1. Social identity theory has three key components.  Social is when we decide which group of people we would like to be a part of.  Once we join that group, we begin to take on the traits and behaviours of this group.  This is called social . Finally, in order to boost our self-esteem, we engage in social , deciding that our group is better than the out-group.

2. According to Bandura, the first stage of social cognitive theory is .

3. One of the problems of studying aggression is the operationalization of the variable.  If we are not careful, then our measurement is not precise and the study may suffer from low validity.

4. When a study has high validity, it often has low ecological validity.

5. In the study of the cult carried out by Festinger, he carried out a observation - that is, the participants were not aware that they were being observed.  In addition, Festinger joined the group, making this a observation.  Finally, the study was done in the day-to-day environment of the cult; therefore, it was a observation.

6.  Joy et al carried out a study to see how the introduction of television would affect the aggression levels of children in Northern McMurdo. The research method was a  .

7. When we learn our own culture, we call this .  Learning another culture is called .  When we reject our own culture and take on the behavioural norms of the new culture, this is called .  When we reject our own culture but are discriminated against in the new culture, this is an example of .

8. Huesmann and Eron (1986) carried out a  study, monitoring children’s behaviour over a 15-year period. They found a correlation between the number of hours of violence watched on television by elementary school children and the level of aggression demonstrated when they were teenagers. Since the study is correlational, one of the problems with this study is that it suffers from .

9. There are several potential origins of stereotypes.  Perceiving a relationship between variables (typically people and behaviors) even when no such relationship exists is called an

10. One effect of stereotyping is stereotype threat, where an individual experiences anxiety which may impair performance.

11. Allport and Postman found that stereotypes may lead to