Stats: Social Psychology

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The sense of having a distinct identity; of being apart from other people and things:	Self	65%
Locus of Control: You are the master of your fate	Internal	48%
Locus of Control: Your life is controlled by chance or outside forces	External	44%
Grandiose view of personal superiority, Inflated sense of entitlement, Low empathy toward others, Linked with high but unstable self-esteem:	Personality/ Narcissistic Personality	40%
Characteristic emotional thought and behavior patterns; consistent over time:	Personality	38%
Our group, the one with which we identify and feel we belong:	Ingroup	23%
A group with which we do not identify; the members of which we tend to see as being all the same:	Outgroup	20%
People’s evaluations of their own worth: that is, the extent to which they view themselves as good, competent, and decent:	Self-Esteem	20%
When explaining the behavior of others, we attribute their behavior to internal factors and we ignore external factors. We overestimate the influence of personality. We underestimate the power of the situation:	Fundamental Attribution Error	16%
Feeling of competency on a task:	Self-Efficacy	16%
The tendency to seek confirmation of initial impressions or beliefs:	Confirmation Bias	15%
Directions: Compare with others who are worse	Downward	15%
Directions: Compare with others who are better	Upward	15%
Cognitive structure by which we organize knowledge, belief, past experience:	Schemas	12%
A tendency for individuals to make dispositional attributions for their successes and situational attributions for their failures:	Self-Serving Bias	11%
Beliefs that lead to their own fulfillment. The processes by which expectations or stereotypes lead people to treat others in a way that makes them confirm their expectations. Occurs when we act on our initial impressions of others in a way that makes their behavior conform to those impressions:	Self- Fulfilling Prophecy	9%
Knowledge of a group membership. Value and emotional significance of that group membership:	Social Identity	9%
Evaluative reaction toward something or someone. Favorable or unfavorable feeling, thought, or action (evaluative reaction). A special type of belief that is emotional and evaluative components; in a sense, an attitude is a stored evaluation- good or bad- of an object:	Attitude	8%
Our tendency (usually erroneous) to overestimate our powers of prediction once we know the outcome of a given event:	Hindsight Bias	8%
Refers to judgments based on how easy it is for us to bring specific examples to mind:	Availability Heuristic	7%
Directions: Compare with others who are about the same	Lateral	5%
Lessened response to exposure	Desensitization	4%
a general bias in which a favorable or unfavorable general impression of a person affects our inferences and future expectations about that person:	Halo Effect	4%
Not attended to, activated without conscious awareness:	Implicit	4%
Aggression is reduced by 'releasing' aggressive energy. Doesn't work.	Catharsis	3%
The actor’s behavior. Does he/she always behave in this manner, in other situations, and at other times?	Consistency	3%
Attended to, acknowledged, stated:	Explicit	3%
Moral, Competent, Able to predict our own behavior:	Self-Concept	3%
Compare with others to learn about myself, We prefer to compare against similar others:	Self-Evaluation	3%
As observers, we commit the Fundamental Attribution Error. As actors, we explain our own behavior using situational attributions:	Actor observer effect	2%
compared to other people. Do others behave in the same way in the same situation?	Consensus	2%
Compared to other situations. Is he or she the only one to behave in this manner?	Distinctiveness	2%
Start out doing it for love (intrinsic motivation), Get paid for it, Attribute to reward (extrinsic motivation):	Over Justification	2%
Order of information shapes judgment of others:	Primacy effect	2%
Stereotypes, beliefs, mood. A procedure or frequently activated are more likely to come to mind and thus will be used in interpreting social events. Has a major impact on the attitudes and behavior of many people- even of seasoned professionals in life-and-death situations in the real world. For brief periods, at least, we can “become” whomever or whatever pops into our mind:	Priming	2%
Behavior that is directed toward harming other living beings motivated to avoid harm. Any form of behavior directed toward the goal of harming or injuring another living being who is motivated to avoid such treatment:	Agression	1%
Pain, Provocation, Heat	Aversive Experiences	1%
Amygdala, Testosterone (affects physical aggression, Relational aggression), Alcohol, Pain and discomfort:	Biological Factors	1%
We feel tension when two simultaneously accessible cognitions are psychologically inconsistent. We are motivated to reduce this tension. Motivation is especially strong when self-concept is threatened:	Cognitive Dissonance Theory	1%
The way a problem is framed can greatly affect decisions. In decision making, whether a proposition is presented (or framed) in such that it appears to represent the potential for a loss or a gain:	Framing Effects	1%
Frustration (blocking a goal-directed behavior) triggers a readiness to aggress. May displace- Redirect aggression toward a safer or more socially acceptable target. Explains hostile aggression:	Frustration-Aggression Theory	1%
greater persistence, less anxiety, less depression:	High self-Efficacy	1%
Aggression is the goal. Intentional harm done for the purpose of inflicting harm (ex. A jealous man kills his wife and her lover):	Hostile	1%
A means to an end. Intentional harm for purpose other than the desire to inflict harm. (ex. Prison warden executes a criminal, A hunter kills an animal for a trophy):	Instrumental	1%
Arises from social comparison. Perception that one is less well-off than others:	Relative Deprivation	1%
We focus on the similarity of one object to another to infer that the first object acts like the second one:	Representative Heuristic	1%
Compare with others to feel better about myself.	Self- Enhancement	1%
Weapons, Violent media	Aggressive Cues	0%
Explaining others’ behavior. When an ordinary person attempts to explain someone else’s behavior:	Attributes	0%
Take credit for successes but blame someone or something for failures:	Attributional Self- Serving Bia	0%
When inhibitory causes are present, we become more certain of our facilitative cause:	Augmenting Principle	0%
Expectations lead to behavior that causes others to confirm expectations:	Behavior COnfirmation	0%
We think we’re better than average in important, subjective, socially desirable things (downward comparison):	Better than Average	0%
More likely to make situational attributions:	Collectivist Culture	0%
Our judgment of objects or people may change depending on what we compare them to:	Contrast effects	0%
the tendency for neutral and irrelevant information to weaken a judgment or impression:	Dilution Effect	0%
The more reasons we can come up with for a behavior, the less certain we are of any single reason:	Discounting Principle	0%
Internal. Actors who saw themselves from the observer’s point of view were more likely to explain their own behavior:	Dispositional attributes	0%
We over estimate how much others agree with us (lateral comparison):	False Consensus Effect	0%
Compliance with small request= compliance with large request:	Foot-in-the-door Phenomenon	0%
More likely to make dispositional attributions:	Individualistic Culture	0%
A mental shortcut; it is a simple, often only approximate, rule or strategy for solving a problem:	Judgmental Heuristic	0%
Personal responsibility and choice means decisions can produce dissonance. Upgrade chosen option and downgrade unchosen one:	Post Decision Dissonance	0%
Many everyday behaviors are automatic (habit), Salient attitudes, Experience=Stronger attitudes:	Potent	0%
We fit into a role- play the behaviors expected as part of that role- and become the role:	Role Playing	0%
Ways of behaving socially that we learn implicitly from culture:	Scripts	0%
Compare with others to inspire myself to do better. o Highly goal-motivated, competitive people likely to make upward comparisons, but upward comparisons can be threatening rather than inspiring:	Self-Improvement	0%
When our attitudes are weak or unclear, the acts we freely commit give us clues about how strongly we feel:	Self-Perception Theory	0%
External. Observers who saw the world from the point of view of the actors were more likely to explain behavior:	Situational attributes	0%
Theory of Planned Behavior:	Specific	0%
Overestimate likelihood of good things happening. Underestimate likelihood of bad things happening:	Unrealistic Optimism	0%

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