SOP 3004 Marion Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Social Psychology - answer✔The scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts,
feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people.
Social Influence - answer✔The effect that the words, actions, or mere presence of other people
have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behavior.
Evolutionary Psychology - answer✔The attempt to explain social behavior in terms of genetic
factors that have evolved over time according to the principles of natural selection.
Construal - answer✔The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social
world.
Fundamental Attribution Error - answer✔The tendency to overestimate the extent to which
people's behavior is due
to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors
Behaviorism - answer✔A school of psychology maintaining that to understand human
behavior, one need only
consider the reinforcing properties of the environment.
Gestalt Psychology - answer✔A school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the
subjective way in which
an object appears in people's minds rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object.
Naïve Realism - answer✔The conviction that we perceive things "as they really are,"
underestimating how much we are interpreting or "spinning" what we see (Lee Ross).
Self-Esteem - answer✔People's evaluations of their own self-worth—that is, the extent to
which they view themselves as good, competent, and decent
Social Cognition - answer✔How people think about themselves and the social world; more
specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make
judgments and decisions.
many of the same questions philosophers do. - answer✔scientifically
The problem with common sense, or _____________, is that it's often contradictory. -
answer✔folk wisdom
Doing experiments in social psychology presents many challenges, primarily because
___________ - answer✔we are attempting to predict the behavior of highly sophisticated
organisms in complex situations.
Explaining people's behavior in terms of their traits is the work of _________,
who generally focus on individual differences - answer✔personality psychologists
The major difference between social psychology and sociology is that in sociology, the level of
analysis is _______ - answer✔the group, institution, or society at large
The goal of social psychology is to identify______ - answer✔psychological properties that
make almost everyone susceptible to social influence, regardless of social class or culture
___________overlooked the importance of how people interpret their environments. -
answer✔Early behaviorists
_______, generally considered the founder of modern experimental social psychology. -
answer✔Kurt Lewin
Social psychologists emphasize the importance of two central motives in steering people's
construals: _____________. - answer✔the need to feel good about ourselves and the need to be
accurate.
Hindsight Bias - answer✔The tendency for people to exaggerate, after knowing that something
occurred, how much they could have predicted it—before it occurred.
Observational Method - answer✔The technique whereby a researcher observes people and
systematically records measurements or impressions of their behavior.
Ethnography - answer✔The method by which researchers attempt to understand a group or
culture by observing it from the inside, without imposing any preconceived notions they might
have.
Archival Analysis - answer✔A form of the observational method in which the researcher
examines the accumulated documents, or archives, of a culture (e.g., diaries, novels, magazines,
and newspapers)
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