PSYC 2319: Chapter 1 Final Exam Practice Test.
Social Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER The scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations.
The ultimate lesson is compassion.
Encourages us to look at another person's situation- to try to understan...
PSYC 2319: Chapter 1 Final Exam
Practice Test.
Social Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER The scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of
individuals in social situations.
The ultimate lesson is compassion.
Encourages us to look at another person's situation- to try to understand the complex field of forces
acting on the individual- in order to fully understand the person's behavior.
Philip Zimbardo - CORRECT ANSWER A social psychologist who paid 24 Stanford University
undergraduate men, chosen for their good character and mental health, to be participants in a study of
a simulated prison.
Brown v. Board of Education - CORRECT ANSWER Struck down school segregation in the United States.
Drew heavily on social psychological research, which indicated that segregated schools were inherently
unequal in their effects.
Personality Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER Emphasizes individual differences in behavior
Tries to find a consistent pattern in the way a person behaves across situations.
Looks for a person's position on a trait dimension.
Look at whether certain traits and dispositions would predict cruel behavior across a range of situations
Unlike social psychology, it DOES NOT:
, 1. emphasize the the social situation
2. Examine the general situation
Cognitive Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER The study of how people perceive, think about, and
remember aspects of the world.
Studies categorization processes or memory for words or objects
Sociology - CORRECT ANSWER The study of behavior of people in the aggregate.
Studies institutions, subgroups, bureaucracies, mass movements, and changes in the demographic
characteristics of populations.
Hannah Arendt - CORRECT ANSWER Eichmann in Jerusalem
Described the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the notorious architect of Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews in
Nazi-occupied Europe.
Suggested that we are ALL capable of acts of brutality.
Denounced for what many regarded as her attempt to exonerate a monster.
"The Banality of Evil" - CORRECT ANSWER Hannah Arendt
The idea that evil acts can be committed by seemingly ordinary people.
Kurt Lewin - CORRECT ANSWER The founder of modern social psychology.
Applied a powerful idea from physics to an understanding of psychological existence.
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