Psych 360 Social Psychology
Exam 1 Study Guide
Actor-observer difference
Attribution theory
Availability heuristic (Be sure you can distinguish it from representativeness heuristic)
Brewer and Treyens “grad student’s office” study
Confirmation bias
Conscious versus nonconscious processing (e.g., non-conscious attitudes)
Correlational research (definition, major limitations, cannot establish causation)
Counterfactual thinking (what it is, Medvec et al. study, Olympic medal winners)
Covariation principle
Dweck et al. research on gender and attributional style
Emotional amplification
Experimental research (definition, major components)
Explanatory style
Fundamental attribution error (this is on exam multiple times)
Hindsight bias
Impression formation
Informed consent and debriefing
John Bargh’s research on priming effects on behavior
Kurt Lewin’s field theory
Motivated confirmation bias
Naturalistic fallacy
Negative framing
Perceptual salience
Perseverance effect
Pluralistic ignorance
Primacy effect (Jones et al., 1968)
Priming
Pygmalion effect (factors influencing)
Representativeness heuristic (risk of ignoring base-rate information; be sure you can distinguish
representativeness heuristic from availability heuristic)
Schemas (what they are, what they do, how they are activated; this is on exam multiple times)
Self-fulfilling prophesy
Self-serving attributional bias
Snyder and Swann’s interview study (method, findings, implications)
Todorov et al. research on perceiving personality from brief glances at faces
Top down/bottom-up processing