Social Psychology Study Guide

Test #1

Chapter 1-2: Introduction

What is the difference between social psychology and sociology?

Definition of social psychology

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Experimental vs. Correlational methods

Ethics

Individualism vs. Collectivism

Hot vs. Cold Perspectives

The Crisis of Confidence (History)

The historical figures in social psych.

The progression of the history of social psych (how did it change over time?)

Debates in social Psych

What kinds of training and jobs do social psychologists have?

general idea of the video on the first day

The Self

The I and Me (not too specific here--just know that they ARE different, and how)

Mead's belief on how the self develops

            stages of development (think of examples)

James' Idea of self as a process of Identification

            categories of "me" and differences between them

Self-Esteem

Self-concept

Types of self-concept statements (physical, social, attributive, and global)

TST (Twenty statements Test)

            --what is the TST known for?

            --how did the results of the TST change since it was devised?

Schema

Spontaneous self-concept

Ingroups vs. Outgroups

Basking in Reflected Glory

Cutting of reflected failure

Unexamined ethnic identity

How does the ethnic identity of minority groups differ from ingroups and outgroups

The effects of self-knowledge organization on self -esteem

Self awareness in humans and in primates

            --when does it develop?

            --private vs. public

Self-consciousness

Effects of public and private self awareness and self-consciousness

How does self-consciousness affect vulnerability to illness?

Self-esteem

            --how does it effect your evaluation of positive information?

            --how does it affect risk taking?

How does self-evaluation change in social relationships (ex., my mom's friend's children)

Downward and upward comparisons

Affirmations

Strategic vs. Authentic presentations--types of strategic presentations

What happens when you get embarrassed

Self-handicapping

Self-monitoring

Social Perception

Characteristics of impression formation

What types of things do you rely on to make impressions?

Social categorization

stereotyping

Nonverbal behavioral cues--some examples of each

Lying:  how can you spot a liar?  What do most people think indicates deception?

Heider's Naive Psychology

Averaging vs. Additive model

Implicit personality Theory

False Consensus

Positivity vs. negativity bias

Primacy vs. recency effects

3 dimensions of Causal experience (can you give examples?)

Kelley's Covariation model (dimensions), principles

Correspondent Inference Theory (and rules)

Fundamental Attribution Error

            -perceptual salience

Actor-Observer Effect

Self-serving Bias

Heuristics

            --representative

            --availability

*The test will consist of 52 multiple choice questions graded out of 50 (or 104 points out of   100).

*It won't be as bad as it looks on the study guide.  If you were in a psych of adjustment class of mine, however, this test will be more difficult than those.   I will be likely to give examples and ask you to identify them so application of the principle is important.

*Remember to read the chapter summaries--I usually don't use a test question if I can't think up the answer immediately myself.

*This study guide is not inclusive of everything (but everything that I could think up at the time).

* If it was in the lecture, I'm more likely to use it on the test but that doesn't mean that stuff that I didn't use in the lecture WON'T be on the test.