PSYCH 221 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Exchange Theory, Social Facilitation, Interpersonal Attraction
12 Aug 2016
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People"s evaluations of their own self-worth that is, the extent to which they view themselves as good, competent, and decent: social cognition be accurate. How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions. Chapter 2: methodology: empirical science, know the 3 methods. Definition the technique whereby a researcher observes people and systematically records measurements or impressions of their behavior. A form of the observational method in which the researcher examines the accumulated documents, or archives, of a culture (ex: diaries, novels, magazines, and newspapers) Definition the technique whereby two or more variables are systematically measured and the relationship between them (i. e. how much one can be predicted from the other) is assessed. Research in which a representative sample of people are asked (often anonymously) questions about their attitudes or behavior.
