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13 Cards in this Set
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Social Psychology |
the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations |
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Channel Factors |
certain situational circumstances that appear unimportant on the surface that can have great consequences for behavior, either facilitating or blocking it or guiding behavior in a particular direction |
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Dispositions |
internal factors, such as beliefs,values, personality traits, or abilities, that guide a person's behavior |
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Fundamental Attribution Error |
the failure to recognize the important of situational influences on behavior, together with he tendency to overemphasize the importance of dispositions or traits on behavior |
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Construal |
interpretation and inference about the stimuli or situations we confront |
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Gestalt Psychology |
based on the German word, Gestalt, meaning "form" or "figure", this approach stresses the fact that objects are perceived not by means of some automatic registering device but by the active, usually unconscious, interpretation of what the object represents as a whole |
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Prisoner's Dilemma |
A situation involving payoffs of two people in which trust and cooperation lead to higher joint payoffs than mistrust and defection. The game gets its name from the dilemma that would confront two criminals who were involved in a crime together and are being held an questioned separately. Each must decide whether to "cooperate" and stick with a prearranged alibi or "defect" and confess to the crime in the hope of lenient treatment |
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Schemas |
generalized knowledge about the physical and social world and how to behave in particular situations and with different kinds of people |
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Stereotypes |
schemas that we have for people of various kinds that can be applied to judgements about people and decisions about how to interact with them |
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Natural Selection |
an evolutionary process that molds animals and plants such that traits that enhance the probability of survival and reproduction are passed on to subsequent generations |
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Theory of Mind |
the understanding that other people have belief and desires |
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Parental Investment |
the evolutionary principle that costs and benefits are associated with reproduction and the nurturing of offspring. Because these costs and benefits are different for males and females, one sex will normally value and invest more in each child than will the other sex |
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Independent (Individualistic) Cultures |
cultures in which people tend to think of themselves as distinct social entities, tied to each other by voluntary bonds of affection and organizational memberships but essentially separate from other people and having attributes that exist in the obscene of any connection to others |
