PSY220H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Elaboration Likelihood Model, Groupthink, Determinism
Test Questions:
P1:
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy? Give another name for it?
Describe the Robert Rosenthal studies.
Describe the Snyder & Swann studies.
When targets self views are strong what is true?
What is casual attribution?
What is Clever Hans?
Describe Covariation Theory and its three key components?
P2:
Define Social Psychology.
Who was the father of social psychology? Give some background about him.
Define Reciprocal Determinism. Give an example.
Give three key motivational principles.
What are three processing principles. Describe each in depth.
What is the difference between social psychology and sociology?
What are two criticisms of social psychology?
What did Paul Lazarsfeld’s example show?!
What is hindsight bias?
Give six social psychology research methods and describe all of them.
What is the Directionality Problem.
What is the Third Variable Problem
What is internal and external validity? What is the tradeoff between the two?
How is research involving the observation of people in public places different from other types
of research (espc w/h regards to REBs).
What are social norms?!
What is the difference between descriptive and prescriptive social norms?
What are informational and normative influence?
Define Groupthink.
How do social norms form?
Describe Asch’s experiment and importance.
Describe the Sherif study of 1936 as well as its importance.
What is the difference between private and public conformity. Define both.
In terms of conformity how does the type of task change who we trust?
P3:
What percentage of wrongfully convinced people give false confessions (estimate)?
What are 3 types of false confessions. Describe all three.
Describe the process of internalization.
Describe Bern’s self perception theory.
What is Source-Monitoring Confusion?
What did the Kassin & Iechel experiment show us? Describe it
Describe the Kitty Genovse story.
