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19 Cards in this Set
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What is social psychology?
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Understanding how peoples thoughts feelings and behaviors are influenced by other people
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What is social psychology?
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Emphasize the power of the situation
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Construct vs. Operational Definition
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In order to study abstract things we make specific operational definitions
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The hindsight bias
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after you learn things it's easy to think you knew it ahead of time
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Why cant we infer causality from correlational studies?
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Correlation is not Causation:
Third-variable problem and reverse directionality |
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third-variable
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the association could be caused by the another variable thats not included in the study
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what is random assignment
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randomly assigning people throughout the study, no factors could create a bias
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why do we use random assignment
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it eliminates bias and you can manipulate and eliminate reverse directionality
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what is social perception
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perceptions of other peoples and other cultures
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reverse directionality
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Thin slicing
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snap impressions of people give us the same impression as knowing them long term
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Studies that illustrate thin slicing
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students who were showing small portions of teachers rated the teachers about the same as students who were in the teachers classes
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Darwins argument about facial expressions
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Point of arguing that our facial expressions communicate social setting which are necessary to survival - universal expressions
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Universal emotions
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anger, fear, disgust, happiness, surprise, sadness
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cultural display rules
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implicit norms about how to express emotions vary in different cultures
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real smiles have...
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crinkle around the yes and brows move more
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fake smiles have..
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just cheekbone muscles move
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lie detection are we good or bad at it?
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bad! we pay to little attention to body and voice
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attribution
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causes or explanations for why someone is doing something
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