Study Guide
Social Psychology
Chapter 1: The Revealing Science of Social Psychology
Existential perspective
Dispositions
Attribution Theory
Causal attributions
Cultural knowledge
Cognitive misers
Confirmation bias
Confederate
Correlation
Reverse causality problem
Third variable problem
Field research
Quasi-experimental design
Internal validity
External validity
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According to psychoanalytic theory, what guides human behavior?
According to behaviorist theory, what guides human behavior?
What are the four core assumptions of social psychology?
According to Kurt Lewin, what two elements combine to produce behavior?
What is a socially constructed view of reality?
What is a social cognition and does it influence behavior?
What is the intuitive encyclopedia?
What are two reasons why people’s explanations for why they behaved a certain
way sometimes misleading or inaccurate?
9. What mistakes do we often make in trying to explain others’ behaviors?
10. What produces bias when we observe others’ behavior?
11. What can a correlational result tell us? More importantly, what can it not tell us?
12. What is done in an experiment that makes causal inferences possible? (p. 21)
13. What are four limitations in science?
14. Why do social psychologists so often use deception in their experiments?
15. Name two ethical safeguards for participants in experiments.