20 Questions
Which branch of psychology investigates the potential role of genetic factors in human behavior?
Evolutionary psychology
What is the focus of social psychology in terms of predicting human behavior?
Predicting future behavior
In the Wall Street Game V.Community Game study, what were the two games specifically called?
Wall Street Game, Community Game
What does social neuroscience aim to explore?
The neural and physiological bases of social and emotional behavior
Which psychological event is also considered a biological event?
Social influence
What are the principles of contemporary social psychology emphasizing?
The power of the situation
What do psychological processes shared by most people make them susceptible to?
Social influence
What does reliability yield in social psychology?
Reliable information
What is the key focus of personality psychology?
Private, internal functioning and individual differences
What are the core components of the scientific method in social psychology?
Systematic observation, measurement, experimentation, and formulation
What type of validity refers to the extent to which a measure assesses all aspects of the construct it is supposed to measure?
Content validity
Which method of data collection involves examining accumulated documents or archives of a culture?
Archival analysis
In which type of observation method does the observer interact with the people being observed?
Naturalistic observation
What is the technique where a researcher cues the behaviors of interest and observes participants' responses in a laboratory?
Structured observation
What type of research involves a representative sample of people being asked questions about their thoughts, feelings, and behavior?
Survey methods
What tendency refers to the exaggeration of one’s ability to have foreseen an outcome after learning about it?
Hindsight bias
What do we call an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events?
Theory
In experimental research, what gives confidence to the researcher that any later difference would be caused by the treatment manipulation?
Random assignment
Which principle states that values influence research topics, analysis of data, forming concepts, and labeling?
Values principle
What type of social psychology principle emphasizes that our susceptibility to intuitions can be costly?
Implicit ways principle
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