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| The scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by other people. |
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| Scientific explanation that connects and organizes existing observations and suggests fruitful paths for fututre research |
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| Sociocultural perspective |
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| The theoretical viewpoint that searches for the causes of social behavior in influences from larger social groups. |
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| A rule or expectation for appropriate social behavior. |
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| The beliefs, customs, habits, and language shared by the people living in a particular time and place |
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| A theoretical viewpoint that searches for the causes of social behavior in the physical and psychological perdespositions that helped our ancestors survive and reproduce. |
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| The process by which characterestics that help animals survive and reproduce are passed on to their offspring. |
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| A characteristic that is well designed for survival and reproduction in a particular environment. |
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| Social learning perspective |
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| A theoretical viewpoint that focuses on past learning experiences as deterrminants of a person's social behaviors. |
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| Social cognitive perspective |
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| A theoretical viewpoint that focuses on the mental processes involved in paying attention to, interpreting, and remembering social experiences. |
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| Features or characterestics that individuals carry into social situations |
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| Environmental events or circumstances outside the person |
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| A researcher's prediction about what he or she will find. |
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| Procedure for measuring or recording behaviors, thoughts, and feelings in their natural state (including naturalistic observations, case studies, archival studies, and surveys). |
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| Procedure for uncovering casual processes by systematically manipulating some aspect of a situation. |
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| Recording everyday behaviors as they unfold in their natural settings. |
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Error introduced into measurement when an observer overemphasizes behaviors he or she expects to find and fails to notice behaviors he or she does not expect. |
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| An intensive examination of an individual or group. |
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| The extent to which the findings of a particular research study extend to other similar circumstances or cases. |
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| Examination of systimatic data originally collected for other purposes (such as marriage licence or arrest records) |
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| A technique in which the researcher asks people to report on their beliefs, feelings, or behaviors. |
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| The tendency for people to say what they believe is appropriate or acceptable. |
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| A group of respondents having characterestics that match those of teh larger population the researcher wants to describe. |
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| Instruments for assessing a person's abilities, cognitions, motivations, or behaviors. |
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| The consistency of the score yielded by a psychological test. |
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| The extent to which a test measures what it is designed to measure. |
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| The extent to which two or more variables are associated to one another. |
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| A mathematical expression of the relationship between two variables. |
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| A research method in which a researcher sets out to systematically manipulate one source of influence while holding others constant. |
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| The variable that manipulated by the experimenter. |
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| The variable measured by the experimenter. |
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| The practice of assigning participants to treatments so each person has an equal chance of being in any condition. |
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| The extent to which an axperiment allows confident statements about cause and effect. |
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| A variable that systematically changes along with the independent variable, potentially leading to a mistaken conclusion about the effect of the independent variable. |
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| The extent to which the results of an experiment can be generalized to other circumstances. |
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| Cue that makes participants aware of how the experimenter expects them to behave. |
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| The manipulation of independent variables using unknown participants in natural settings. |
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| A discussion of procedures, hypotheses, and participant reactions at the completion of the study. |
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