PSY 625 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Terror Management Theory, Social Representation, Affective Forecasting
8 Apr 2015
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Social psychology: the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. Social neuroscience: an interdisciplinary field that explores the neural bases of social and emotional processes and behaviors, and how these processes and behaviors affect our brain and biology. Vulture: the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. Social representations: a society"s widely held ideas and values, including assumptions and cultural ideologies. Our social representations help us make sense of our world. Hindsight bias: the tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one"s ability to have foreseen how something turned out. Theory: an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events. Hypothesis: a testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events. Field research: research done in natural, real-life settings outside the lab. Correlational research: the study of the naturally occurring relationships among variables.
