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Social Psychology 350: Exam 1 Study Guide The exam will consist of mostly multiple-choice questions and a few short answer questions. You will be given 3 days in which to take the exam (1 of which is a late/pay day). The multiple-choice portion of the exam will be scored in the testing center and you will receive your overall test grade in class within a week. No late exams will be permitted so plan ahead. Also, keep in mind that the last exam is given out an hour before the testing center closes. Below is a guide of important concepts covered in your text and class lectures. By no means is this identical to what will be on the exam. Much of the exam will cover important conceptual aspects that were covered both in lecture and the text. However, keep in mind that everything from the book is fair game. If you have any questions please call Chapter 1 - Introducing Social Psychology 1. What is Social Psychology? How is it different from Sociology or Personality Psychology? 2. What is the importance of levels of explanation? 3. How do human values impact Social Psychology? 4. What is the naturalistic fallacy? 5. What is hindsight bias? 6. Know what correlational and experimental research are. How are they different? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? 7. Know the difference between independent and dependent variables 8. Know the importance of random assignment 9. Know what mundane realism, experimental realism, and demand characteristics are. Why are these important? 10. What ethical issues are involved in Social Psychological research? Chapter 2 and lecture- The Self in a Social World 1. Understand self-schemas, self-reference effect, and self-esteem. 2. How reliable is self-knowledge? 3. What cultural differences are there in self-representations (interdependent vs. independent self)? 4. Understand the differences between self-efficacy, self-esteem, locus of control, & learned helplessness. 5. Understand self-serving tendencies: self-serving bias, unrealistic optimism, false consensus and false uniqueness. Why do these exist? How might they be adaptive or maladaptive? 6. Know the various self-presentational strategies: false modesty, self-handicapping, selfmonitoring. 7. Understand how low self-monitors differ from high self-monitors.

Chapter 3 and lecture - Social Beliefs and Judgments 1. What is the fundamental attribution error (FAE)? 2. What is the actor-observer bias (see also chapt. 2)? 3. What is priming, the overconfidence phenomenon, and confirmation bias? 4. What are heuristics? What is the difference between the representative and availability heuristics? 5. Know what illusory correlation, illusions of control, regression toward the mean are. 6. Understand the research on self-fulfilling beliefs and behavioral confirmation. 7. Jones and Davis' Correspondent Inference theory 8. Kelley's Covariation model - understand distinctiveness, consensus, and consistency. Also understand the role of augmenting and discounting. Chapter 4 & 7 and lecture on Attitudes, Attitude Change, & Persuasion 1. Be able to identify the components of Attitudes 2. Know the research findings on the relationship between attitudes and behavior 3. Know the conditions under which attitudes predict behavior 4. Know the evidence for when behavior determine attitudes a. Foot in the door phenomenon b. Low-ball technique 5. Know how learning plays a role in attitudes (classical conditioning, operant conditioning, modeling, direct experience) 6. Know the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), the 2 routes to persuasion, and how this relates to attitude change 7. Know Cognitive Dissonance theory and Self Perception Theory 8. Know the impediments to attitude change 9. Under what conditions would fear be persuasive? 10. What are the 3 elements of persuasion that social psychologists study? 11. Under what conditions would credibility and attractiveness be most useful in persuasion? 12. How does mood influence attitude change and persuasion? 13. Know when one-sided vs. two-sided arguments are more persuasive. Chapter 5— and lecture on Gender, Genes, & Culture 1. Know the difference between “sex” and “gender” 2. Know what research indicates on differences between males and females (e.g., aggression, sexuality, etc). 3. Know to what extent there are gender similarities vs. gender differences. 4. Be able to distinguish between the cultural perspective and the evolutionary perspective in terms of explaining gender differences 5. Know the hindsight criticism of evolutionary psychology...