Psy 102 - Social Psychology UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
ABC's of social psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Affect (feelings)
Behavior (actions)
Cognition (thoughts)
Lewin's Magic Formula - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B=f(P, E): Behavior=function(Person,
Environment)
contrual - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and
interpret the social world
- the way one construes the situation is more important than the objective properties of the
situation
- situation/ circumstance plays a role
- ex. his shirt in a relationship vs after breakup pic
rejection sensitivity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - the extent to which one worries about
being rejected
- people vary from high to low
- high's = over-perception of rejection (but only in ambiguous situations)
- Downey and Feldman study
proximal vs distal factors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- proximal: context, motivational,
cognitive (schemas), emotional
distal factors: culture, evolution
- these factors are reasons why there is a difference between the objective situation and our
construal of it
hindsight bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the tendency to believe, after learning an
outcome, that one would have foreseen it
, two essential characteristics of a true experiment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. control over
the experimental procedures
2. participants randomly assigned to different treatment conditions
subject variables - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- variables that characterize pre-existing
differences among study participants (can't randomly assign)
two essential characteristics of an experimental study - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. control
over the experimental procedures (manipulate IV only)
2. participants randomly assigned
quasi-experimental or mixed design - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - one or more manipulated
variables
- one or more measured variables
internal validity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the degree to which changes in the dependent
variable are due to the manipulation of the independent variable (confidence that the study
did what it said it would)
- random assignment is crucial
external validity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the extent to which the results of a study can be
generalized to other situations and to other people (generalizability)
- sampling is crucial
mundane realism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- does the experiment resemble the real world?
experimental realism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- does the participant treat the experiment as
real psychologically?
types of measures (list 4) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - archival (trace/ life outcome data)
- behavioral
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
ABC's of social psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Affect (feelings)
Behavior (actions)
Cognition (thoughts)
Lewin's Magic Formula - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B=f(P, E): Behavior=function(Person,
Environment)
contrual - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and
interpret the social world
- the way one construes the situation is more important than the objective properties of the
situation
- situation/ circumstance plays a role
- ex. his shirt in a relationship vs after breakup pic
rejection sensitivity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - the extent to which one worries about
being rejected
- people vary from high to low
- high's = over-perception of rejection (but only in ambiguous situations)
- Downey and Feldman study
proximal vs distal factors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- proximal: context, motivational,
cognitive (schemas), emotional
distal factors: culture, evolution
- these factors are reasons why there is a difference between the objective situation and our
construal of it
hindsight bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the tendency to believe, after learning an
outcome, that one would have foreseen it
, two essential characteristics of a true experiment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. control over
the experimental procedures
2. participants randomly assigned to different treatment conditions
subject variables - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- variables that characterize pre-existing
differences among study participants (can't randomly assign)
two essential characteristics of an experimental study - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. control
over the experimental procedures (manipulate IV only)
2. participants randomly assigned
quasi-experimental or mixed design - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - one or more manipulated
variables
- one or more measured variables
internal validity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the degree to which changes in the dependent
variable are due to the manipulation of the independent variable (confidence that the study
did what it said it would)
- random assignment is crucial
external validity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the extent to which the results of a study can be
generalized to other situations and to other people (generalizability)
- sampling is crucial
mundane realism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- does the experiment resemble the real world?
experimental realism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- does the participant treat the experiment as
real psychologically?
types of measures (list 4) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - archival (trace/ life outcome data)
- behavioral
