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Social psychology |
Is the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to other people. |
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Social cognition |
Is the area of social psychology that explores how people select, interpret, remember , and use social information. ( how individuals think on social situations) |
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Person perception |
Refers to the process by which we use social stimuli to form impressions of others. |
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Two important social cues are: |
The face and attractiveness |
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Stereotype |
A generalization about a groups characteristics that does not consider any variations from one individual to another. |
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What are the componentsbthat makena face attractive? |
Averageness, symmetry and youthfulness. |
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Attribution theory |
The vie that people are motivated to discover the underlying causes of behavior as part of of their effort to make sense of the behavior |
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Three dimensions of attribution |
Internallexternal Stableunstable causes Controlableunvobtrolable causes |
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Internalexternal cause |
Internal attributions include all causes inside and specific to the person, such as his or her traits and abilities. (All causes outside the person, social pressure aspects if the social situation,money and weather) |
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Stableunstable causes |
Is the causes relatively enduring and permanent, or is it temporary ? Did Aaron blow up at his girlfriend because he is a bad guy or was he in a bad mood that daym |
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Controllableuncontrolable causes |
We perceive that people have power over some causes ( for instance by preparing delicious food for a picnic) but not others ( rain on picnic day. |
