurring relationships among variables Experimental Research studies that seek clues to cause-effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors while controlling others Independent Variable the factor in an experiment that is being manipulated Dependent Variable the factor in an experiment that is being measured Random Sample survey procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion