Test 1 Outline 2024 PDF

Test 1 – Test Outline Our first test is based on the material we covered from Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 5. While there is a lot of overlap, the focus is on the material we discussed in class. Chapter 1 Description of Social Psychology - History - Definition Underlying themes of the textbook * - Person...

Test 1 – Test Outline Our first test is based on the material we covered from Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 5. While there is a lot of overlap, the focus is on the material we discussed in class. Chapter 1 Description of Social Psychology - History - Definition Underlying themes of the textbook * - Person and situation - The ABCs of social psychology (affect, behaviour, and cognition) - Self-concern v other concern (a bit) - Norms and Culture (Individualistic v Collectivistic) - cognitive effort How can SP be a science? Why do we study it? - Is it just Common Sense? - Hindsight Bias - Confirmation bias Scientific Method - Theories - Operational Definitions - Methodologies - Observation - Correlation - Experimentation - Ethics (deception) Chapter 2 What is Social Cognition? (schemas) How do we gain Social Knowledge? - Operant - Classical - Observational Schemas as Social Knowledge - Self-fulfilling Prophecy - Reduction of cognitive effort - Auto vs. controlled thinking (system 1 or 2) - Salience and cognitive accessibility (more themes) - Heuristics - Representativeness (and conjunction fallacy and gambler’s fallacy) - Availability - False consensus & false uniqueness - Anchoring heuristic - Planning fallacy Social Cognition and Affect - Facial feedback - Affective heuristic - Framing effects – loss aversion - Forecasting Happiness Chapter 3 The Self - Cognitive Component: the self-concept - Self-schema - Self-reference effect - Accessibility (awareness or consciousness) - Deindividuation - Self-knowledge - Do we know ourselves? - Biases in self knowledge - Overconfidence bias & the Dunning-Kruger effect - Optimism bias (it won’t happen to me) Self-esteem: the evaluation of self - Explicit v implicit - Cultural differences - Self-efficacy vs unrealistic optimism - Why high self-esteem? Social Self – Social Identity - social comparison - BIRGing & CORFing Self-Presentation - self-monitoring - false modesty & handicapping Chapter 5 Person Perception – automatic Nonverbal Cultural differences Negativity bias Deception detection (not great at it) Attribution: trying to explain behaviour Internal/external** Global/specific Stable/unstable Biases: FAE, Actor-Observer, Self-serving Pessimistic attribution style (inc learned helplessness)