Applied Social Psychology Exam

Applied Social Psychology Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) Purpose of applied social psych - Correct Answers ✅draws on theories and methodologies from social psychology to understand and alleviate social and practical problems social psychology - Correct Answers ✅The scientific study of how people think about, feel about, influence and relate to one another.Social psychologists are interested in the interplay between personality and situational influences.

• key components of scientific inquiry? - Correct Answers

✅1. Theory guides predictions

• Establish methods that allow your ideas to be refuted or

supported (key components include gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence)

• Conduct research in such a way that it can replicated
• things needed to infer causality - Correct Answers

✅Variables must be related-correlation IV must come before DV-time order Must manipulate IV and control extraneous variables--non- spurious How does ingroup-outgroup bias develop--3 ways - Correct Answers ✅Social Learning (classical conditioning, modeling) 1 / 4

Applied Social Psychology Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) Simply see yourself as part of a particular group (class divided) Competition (Robber's Cave Experiment) "class divided" example - Correct Answers ✅divided a class in blue eyes brown eyes and children saw ingroup as better that out group because teacher said so Robber's Cave experiment - Correct Answers ✅1. Group formation-divided campers up arbitrarily

• introduced conflict-set up competition between groups
• reduce conflict with-superordinate goal
• ways to use a multimethod approach - Correct Answers

✅1. Use various types of assessments including, for example, self-report, behavioral, physiological

• Use multiple levels of analysis
• Use interdisciplinary approaches

Triangulation/methodological pluralism - Correct Answers ✅use of multiple measures in a single study Applied social psychology focuses on 2 steps-- - Correct Answers ✅1. Developing a scientific understanding of social and practical problems 2 / 4

Applied Social Psychology Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers)

• Drawing on that understanding to design interventions to

ameliorate (to make something bad,better) and/or alleviate societal and/or personal issues

• key ways intergroup conflict develops - Correct Answers

✅1. social learning

• conflict
• simply establishing groups
• Core values of research methods--5 things you need to be a

scientist - Correct Answers ✅1. accuracy

• objectivity
• skepticism
• open-mindedness
• ethics
• goals/steps of understanding a phenomenon - Correct

Answers ✅1. description-describing the phenomenon

• prediction-correlation
• determining causality-causality
• explanation-why the phenomenon occurs
• control-being able to manipulate conditions that will cause

changes in behavior 3 / 4

Applied Social Psychology Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) intergroup attitude - Correct Answers ✅a persons attitude toward a group to which they do not belong in-group/out-group bias - Correct Answers ✅in-group members tend to evaluate and relate to the in-group more favorably than the out-group experimental control - Correct Answers ✅being able to manipulate conditions that will cause changes in a phenomenon milgrim experiment - Correct Answers ✅shocl participants- 65% shocked the person to death individual differences - Correct Answers ✅characteristics or qualities of people--important that social psychologists do recognize people have these--this may explain why 35% didn't shock people to death interactive relationship between social and personal influences on behavior - Correct Answers ✅situations may have different effect on different people external attributions vs internal attributions - Correct Answers ✅explain behavior by focusing on factor's in the persons social environment vs explain behavior by focuing on factors within the person

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