Myers Chapter 1: Introduction to Social Pscyhology Questions and AnswersSocial Psychology - -The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another -Social neuroscience - -An integration of biological and social perspectives

Social Psychology - -The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another -Social neuroscience - -An integration of biological and social perspectives that explores the neural and psychological bases of social and emotional behaviors -Culture - -The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next -Social Representation - -Socially shared beliefs - widely held ideas and values, including our 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 -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 - independent variables - while controlling others - holding them constant -Random sample - -Survey procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion