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The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another.  We construct our social reality  Our social intuitions are often powerful but sometimes perilous  Social influences shape our behavior, often outside our awareness  Personal attitudes and dispositions can shape behavior  But attitudes and dispositions are subject to social influence  Social behavior is also biological behavior  Social psychology’s principles are applicable to everyday life and other disciplines

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Created by: tim.zhaotianqi

Number of Blossarys: 40

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The process of assigning participants to the conditions of an experiment such that all persons have the same chance of being a give condition.

Domain: Psychology; Catégorie: Social psychology

These are variables that are hypothesized to cause an effect, but are characteristics of the participants and not something to which they can easily be randomly assigned.

Domain: Psychology; Catégorie: Social psychology

These are variables that are hypothesized to be affected by the IVs and the PVs. The experimenter believes that this variable depends on the levels of the IVs or PVs. These are also known as the ...

Domain: Psychology; Catégorie: Social psychology

These are variables that are hypothesized to cause an effect. Participants are usually randomly assigned to the various levels of the Independent Variable.

Domain: Psychology; Catégorie: Social psychology

The way a question or an issue is posed; framing can influence people’s decisions and expressed opinions. Eg: 30% fat vs 70% leans.

Domain: Psychology; Catégorie: Social psychology

Survey procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion.

Domain: Psychology; Catégorie: Social psychology

When two variables correlate, any combination of three explanations is possible. Either one may cause the other, or both may be affected by an underlying “third factor”.

Domain: Psychology; Catégorie: Social psychology

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Great Blossary. This would be great for another architects terminology Blossary. We can't stop ourselves from dropping a few psychology terms into discussions.

03:38, 28 January 2015
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