[PSYSOCI] Midterms - 5th Part

Social psychology primarily studies:

• Economic trends

• Personality traits

• An individual's social behavior

• Brain development

According to Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis, behavior is motivated by:

• Environmental factors

• Internal drives and unresolved conflicts

• Social norms

• Cognitive processing

Behaviorism focuses on how behavior is shaped by:

• Genetics

• The environment and past learning

• Unconscious motives

• Emotional intelligence

Gestalt psychology suggests that people perceive objects as:

• Isolated parts

• Dynamic wholes

• Separated fragments

• Fixed patterns

Which theory emphasizes learning by observing and imitating others?

• Classical conditioning

• Social learning theory (Albert Bandura)

• Psychoanalysis

• Cognitive dissonance theory

Cognitive theories in social psychology suggest that behavior depends on:

• How a person perceives their social situation

• Reinforcements

• Genetic predispositions

• Social roles

The principle of organization refers to the idea that people:

• Separate objects from their background

• Group and categorize objects in meaningful ways

• Isolate individual stimuli

• Ignore irrelevant stimuli

Social perception research focuses on:

• How people create social norms

• How people perceive and encode social information

• How people learn from reinforcement

• Testing cause-and-effect relationships

Decision-making theories are concerned with:

• Emotional responses

• Weighing rewards and costs to make choices

• Observational learning

• Childhood experiences

Expectancy-value theory suggests that decisions are based on:

• Immediate consequences

• The value of possible outcomes and their likelihood of happening

• Emotional drives

• Unconscious motives