The fact that none of us are alone in the world – that we are all affected by others and, in turn, affect others – is the emphasis of the study of ________.

Shortly after she gets to her new college 2,500 miles from home, Tomasa goes to the school's activity fair to find some groups to join. She immediately signs up to audition for two different musical clubs, which are her interest. Her desire to join these groups may help to satisfy her need to _______.

Complementary views for assessing and understanding a phenomenon in psychology are referred to as levels of ________, and they range from the most general to the most specific.

John is testing the effects of exercise on mood. He defines exercise as the number of steps a person takes in a day, and he measures it with a special watch that participants wear. What did John do to the variable “exercise”?

In social psychological studies involving deception, sometimes a person who appears to be a participant is actually working for the researcher. What is this person called?

One commonly-used test of nonconscious bias is the

Historical or publicly-available data is often used for what type of research?

What type of research design shows that two variables are related to one another, but not that one causes the other?

Hailey wants to control the variables in her study as much as possible. She does not want any extraneous variables to affect her results. What type of study should Hailey use?

The field of ________ emphasizes methods that focus on the brain to understand how we think and act toward other people.

The area of social psychological that focuses on how people think about others and about the social world is called social __________.

How is it that schemas help people save time as they have new experiences or encounter new people or objects on a daily basis?

The ________ heuristic is one in which the likelihood of an object belonging to a category is evaluated based on the extent to which the object appears similar to one’s mental conceptualization of the category.

Which of the following is an example of the planning fallacy?

A(n) __________ is a psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a target with a degree of favor or disfavor.

Whenever he travels to Denver for business meetings, Calvin notices that he gets bad headaches that don't go away until he returns home to Toronto. He assumes that it is just the travel that causes his migraines, but he does not consider that the elevation change and atmospheric pressure might be at fault. Calvin is making incorrect ________ conclusions about his headaches.

The likelihood that a research finding was due to random chance rather than being due to an actual observed change is called the __-value.

The extent to which we can infer that findings with a sample will be true of the larger population from which it was drawn is referred to as _________.

When researchers take special care to include and control for every possible variable, the study is likely to have high ___________, even though the results may not generalize to a more realistic situation.

The degree to which a study ensures that potential findings apply to settings and samples other than the ones being studied refers to:

As a researcher, you decide that you are very interested in peoples’ everyday behavior (i.e., daily social interactions and activities). Therefore, you decide to use an electronically activated recorder, or EAR device, to capture the acoustic diary of participants’ days as they naturally unfold. In this scenario, you are:

Dr. Fikshunal is interested in how our bodies respond to being excluded from a group. Therefore, she decides to monitor the heart rate and cortisol levels of participants as they engage in their environment and indicate experiences when they felt ostracized. In this scenario, Dr. Fikshunal is:

Some scholars refer to a person's theory of ________ as either “mentalizing” or “mind reading.”

On their first date, Brendan and Jonathan are sitting at a table getting to know each other. When Brendan leans in and rests his elbows on the table, Jonathan does the same thing without even realizing it. When Jonathan scratches his face, Brendan reaches up and adjusts his glasses without recognizing how he is copying the behaviors. These are examples of _________.

When two people are directing their awareness to the same object and are aware that they are both attending to it, this is called ________.

Which of the following actions from a child would exemplify having a sense of self as a social actor?

A __________ narrative is a life story that affirms one’s transformation from suffering to an elevated status or state.

Over time, species can evolve new traits and behaviors that increase reproductive success. These are called _________.

Fitness in evolutionary psychology refers to:

Lonnie needs to make a long business trip back to Minnesota but is uncertain of when to leave. According to the weather report, there is a big storm starting that he may encounter. The cost of deciding to leave later will make him late for his meeting but the cost to leave too early might put him in a car accident on the slippery roads. Which theory would predict that because of evolution, Lonnie would choose the less costly or dangerous option and leave later in the day to avoid the storm?