Deck 1: Introduction: Adaptive Motives for Social Situations, Via Cultures and Brains

Question 1

What is the classic definition of social psychology?

Answer 1

the scientific attempt to explain how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others

Question 2

The scientific belief in the significance of context in shaping people's thoughts, feelings and behaviors is known as what?
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Answer 2

situationism

Question 3

What are three reasons for which social psychology emphasizes social situations in accounting for people's behaviors?

Answer 3

personality is complex enough to warrant its own subfield
- people rely too much on personality in explaining behavior
- people underestimate the power of situations in explaining behavior

Question 4

According to evolutionary psychology, what is the term used to emphasize the idea that some social groups survive better than others?

Question 5

What are the five core social motives?

Question 6

Which core social motive underlies the other four?

Question 7

Which core social motive comprises people's desire to make sense of their environment in order to predict what will happen next?

Question 8

When people attempt to make sense of their world, they often share their theories with other people, in an effort to reach agreement. What is another name for these shared understandings?

Question 9

Which core social motive most represents a need for strong, stable relationships?

Question 10

Trauma caused by other people, such as rape, poses a grave threat to which core social motive?

Question 11

Which core social motive corresponds to White's (1959) concept of effectance?

Question 12

Which core social motive includes the need to maintain self-esteem?

Question 13

The need to perceive the social world as a benevolent place reflects which core social motive?

Question 14

In general, cultural psychologists describe North American and European countries as more _____.

Question 15

On average, cultural psychologists identify Asian, African, and South American cultures as more _____.

Question 16

The statement, "Sometimes when I am with others, I seem to lose track of what I personally want" reflects which cultural phenomenon?

Question 17

Sherif's (1935) experiment involving the autokinetic effect demonstrated the power of which general social psychological phenomena?

Question 18

Which branch of psychology takes into account Darwinian notions of inheritance and applies them to the design of the mind?

Question 19

Cultures that tend to emphasize power differentials between those at the top and bottom of a hierarchy are said to have high ____.

Question 20

What is the social psychology term for all the action in communication that is made without works?