Test One

Question 1

Define Social Psychology

Answer 1

Scientific Study of the influence of the real, imagined, or implied presence of others on our feelings, beliefs, and behavior
And how we influence others (reciprocity)

Question 2

Aronson’s First Law

Answer 2

“People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy”
- this statement challenges dispositional attribution that people are their actions - Dispositionalism

Question 3

Hindsight Bias

Answer 3

Tendency to overestimate our ability to predict events once we know the outcome of a given event

Question 4

Levels of Hindsight Bias

Answer 4

• Memory Distortion
• Inevitability
• Foreseeability

Question 5

Three Key Variables that Affect Levels of Hindsight Bias

Answer 5

• cognitive - sensemaking/confirmation bias
• metacognitive - ability heuristic
• motivational - self-esteem

Question 6

Barnum Effect

Question 7

150 Person Limit

Answer 7

Human brain size has limit of about 150 people we can have stable, meaningful relationships with. This means communities function the best when population does not exceed this number

Question 8

Confirmation Bias

Answer 8

Tendency to seek confirmation of initial impression or beliefs. We notice, remember, and accept information that confirms our pre-existing beliefs and ignore/forget/reject information that goes against/challenges our beliefs

Question 9

Cognitive Miser

Answer 9

People look to conserve cognitive energy by attempting to adopt strategies that simplify complex problems (overusing and undersuing info)

Question 10

Spot Light Effect

Question 11

Autonomic Processing

Question 12

Controlled Processing

Question 13

Social Pain

Question 14

Social Identity Theory

Question 15

Core Social Motives

Question 16

Fundamental Attribution Error

Question 17

Self Fulfilling Prophecies

Question 18

Contrast Effect

Question 19

Primacy Effect

Question 20

Heuristics

Question 21

Cognitive Dissonance

Question 22

Foot-in-door tactic

Question 23

Conformity

Question 24

Levels of Conformity

Question 25

Chameleon Effect

Question 26

Asch's Conformity Experiment

Question 27

Bystander Effect

Question 28

Milgram's Obedience Study

Question 29

Opinion

Question 30

Attitude

Question 31

Media/Emotional Contagin

Question 32

Peripheral Routes

Question 33

Central Routes

Question 34

Credibility

Question 35

Logic Appeals

Question 36

Emotion Appeals

Question 37

Roles of Self-Esteem

Question 38

One-Sided Argument

Question 39

Two Sided Argument

Question 40

Persuadability

Question 41

Social Cognition

Answer 41

study of how people come to believe what they do; and how they explain, predict, remember, make decisions, and evaluate others