Social Psychology ✔✔ the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another
Social Thinking ✔✔ how we
... [Show More] perceive ourselves and others, what we believe, judgments we make, and our attitudes
Social Influence ✔✔ culture, pressures to conform, persuasion, and groups of people
Social Relations ✔✔ prejudice, aggression, attraction and intimacy, and helping
Social Neuroscience ✔✔ an interdisciplinary field that explores the neural bases of social and emotional processes and behaviors and how these processes and behaviors affect our brain and biology
Culture ✔✔ the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
Social Representations ✔✔ a society's widely held ideas and values, including assumptions and cultural ideologies; our social representations help us make sense of our world
Hindsight Bias ✔✔ the tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one's ability to have foreseen how something turned out; also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.
Theory ✔✔ an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events; a good theory effectively summarizes many observations and makes clear predictions
Hypothesis ✔✔ a testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events
Field Research ✔✔ research done in natural, real-life settings outside the laboratory
Correlational Research ✔✔ the study of the naturally occurring relationships among variables
Experimental Research ✔✔ studies that seek clues to cause-effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors while controlling others
Independent Variable ✔✔ the factor in an experiment that is being manipulated
Dependent Variable ✔✔ the factor in an experiment that is being measured
Random Sample ✔✔ survey procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion
Variables that could influence survey answers? ✔✔ unrepresentative samples, order of questions, response options, wording of questions, and framing [Show Less]