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13 Cards in this Set
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Social Psychology |
the scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people |
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Construal |
the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world |
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Individual Differences |
the aspects of people's personalities that make them different from others |
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Fundamental Attribution Error |
tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behaviour stems from personality traits and to underestimate the role of situational factors |
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Behaviourism |
a school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behaviour, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment |
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Gestalt Psychology |
school of psych stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people's minds, rather than the objective physical attributes of the object |
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Social Cognition |
how people think about themselves and the social world, specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social info |
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what are the dominant theoretical perspectives in social psych? |
situationalism and social cognition |
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Situationalism |
power of the situation |
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“Halo” / “horns” effect |
when a positive/negative global impression bleeds over into judgments of specific traits |
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Scientific Empiricism |
systematic pursuit of knowledge through observation |
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Confirmation bias |
tendency to seek out and favour evidence that confirms one’s belief/theory/hypothesis, while ignoring or discounting evidence that contradicts it |
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Paradigms in science |
a set of unquestioned assumptions that guide: • what kinds of questions scientists ask • what evidence they attend to and prioritize • what methods they use to collect evidence • how they interpret the generated data |
