Applied Social Psychology UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Purpose of applied social psych - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- draws on theories and
methodologies from social psychology to understand and alleviate social and practical
problems
social psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The scientific study of how people think
about, feel about, influence and relate to one another.
Social psychologists are interested in the interplay between personality and situational
influences.
3 key components of scientific inquiry? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Theory guides
predictions
2. Establish methods that allow your ideas to be refuted or supported (key components
include gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence)
3. Conduct research in such a way that it can replicated
3 things needed to infer causality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Variables must be related-
correlation
IV must come before DV-time order
Must manipulate IV and control extraneous variables--non-spurious
How does ingroup-outgroup bias develop--3 ways - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Social
Learning (classical conditioning, modeling)
Simply see yourself as part of a particular group (class divided)
Competition (Robber's Cave Experiment)
"class divided" example - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- divided a class in blue eyes brown eyes
and children saw ingroup as better that out group because teacher said so
,Robber's Cave experiment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Group formation-divided campers
up arbitrarily
2. introduced conflict-set up competition between groups
3. reduce conflict with-superordinate goal
3 ways to use a multimethod approach - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Use various types of
assessments including, for example, self-report, behavioral, physiological
2. Use multiple levels of analysis
3. Use interdisciplinary approaches
Triangulation/methodological pluralism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- use of multiple
measures in a single study
Applied social psychology focuses on 2 steps-- - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Developing a
scientific understanding of social and practical problems
2. Drawing on that understanding to design interventions to ameliorate (to make something
bad,better) and/or alleviate societal and/or personal issues
3 key ways intergroup conflict develops - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. social learning
2. conflict
3. simply establishing groups
5 Core values of research methods--5 things you need to be a scientist - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- 1. accuracy
2. objectivity
3. skepticism
4. open-mindedness
5. ethics
5 goals/steps of understanding a phenomenon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. description-
describing the phenomenon
2. prediction-correlation
, 3. determining causality-causality
4. explanation-why the phenomenon occurs
5. control-being able to manipulate conditions that will cause changes in behavior
intergroup attitude - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a persons attitude toward a group to which
they do not belong
in-group/out-group bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- in-group members tend to evaluate and
relate to the in-group more favorably than the out-group
experimental control - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- being able to manipulate conditions that
will cause changes in a phenomenon
milgrim experiment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- shocl participants-65% shocked the person
to death
individual differences - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- characteristics or qualities of people--
important that social psychologists do recognize people have these--this may explain why
35% didn't shock people to death
interactive relationship between social and personal influences on behavior - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- situations may have different effect on different people
external attributions vs internal attributions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- explain behavior by
focusing on factor's in the persons social environment vs explain behavior by focuing on
factors within the person
fundamental attribution error - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- tendency for us to underestimate
the influence of situational factors and focus on individual factors in explaining other people's
behavior
levels of analysis of social psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- interpersonal, group,
organizational, community, societal/cultural
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Purpose of applied social psych - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- draws on theories and
methodologies from social psychology to understand and alleviate social and practical
problems
social psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The scientific study of how people think
about, feel about, influence and relate to one another.
Social psychologists are interested in the interplay between personality and situational
influences.
3 key components of scientific inquiry? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Theory guides
predictions
2. Establish methods that allow your ideas to be refuted or supported (key components
include gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence)
3. Conduct research in such a way that it can replicated
3 things needed to infer causality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Variables must be related-
correlation
IV must come before DV-time order
Must manipulate IV and control extraneous variables--non-spurious
How does ingroup-outgroup bias develop--3 ways - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Social
Learning (classical conditioning, modeling)
Simply see yourself as part of a particular group (class divided)
Competition (Robber's Cave Experiment)
"class divided" example - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- divided a class in blue eyes brown eyes
and children saw ingroup as better that out group because teacher said so
,Robber's Cave experiment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Group formation-divided campers
up arbitrarily
2. introduced conflict-set up competition between groups
3. reduce conflict with-superordinate goal
3 ways to use a multimethod approach - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Use various types of
assessments including, for example, self-report, behavioral, physiological
2. Use multiple levels of analysis
3. Use interdisciplinary approaches
Triangulation/methodological pluralism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- use of multiple
measures in a single study
Applied social psychology focuses on 2 steps-- - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Developing a
scientific understanding of social and practical problems
2. Drawing on that understanding to design interventions to ameliorate (to make something
bad,better) and/or alleviate societal and/or personal issues
3 key ways intergroup conflict develops - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. social learning
2. conflict
3. simply establishing groups
5 Core values of research methods--5 things you need to be a scientist - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- 1. accuracy
2. objectivity
3. skepticism
4. open-mindedness
5. ethics
5 goals/steps of understanding a phenomenon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. description-
describing the phenomenon
2. prediction-correlation
, 3. determining causality-causality
4. explanation-why the phenomenon occurs
5. control-being able to manipulate conditions that will cause changes in behavior
intergroup attitude - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a persons attitude toward a group to which
they do not belong
in-group/out-group bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- in-group members tend to evaluate and
relate to the in-group more favorably than the out-group
experimental control - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- being able to manipulate conditions that
will cause changes in a phenomenon
milgrim experiment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- shocl participants-65% shocked the person
to death
individual differences - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- characteristics or qualities of people--
important that social psychologists do recognize people have these--this may explain why
35% didn't shock people to death
interactive relationship between social and personal influences on behavior - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- situations may have different effect on different people
external attributions vs internal attributions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- explain behavior by
focusing on factor's in the persons social environment vs explain behavior by focuing on
factors within the person
fundamental attribution error - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- tendency for us to underestimate
the influence of situational factors and focus on individual factors in explaining other people's
behavior
levels of analysis of social psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- interpersonal, group,
organizational, community, societal/cultural
