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• 2 Research methods in social psychology

• 2.2 research strategies

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• Definition of a true randomized experiment

  An experiment in which participants are allocated to the different conditions of the experiment on a random basis

• 2.3 a closer look at experimentation in social psychology

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• Definition of a one-shot case study

  A research design in which observations are made on a group after some event had occurred or some manipulation has been introduced

• Definition of a post-test only control group design

  An experimental design in which participants are randomly allocated to one of two groups: one group is exposed to the independent variable, and the other is not.

• Definition of a interaction effect

  A term used when the combination of two or more independent variables in a factorial experiment yields an effect that differs from the sum of the main effects

• Definition of experimenter expectancy effect

  The effect produced unintentionally by the experimenter that increases the likelihood that participants will confirm the experimenter's hypothesis

• 3 Social perception and attribution

• 3.2 social perception

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• Definition of a central trait

  A dispositional characteristic viewed by social perceivers as integral  to the organization of personality

• Definition of a peripheral trait

  A trait whose perceived presence does not significantly change the overall interpretation of a person's personality

• Definition of implicit personality theory

  An integrated set of ideas held by a social perceiver about how different traits tend to be organized within a person

• Definition of a configural model

  A holistic approach to impression formation, social perceivers, actively construct deeper meanings out of the bits of information that they receive about other people

• Definition of a self-fulfilling prophecy

  When an originally false expectation leads to its own confirmation, a perceiver already has a belief about someone, so that person doesn't try anymore and starts acting as what is expected from them anyway.